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Posted by on Mar 29th, 2006 | 2 comments

Activate the Park

First year interaction design students at the Ontario College of Art & Design are having an event tomorrow afternoon and you’re invited. Between three and six o’clock they are activating the park underneath Toronto’s landmark OCAD building (100 McCaul Street) with some interventions which sound pretty fun. Don’t be a loser. Go check it out. It will help you alleviate your cabin fever...
Posted by on Feb 22nd, 2006 | 1 comment

Document Icons

Document Icons
Amber Frid-Jimenez, Philip DeCamp and Deb Roy over at the MIT Media Laboratory have whipped up this project they call Document Icons. Essentially it generates radial histograms of document collections which highlight salient themes. This allows users to visually scan icons representative of large datasets and quickly find the most relevant ...
Posted by on Nov 24th, 2005 | 0 comments

The Flight of the Moose

Steve Bond’s Spruce Moose flew for seven glorious seconds and thoroughly schooled all competition thus proving it to be the ultimate paper plane design.Young engineering students work out how to 1up each other with their designs looking for inspiration from jets, birds, et cetera. You don’t have to go through all that trouble though. Just follow this guide of sixteen easy...
Posted by on Aug 29th, 2005 | 2 comments

Inspiration versus Imitation. Round 2005. Fight!

Discussions about intellectual property rights are the new discussions about politics and religion. This round sees Architecture getting pulled down into the frey. There are so many schools of thought on architectural referencing, lineage, typology, and influence but now the intellectual property police have been called in so you’d better cut that out and start innovating – or...
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