My Weekend On Series 40

September 22nd, 2009 by Tom Armitage · 6 Comments

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Taking my iPhone to a music festival didn’t really seem like the most sensible idea: a capacitive touchscreen in a potentially muddy field? A battery that only just lasts a day? It’s not exactly suited to the wilderness, not to mention a little fragile.
At the same time: it’s exactly the place that connectivity comes in [...]

RFID icons

October 2nd, 2007 by Schulze · 2 Comments

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Earlier this year we hosted a workshop for Timo Arnall’s Touch project. This was a continuation of the brief I set my students late last year, to design an icon or series of icons to communicate the use of RFID technology publicly. The students who took on the work wholeheartedly delivered some early results which [...]

Japanese repair culture and distributed manufacture

January 9th, 2007 by Matt Webb · 5 Comments

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I’ve just finished Cities by John Reader, on the history of cities, and it’s chock full of information and great stories.

This story, on Japanese manufacture, is lengthy but so good I have to quote it in full:
Bicycles were extremely popular in Japanese cities at the end of the nineteenth century, when the import of goods [...]

RFID Interim update

December 22nd, 2006 by Schulze · Comments Off

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Last term during an interim crit, I saw the work my students had produced on the RFID icons brief I set some weeks ago. It was a good afternoon and we were lucky enough to have Timo Arnall from the Touch project and Younghee Jung from Nokia Japan join us and contribute to the discussion. [...]

Drawing phones

October 5th, 2006 by Schulze · 2 Comments

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Hello.
I think I’m mostly going to post drawings from my sketchbooks, and talk around those for a while. Since a lot of my thinking starts like this. My sketchbooks are also places where I put ideas that would be too difficult to make, so they just get drawn instead.
I think phones mostly used to look [...]

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