In December, we showed Mag+, a digital magazine concept produced with our friends at Bonnier. Late January, Apple announced the iPad. So today Popular Science, published by Bonnier and the largest science+tech magazine in the world, is launching Popular Science+ — the first magazine on the Mag+ platform, and you can get it on the [...]
It’s Easter break in the UK – a pair of public holidays on Friday and Monday that give us a long weekend – and so we’re off for a few days. To send you on your way: some pictures and films, presented with citation and links, but without comment. Have a happy Easter. Eyke Volkmer’s [...]
Timo Arnall has been working with us in the studio this week. He made this. It’s super lovely. Bigger here. Thank you Timo!
I’ve got something I want to share with you. We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles. Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy [...]
This image is a photographic mapping of the readable volume of a radio field from an RFID reader. The black component in the image is an RFID reader, similar to the component inside the yellow part of the oyster card reader. The camera has been fixed in its position and the reader photographed. Using a [...]
Last week Timo and I finished filming and editing Nearness. Earlier in the year BERG was commissioned by AHO/Touch to produce a series of explorations into designerly applications for RFID (more to come on what that means). Over the coming weeks BERG will be sharing the results of the work here and on the Touch [...]
When I wrote about Text In The World over on my personal blog a few weeks ago, our colleague Matt Jones left a comment: “preparing us for AR” (augmented reality) And this got me thinking about the ways that design and media can educate us about what future technologies might be like, or prepare us [...]
You get used to the Here & There projection really fast. Timo Arnall, friend of S&W, was talking to Jack: I’ve been sitting here staring at the map, pretty much on and off since yesterday. It comes across as a totally natural projection! … it’s as if you have wired two separate bits of my [...]
vod:pod is the newest video sharing and aggregator site on the block, and it has a few twists. Three of them: First, the primary focus is a video collection (a pod) rather than a single one. Collecting can be done by individuals or together. So, for example, here are 4 people collecting indie music. You [...]
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