http://folksonomy.co/?rss=18 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:51:31 +1000 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:51:31 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3321 R eacute alis eacute principalement par Pierre Jaquet-Droz l Ecrivain est le plus compliqu eacute des trois m eacute canismes Assis devant un pupitre l automate tient une plume d oie quoil trempe dans l encrier puis il la secoue l eacute g egrave rement avant de commencer de dessiner les lettres sur le papier Gr acirc ce agrave un m eacute canisme annexe ses yeux suivent son travail L Ecrivain est capable de tracer un texte de 40 signes au maximum r eacute partis sur quatre lignes La principale invention de son m eacute canisme est le syst egrave me de programmation par disque qui lui permet d eacute crire des textes suivis sans intervention ext eacute rieure Il est eacute galement possible de lui faire eacute crire n importe quelle phrase lettre par lettre Mus eacute e d art et d histoire de Neuch acirc tel A robotic draftsman which is able to write through following a programmable sequence of letters http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3321 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:51:31 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3315 HandBrake is an open-source GPL-licensed multiplatform multithreaded video transcoder available for MacOS X Linux and Windows Convert from many common multimedia file formats including unprotected DVD or BluRay sources to a handful of modern output file formats http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3315 Mon, 27 May 2013 12:12:06 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3293 Politecnico di Milano in order to present the School of Design in its own stand at Salone del Mobile 2013 asked DensityDesign to realize a 4 mt x 2 mt poster showing the structure and the efficiency of the School of Design system at Politecnico The visualization is a picture of the 2010 2011 academic year We began with the visualization of the figures related to students On the left side you can start following the students path from the admission test to their bachelor degree which is connected to data related to the type of contract one year after graduation data referred to a 2010 survey We decided to integrate the visualization with information related to credits distribution Every circle is a course of study and shows its typology of exams theoretical courses labs etc with related C F U university course credits Inside it is shown the average of earned credits by students every year In the right side you can see the same data related to master degree We also visualized how many teachers each department gives to the school of design The poster has been completed with information about PhDs technical and research labs and the number of students for each school of Politecnico The poster was realized in one week by Gabriele Calvi and Sara De Donno with the supervision of Michele Mauri Sara De Donno 24 April 2013 Density Design http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3293 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:56:40 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3269 Fredrik Gertten profiles two idealistic young female entrepreneurs who created a revolutionary 21st-century design object everyone told them would be impossible to fashion Focus Forward Films 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3269 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:30:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3248 DESIGNERS ENJOY DESIGNING The practicalities of the design-based Ph D or Ph D s generally in the creative arts often fails to recognise the wider needs of the researcher who would typically have bachelors and masters degrees in their field and where the structure of their degree programme s would have been practice-based i e they have considerable prior history of creative practice they enjoy creative practice and they may well miss the fulfilment of creative practice if none was undertaken during a three to five year full time Ph D STUDENTS NEED TUTORS THAT CAN DESIGN Practice-based learning at undergraduate and masters level requires a significant taught input by competent practitioners It is all too common for academics to loose or fail to develop capability in practice as they move through an academic career that is based on teaching and research The typical route by which full-time academics with a practitioner background acquire a Ph D is through part-time study In order to maintain competence as a practitioner for the benefit of students there is a case to encourage the use of practice in staff Ph D s RESEARCH OUTCOMES NEED DESIGNING An unexpected outcome from the author s experience of Ph D supervision in creative disciplines has been the scenario where professional practice was necessary for the progress of the research Tools are a popular and relevant outcome from design-based Ph D s and situations arise where the tool itself must be designed in order to facilitate its validation It is therefore necessary to consider the use of researcher-practice where practice is not a direct means of the data collection but a process by which research outcomes can progress to validation Mark Evans p 75 2009 Evans M 2009 Creative professional practice in methods and methodology case study examples from Ph Dos in industrial design EKSIG 2009 Experiential Knowledge Method amp Methodology Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3248 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:16:29 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3207 When that Apple II came out it really could do nothing It could show text and after we waited a bit we had these things called images Remember when images were first possible with a computer those gorgeous full-color images And then after a few years we got CD-quality sound It was incredible You could listen to sound on the computer And then movies via CD-ROM It was amazing Remember that excitement And then the browser appeared The browser was great but the browser was very primitive very narrow bandwidth Text first then images we waited CD-quality sound over the Net then movies over the Internet Kind of incredible And then the mobile phone occurred text images audio video And now we have iPhone iPad Android with text video audio etc You see this little pattern here We re kind of stuck in a loop John Maeda TEDGlobal 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3207 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:55:02 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3201 For 18 years Jakob Nielsen s Alertbox column was published on his useit com website This was a good run but it s now time to unify this content with the main Nielsen Norman Group website Thus the old Alertbox columns have now been moved from useit com to nngroup com and future columns will be published directly on nngroup com Even after the dot-com bubble burst there was a long period where the barebones useit com design stood out and elevated the site above many latecomer UX websites Cutting through the clutter is an important value on the web which has so much more information than anybody needs However eventually it makes less sense to rebel against the excesses of the past Also with almost 500 Alertbox columns published it became clear that more navigational apparatus was needed One solution could have been to redesign useit com to make it more like other sites But why bother If a big change was needed anyway it was better to use the opportunity to integrate the articles with the company information and host all the material on the same website with a single navigation structure and a single search So that s what we did no more microsite for the Alertbox The Nielsen Norman Group 31 December 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3201 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:13:40 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3185 We want everyone on earth to be able to design amp make their own things we dream in an universal access to the production means and we believe in the popularization of design tools amp 3D-Printing to make ideas real cunicode is a design studio for 3DPrint amp creative fabrication the way things are made is changing so the way things are designed will change as well Founded in early 2011 to explore the business opportunities of Additive Manufacturing through design We design inspiring objects and services to be produced digitally Bernat Cuni http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3185 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:37:53 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3171 Tom Dyckhoff meets up with Dieter Rams whose designs have found a permanent home in museums over the world The Culture Show Episode 17 broadcast on Thursday 3 December 2009 23 20 BBC Two http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3171 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:12:45 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3141 Say hello to the Archives Viewer naming things isn t really one of my strengths Instead of rewriting my existing script I decided to create a completely new web application Why Mainly because it gave me a lot more flexibility I could also make use of a variety of existing tools and frameworks like Django Bootstrap Isotope and FancyBox Standing upon the code of giants I had the whole thing up and running in a single weekend The code is available on GitHub What does it do Simply put just feed the Archives Viewer the barcode of a digitised file in RecordSearch and it grabs the metadata and images and displays them in a variety of useful ways It s really pretty simple both in execution and design Yep there s a wall It s not quite as spacey and zoom-y as the CoolIris version but perhaps that s a good thing It s just a flat wall of page image thumbnails with a bit of lightbox-style magic thrown in But when I say just well look for yourself There s something a bit magical about seeing all the pages of a file at once taking in their shapes and colours as well as their content This digital wall provides a strangely powerful reminder of the physical object Of course you can also view the file page by page if you want Printing is a snap - just type in any combination of pages or page ranges and hit the button The images and metadata are assembled ready to print No more wondering which file did this print out come from But perhaps the most important feature is that each page has it s own unique persistent url Basic stuff but oh so important With a good url you can share and cite Find something exciting Tell the world about it I ve included your typical social media share buttons to help you along Tim Sherratt 29 August 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3141 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:55:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3117 Melvyn Bragg considers the 150-year history of the Two Cultures debate In 1959 the novelist C P Snow delivered a lecture in Cambridge suggesting that intellectual life had become divided into two separate cultures the arts and the humanities The lecture is still celebrated for the furore it provoked - but Snow was returning to a battleground almost a century old Melvyn Bragg visits the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge scene of many of modern science s greatest triumphs to put the Two Cultures debate in its historical context - and Paul Nurse President of the Royal Society reveals the influence the Two Cultures debate had on his development as a scientist Melvyn Bragg 2013 The Value of Culture Two Cultures Radio broadcast Episode 3 of 5 Duration 42 minutes First broadcast Wednesday 02 January 2013 Presenter Melvyn Bragg Producer Thomas Morris for the BBC Radio 4 UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3117 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:12:52 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3114 Beginning next year 2013 Pono will release a line of portable players a music-download service and digital-to-analog conversion technology intended to present songs as they first sound during studio recording sessions In his book out this week Waging Heavy Peace Young writes that Pono will help unite record companies with cloud storage to save the sound of music As Flea raves to Rolling Stone It s not like some vague thing that you need dogs ears to hear It s a drastic difference Pono s preservation of the fuller analog sound already has the ear of the Big Three record labels Warner Music Group Universal Music Group and Sony Music WMG - home to artists including Muse the Black Keys Common and Jill Scott - has converted its library of 8 000 album titles to high-resolution 192kHz 24-bit sound It was a process completed prior to the company s partnership with Young s Pono project last year said Craig Kallman chairman and chief executive of Atlantic Records Patrick Flanary 27 September 2012 Rolling Stone http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3114 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:43:18 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3110 Art and design education has broadly settled on two categories of pedagogical frameworks both evolutions from historical precedents The first of these categories is driven by the spirit of the design collective and comprises the art school studio or atelier model This was established by the private Florentine art schools of the renaissance from around the 15th Century King 2003 always with a focus on making as well as learning from the group - from both peers and Masters Later this model of learning through practice carried over to the art schools of England in his 1858 inaugural address for the Cambridge School of Art John Ruskin Ruskin 1858 spoke about the relative futility of formal teaching per se and instead the pressing need for students to learn by repeated and applied making For applied craft and design this studio approach was the method under the influential Bauhaus School 1919-1933 in Germany Droste 2005 The second category derives from the teaching of industrial arts and is typically driven by the far greater student volume processing needs of the institution This category comprises the hot desking or increasingly the no-desking model with large taught classes in lecture format and occasional group tutorials Such a model is often the norm for universities academic courses The model spread to the creative courses that were more typically offered by polytechnics in the UK The first polytechnic dates back to the early nineteenth century Fox 1832-1854 although most were established in the 1960 s with a remit of applied education in industry and science for work In many countries the term technical college is the same as a polytechnic - in both the UK and Australia many of these colleges converted into universities in the last 30 years Ashley Hall and Tom Barker 2010 Hall A and T Barker 2010 Design collectives in education evaluating the atelier format and the use of teaching narrative for collective cultural and creative learning and the subsequent impact on professional practice In Alternative Practices in Design Past Present and Future H Edquist and L Vaughan Melbourne Victoria RMIT University Design Research Institute http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3110 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:13:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3090 If you are looking for a cookie-cutter recipe to success forget it Developing applications is hard work and relies heavily on the skill and the ability of everyone involved Even so a strong process is important Heroic efforts on the part of a development team can often bring a project to maturity however heroic efforts and strong process can do so repeatedly and reliably Jim Conallen 2002 Jim Conallen 2002 Building Web Applications with UML Addison-Wesley Object-Technology Series http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3090 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:50:28 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3051 Exhibition Bruno Munari My Futurist Past Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art 39A Canonbury Square London N1 2AN From 19 September 2012 to 23 December 2012 Bruno Munari was a founding member of the Movimento Arte Concreta M A C in Milan which was established towards the end of the 1940s This acted as a catalyst for new developments in Italian abstraction and aspired to bring about a synthesis of arts in which traditional painting would be complemented by new tools of communication demonstrating the possibility of a convergence of art and technology creativity and functionality Reflecting his belief that technological advances expanded the artist s expressive vocabulary by 1950 Munari had begun to experiment with creating works by means of projecting light through compositions made from a wide range of materials such as coloured and transparent plastic organic elements and Polaroid filters producing beautiful and intriguing images of vast dimensions Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art 2012 Fig 1 Bruno Munari Aeroplanes and Archers 1932 mixed media 34 8 x 24 8cms Courtesy Massimo amp Sonia Cirulli Archive http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3051 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:39:06 +1000