when you’re a company that produces products that cross industries and categories how do you capture your family of products? 3M has done so with the trendy rube goldberg machine where sac product plays it’s part.
Category Archives: design tech
sticky business
when you have a good idea it can just stick, here are two concepts that may stick in more way than one.
pixel pic
one of the great balancing acts of design is to push the boundary of simplicity without obscuring meaning, some of which is achieved with pixelation. mark bern and everbright play with this tool in 2 very different outcomes.
Everbright from Hero Design on Vimeo.
in-gear
getting an audience to participate in a hands-on experience encourages engagement and memorable
experiences. to accomplish that with something that is traditionally a dry matter like numbers and
annual reports is something to take note of.
memory lane
old meets older
before there was video animation or video anything there were entertainment novelties like zoetropes.
before any of that there were still images like engravings and paintings. creators, mat collishaw
and sebastian burton, have brought two eras of visual art together in their recreation of rubens’s
massacre of the innocents in a 3-D printed zoetrope.
chairman
chairs are one of the most expressive and abundant pieces of furniture, marrying form and function of every kind. the method case profiles harry thaler’s elegantly simple chair made from a single sheet of metal as well as detailing his R&D.
pins and needles
son lux’s music video is on point in 4,000 stop motion frames of pins and bands.
Making Son Lux's "Change is Everything"video from Nathan Johnson on Vimeo.
information installation
design is driven by communication and relationships are the basis of communication by providing context. in a project for the international architecture exhibition MACE’s design team used exploration and engagement to show relationships between architectural projects.
bot bits
build your own buddy with this bit kickstarted bit kit: