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(winner of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009)

Great article/interview/videos on product design from all-time great Dieter Rams.

There’s a list here of industrial design-related events around the world today.

Image: poster for the new film by Gary Hustwit, Objectified—watch a film trailer here.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt, Hamburg, Germany
Executive Creative Directors: Wolfgang Schneider, Mathias Stiller
Creative Directors: David Mously, Jan Harbeck
Copywriter: Nicolas Linde
Account Supervisors: Frank Lotze, Ilan Schaefer, Ina Neumann, Melanie Ebensperger, Simone Buchcik
Art Buyer: Marjorie Jorrot
Art Director: Duc Nguyen
Photographer: Dirk Heinrich
Agency Producer: S. Hannemann
Media Agency: Wall Ag
Final Artwork: C. Von Bartkowski

“Attractive things work better… When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does.” – Don Norman

This quote is from the article “The Secret of Apple Design” by Technology Review. This site requires a login to read the full article. Read more from Don on this subject in his paper “Attractive Things Work Better.” (PDF)

Thanks to Robert Shedd for submitting this quote!

1. Designs should be informed, but not solely determined by user experience data.

Yesterday was the first day of the three day event "exhibit: international exhibition of digital art". As it was raining, it took a while for the artists to set the projects up, but eventually they did. In addition to the electronica DJ set, there were some interactive installations.

One was Chris Sugrue's Delicate Boundaries, of which I'm a huge fan.

(I didn't take good documentation, but here is a proper video):

Another was Memo Akten's Body Paint, which was quite a bit of fun to play with, especially with techno and spritz.

Terrarium is an interactive, sonic ecosystem whose source of energy comes from the sounds people make interacting with the work. The sounds of the participants voices come into the world via the sound vents. These sounds are too raw for the environment so they are sucked in by the Seed Spitters who process the sounds to more manageable particles which are then expelled into the environment. These processed sound particles help spawn and sustain life within the ecosystem, providing food for the fish in the water and creating frequency sensitive plants on the land. The voice also triggers changes to the Pattern Bush who adapts the shapes of its leaves to the sounds it hears.

Link to video | A project by Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille

Humanity rocks...(in B flat apparently).