Concentricity 96 from Joshua Kirsch on Vimeo.
I like to play around with light sculpture, and have done a few light projects recently (including my Halloween costume), so Joshua Kirsch’s work is a huge inspiration. ‘Concentricity 96’ is an amazing piece that allows the user to interact and control the flow and direction of light. It’s part of a series of interactive sculpture. Says Kirsch on his portfolio site,
“Concentricity is an interactive light sculpture series. Each of the three works presents an illuminated white handle which the viewer is invited to move in any direction. Reed switches located within the sculpture’s circuitry sense the movements of a magnet contained in the handle and translate that information into LED light. Concentricity 96 employs 96 white LEDs that shine through the sculpture’s honeycomb-like aluminum frame to create shapes and patterns on the wall.”
Check out more of his work here.
This is nothing short of awesome. Print Magazine asked design studio Heads of State to create hypothetical packaging for marijuana, were it to be made legal in New York.
Digital Graffiti Wall + Stencils from Alex Beim on Vimeo.
As a former Parsons student I am indefinitely predisposed to interactive graffiti projects, and this case is no different. Written in openFrameworks and using IR cams within ‘spray cans’, users can paint on the multi-touch digital graffiti wall and even use stencils. Tangible Interaction is a Vancouver-based studio that does a lot of other amazing interactive work; check out their site here.
Love love love the work of French designer/illustrator Emmanuel Polanco.
Most remixes don’t get their own music videos, but luckily for us this one is an exception. I’ve had The xx and Florence and the Machine on repeat all fall, and together they are pure magic. Watch it, love it, download it.
Excellent animation by Henning Lederer, based the 1926 Fritz Kahn poster of the same name. For more information about the project, check out the website.
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