+ Tatsuo Miyajima’s C.F.Bubble in the Water

 

I came across this facinating lamp with LED numerals "bubble in the water" at Salone del mobile 2006. For further details and images refer to Japan Design Net

Loop- Digital Dawn

Loop.pH is a design and research studio that creates and develops new surfaces & structures, conducts an extensive range of research activities and collaborates with industry. It is a multidisciplinary partnership set up in 2003 by Rachel Wingfield with artist Mathias Gmachl after meeting on a FoAM project in the UK. Together they have fabricated reactive surfaces for a variety of environments, from the public to the domestic. Their work aims to provide a more intuitive understanding of our natural environment, from day-night cycles to power consumption. Research into the physiological effects of light and colour on the human body is a strong component in their work. They are developing textile-based ambient displays for the home with active textiles that visualise information through dynamic pattern and colour change.
Some of the interested project on which Loop has been working on are Digital Dawn, Light Sleeper, Blumen wallpaper, walls with ears, Temporal Lights. Check this link.

Pixel Roller

The “PixelRoller” project is a collabortive investigation into a new creative tool between Stuart Wood MA (RCA) Interaction Design and Florian Ortkrass MA (RCA) Design Products.

PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.

Checkout the official website of Random Internation for further details about Pixel Roller and other interesting projects.
http://www.random-international.squarespace.com/

RCA graduates Flo Ortkrass, Stuart Wood (both 2005) and Hannes Koch (2004) have operated as rAndom international since it was born on a hill in Egham (Surrey) in 2002. While gaining experience at Audi Design, the BBC, Philips Design, Pearson Lloyd, Metadesign and artist Olafur Eliasson, we have continously worked on both freelance as well as self-initiated projects.

The latter include Wallpaper clock and Instant Labelling Tape in 2004, and last years PixelRoller projects and the complementing PixelTape. Among rAndom collaborations are the Sunlight Table (with Anab Nain, 2005) and the Split68 series of lights (with Caroline Noordijk, 2005/06), which is currently on show at the Design Museums Designmart exhibition.

rAndom international works in a studio in Acre Lane in Brixton, south London. Hannes currently teaches together with Gabi Klasmer Platform 8 at the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art. Stuart and Flo are Research Associates at the RCA’s Innovation Unit and develop the Pixelroller there. Phil by the way, who helped bringing rAndom up, now teaches design in a school down here in Brixton.

Eavesdripping

eavesdripping is the design for an installation that uses water as both medium and display, rendering invisible communication visible.

the starting point for this project was an assignment at the berlin university of the arts: by enhancing a material electronically, make an intelligent surface intelligent and able to interact with the world around it. my initial approach was to experiment with physical displays that show computer generated information by a physical change of material. related projects are the wooden mirror by daniel rozin as a physical representation, the source by greyworld as a volumetric display and bitfall by julius popp as an approach to using natural effects as means of display.

the surface which i chose for my work is water – or more precisely, the visual effect of drops of water hitting a liquid surface. my goal was to construct a physical display which by raining on a surface could display simple information on it. every splash would represent a white dot in the image on the ground, every absence of a splash, a black dot.

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Sascha Pohflepp