Gensler DC Lifestyle Studio

the kitchen we all want

It can get as hot as 150 degrees. There’s no arable soil to support life. And water? Water is complicated. This isn’t humanity’s quest to terraform an exoplanet. It’s New York’s plan to build a park above a train yard.

6,400 spools of thread spin around to recreate images tagged on Instagram in this 2,000-pound machine. More info on this project by Breakfast NY for Forever 21. _a-maz-ing_

Interesting that it doesn’t talk about WHY they made it or for WHOM. I’m less interested in the coding than the seed of the idea.

STOP. In the name of designing for people and not labels.

WHOA memory lane

Love the old-fashioned feel to it...a step above animated GIF. I dare someone to do this for #gDC15...

So the bird is just for kooky fun, but I got a lot out of reading this bit about how mobile accessibility is changing behaviors...DEFINITELY need-to-know for all of us.

#beastmode stop motion -> Son Lux - Change Is Everything 

49 illustration students atthe University of Newcastle were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” video and produced 2767 frames of hand-drawn rotoscoped animation for a completely awesome and surreal result. also, prepare to have this song running through your brain on repeat all over again.

http://www.seymourchwastarchive.com/ awesome and comprehensive archive of the work of Seymour Chwast, one of the giants of the industry.

Let’s just get to the point. It’s like reaching THROUGH THE SCREEN. This is basically a step towards the dream of not just being able to communicate remotely, but actually physically effect an environment remotely.

via designboom

HOLY.STOP.MOTION. 

http://www.inoreader.com/article/3a9c6e7c911e537d

With special thanks to Stef who sent this to me this morning. =-)