GPS User Experience of the Future

Raphael Orlove, writing for Jalopnik:

The last and best feature of the car is Honda’s GPS solution: it’s your phone. You can order the car with navigation for something around $1500, or you can download the HondaLink app from Honda for $59.99 and get something better. With the app, the car will display your phone’s GPS on its seven-inch display. That means as you upgrade your phone, you’ll be upgrading your GPS, too. I can’t think of a better system.

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Why has this idea taken so long. I have the ability to talk to my cell phone and trigger an action. Why can’t I use the maps that are on my phone to  display onto my GPS interface. Honda just happens to be the first ones to make the move.

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Harald Haraldsson – Interactive Installations

Harald Haraldsson is a visual artist and an award-winning director from Iceland. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. For the past ten years he has lived and worked in Shanghai, Tokyo and London. Currently Harald is based in Reykjavik, Iceland. While applying interactive techniques to different mediums, he creates beautiful work which frequently references geometry, urban structures, and electronic sounds. The use of technology, special effects, and music in films like Clockwork Orange, Se7en, and Terminator 2, led him to study engineering and create visual experiences with technology. PRISMA 1666 is an installation named after and inspired by Sir Isaac Newton’s famous experiments in 1666 on the refraction of light through crystals. The interactive light installation consists of fifteen triangular crystal blocks by which the projection of colourful graphics is transformed exquisitely.

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Adrian Esparza Transforms Mexican Serape Blankets Into Intricate Geometric Thread Installations

Texas-based artist Adrian Esparza uses nails and the thread from Mexican sarape blankets to weave colorful geometric patterns. Growing up in El Paso, Esparza encountered these blankets on a daily basis. Using his background as a painter, Esparza observed that the blankets contained painterly qualities that he sought to deconstruct. The result is an unraveling of a Mexican cultural symbol into a new form, a multi-dimensional landscape of color and shape. Esparza’s deconstruction and transformation of this cultural symbol reflects the displacement of identity that many Mexican-Americans experience as a result of migration. The wall pieces Esparza constructs from the serapes, though completely transformed, recall macrame and other handcrafts from the artist’s culture. Through his work, Esparza reinvents the ordinary and asks the viewer to embrace the potential for creative transformation that can be found in the familiar and the mundane.

Esparza’s work – titled “Wake and Wonder” –  will be on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami as part of the exhibition, “Americana: Formalizing Craft,” until May 2015.(via design boom)

 

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Sam Songailo’s Installations Immerse he Viewer in Another World

  

Artist Sam Songailo uses bright colors, straight lines, and bold, graphic shapes in his outdoor and indoor installations. Geometric repeating patterns span span floors, ceilings, and walls. Lighting plays a role in his work as it enhances color and gives the work a sense of space and a depth of field. Once the viewer is immersed in the space, all of the elements of Songailo’s work transports them to another place.

Outdoor installations, like the ones on a city street, work with the existing landscape. Songailo’s patterns fill and conform to every inch of the given space like a mutating organism. The high-contrast colors and intricate trellis-like shapes create a disorienting effect. Not so much when viewing it as a whole from above, but walking through it leaves little indication of direction.

Before he started large-scale installations, Songailo was a graphic designer. This is evident in the execution of his work, especially in one of his few indoor installations,  Zen Garden (directly above).  The piece mimics the lines of sand, with a few “rocks” that are spread throughout the gallery floor. Songailo is able to have full control over the space, and uses principles of design to make it not only attractive, but to effectively transport the viewer to a minimalist, geometric zen garden.

  

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Human interaction

You know, the oddest thing about what’s happening right now is that we’ve stopped living our lives and we’re just recording them. 

George Clooney, recalling what he told President Obama during a fundraiser in which no one wanted to shake their hands, they just wanted to take their picture. (viaparislemon)

This: "no one wanted to shake their hands, they just wanted to take their picture" — Welcome to the future. We are living in it.

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Hans Kotter’s Fantastic Light Art

Via TRIANGULATION:

“Hans Kotter’s artistic practice moves between technological installations and luminous materials. The visual language of the artist is strictly connected on the light and not with the material surface. Light draws shapes, it carves images and becomes a necessary and primary tool. Kotter doesn’t use light to define shapes, he changes light in shape.

His artistic research is based on the optical process as a medium to get the work and also to represent the final point of his research. The tunnel views are hypnotic work, the viewer is captured into this tunnel, made by light and led. In a luminous world where sensorial alteration and luminous perception interact together in a different way.” – Studio d’Arte Pino Casagrande

See more at hans-kotter.com