Tag: design

Improved NYC Subway Map

Mr. Jabbour pinned 2 maps to the wall, then pointed to the different renderings of the Atlantic Avenue terminal in Brooklyn, which he says is the most difficult station to represent because so many subway lines converge there. In Mr. Jabbour’s map, the subway lines run parallel to one another, making the map easier to read, if slightly inaccurate. Each line is marked with a circle bearing the route’s letter or number, instead of the oblong station markers used on the current map.

Sometimes truth is less important than knowledge.

Low energy Web palette

CRTs and other monitors that use “additive” colors (that is, systems that make white by shining all colors at maximum brightness) use more power to display some colors than others. Mark Ontkush has developed a low-wattage color-palette for use in web-applications that are used on these displays

What can you use it for? Any application that is displayed on a device that uses CRT, Plasma, or OLED technology. Any device where white costs money – handheld units, web sites, TV. Enjoy.

Cup Stains

Bethan Laura Wood has created a line of teacups that get prettier the more they are used. She treats the cups’ interiors so that tea-stains build up more in patters she lays down — the more tea you drink, the more pronounced the stain-patterns become.

design for a post-scarcity world. when are manufacturers moving beyond planned obsolescence?

integrating the skin into fashion

SKIN Probe investigates the human skin, and how body products should be designed – be they garments, electronics or furniture. She developed it with a team made of people coming from different disciplines: a fashion designer, a textile engineer, a garment technologist, etc.

Technology should be much more than just intelligent: it should be sensitive, thus able to give psycho-sensorial feedbacks (a subliminal message) and indirect response (touch and feel). She sees skin as a wonderful sensor: it’s an electronic network, a protection barrier, a temperature regulator, etc.