February 28, 20114:51pm
The city is filled with an invisible landscape of networks that is becoming an interwoven part of daily life. WiFi networks and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones are starting to influence how urban environments are experienced and understood. We want to explore and reveal what the immaterial terrain of WiFi looks like and how it relates to the city.
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. from Timo on Vimeo.
January 22, 20101:54pm
Graphical user interfaces are full of symbols. Symbols need to be reduced to their essence. This helps avoid cluttering the user interface with meaningless distractions, and makes it easier for people to «read» the symbol and figure out the meaning of an interface element. Realistic details can get in the way of what you’re trying to communicate to your users.
via ignore the code: Realism in UI Design.
December 9, 20094:40pm
I’d love to know when/if Plundr is coming to the iPhone
Plundr is the world’s first location-based PC game. Using state-of-the-art Wi-Fi Positioning System technologies (WPS), the game locates the user’s computer in physical space and uses their location as part of the game.
The co-founder, Kevin Slavin, talks about this, other GPS games and augmenting reality, in What is Reality?.
November 2, 200910:30am
The M1 motorway is 50 years old today.
The School of Life offered a tour of the M1 last year:
The M1 is widely perceived as a necessary evil synonymous with bad weather, tailbacks and stewed tea. Yet there was a time when the first intercity motorway in the UK was a celebrated part of the national geography, valued as a destination in itself. We explore the length of this great tarmac institution, meeting architects and historians, artists and truckers. We unearth the story of the motorway’s construction, reveal the poetry of its monumental architecture, dine in its historic service stations and recover the utopian thrill of its early days.
The Monday 2nd, 1959 issue of the Guardian offered this prophetic warning …
In an age of serious contemplation of travel to the moon it seems senseless that no British Government has yet devised means of enabling traffic to move more freely on the ground at home.
September 15, 200912:01pm
Test 1: Vietnam
June 29, 200911:40am
Loving these zipper pull alphabet keychain designs from underground DJ/graphic designer Mike Davis
via Design Milk.
9:56am
Lord Andrew Adonis sets out his transport manifesto with particular reference to cycling …
In promoting low carbon transport, there is no lower carbon or healthier means of getting from A to B, besides walking, than cycling. Cycling has for too long been the Cinderella of transport policy – adored but neglected, when in fact it ought to be central to our thinking and planning if we are serious about a low carbon and healthier future. Improved cycling facilities will be one of my key priorities as Secretary of State. It is no accident that the countries which are most serious about cycling – I think particularly of Holland and Germany – are also among those which have the most joined-up transport systems, because cycling by its very nature is a short distance mode of transport and requires good interchange facilities if it is to be a central part of a wider system.
June 25, 200911:09am
There’s something deliciously nerdy about these travel maps. Ephemera’s a great word too.
via ISO50
