transitlab

In July 2008, I headed to Napier University for the one day symposium  inter_multi_trans_actions. Think this was the first time I saw HeHe talking about their lazer projected on industrial smoke stack emisions. Moritz Waldemeyer talked about the light works he has made, and pneumatic dresses. More posts from the event under the inter_multi_trans_actions tag.  [...]

time Jennifer Sheridan talked about the pooch. The pooch/(now bigdog interactive) are into extreme prototyping, one day minimal time and cost. They also like to inhabit the social space of the festival, this bring with it constraints and challenges, of making their products portable, selfpowered and able to withstand the harsh environment (portability,heat, noise). They [...]

Crispin Jones (mr-jones.org) Neither artist nor designer… business man now? Taking inspiration from some of his artworks of strange watches, he now makes limited run of his watches that sell under the Mr-Jones brand. One of his first works was selfplay ZXZX(1999), a mechanical device to win the track and field computer game. Go check [...]

Moritz Waldemeyer I practitioner of Mechatronics,I had encountered his shapechanging technology in haute couture dresses at the Cyborg Futures exhibition at the discovery Museum, Newcastle last year. He works with big companies and this gives him the opportunity to play with expensive materials such as crystals(swarovski), corion(Dupont, an acrylic + oxide material used in designer [...]