The Future of Advertising

Advertising is on the cusp of its first creative revolution since the 1960s. But the ad industry might get left behind.

Read More at Fast Company

They stole my team's project

before we even thought of it. The dude isn't actually playing that guitar in the deceptive photo, he's scaling the image.

see this and more inside this month's issue of SEGD Digest (p. 30)

eye-tracking advertisement display

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ducedo/3708879919/sizes/l/in/set-72157621141663085/

How to Avoid the Idea Generation Trap

Scott Belsky: How to Avoid the Idea Generation Trap from 99% on Vimeo.

5 Believes that inhibit good design

Five Beliefs that Inhibit Good Design

The growing interest in design notwithstanding, many businesses cling to misbegotten ideals that hinder it, says consultant Deepa Prahalad

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UC's DAAP building to get facelift

BY CLIFF PEALE • CPEALE@ENQUIRER.COM • NOVEMBER 4, 2010

"...the DAAP building has shown signs of wear, with seams ripping apart or puncturing and significant leaking, McGrew said. It also is crowded, with more students crowding into the building as UC's total enrollment has increased to nearly 42,000..."


20 million to prevent the building from ripping apart at the seams seems like more than a facelift to me, quite a bit more.

I'm not posting this to be a rabble-rouser, but I thought it'd be prudent to back up my "better-off in a double-wide" (if only temporarily) hypothesis with a bona fide factoid.

And there might be some general interest. Since we live there.

merry friday to all and to all a good night

reach for the stars, kids, reach for the stars

Any artist or designer who works with color knows that the best inspiration and perfect coloration can often be found in real-life objects all around us. What if you could take your trusty drawing pen and simply scan any color you want and then turn around and draw with it? This innovative pen design by Jin Sun Park allows you to do just that. Next step? A complete texture selector and replicator?

http://dornob.com/creative-scan-and-draw-color-changing-pen-design/

Snake gives ‘virgin birth’ to extraordinary babies

A female boa constrictor snake has given birth to two litters of extraordinary offspring.

Evidence suggests the mother snake has had multiple virgin births, producing 22 baby snakes that have no father.

More than that, the genetic make-up of the baby snakes is unlike any previously recorded among vertebrates, the group which includes almost all animals with a backbone.

Details are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

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How to become a "better designer"

Tips on How to Become a Better Designer http://bit.ly/4ET4S2

The Definitive Guide to Awesome Web Content

More helpful info for Competitions

Search Engine Optimization often stresses the importance of adding keywords in the content and meta tags, but often overlooks the message of the content itself. This article - albeit long - offers strategies to make quality content that is also SEO friendly

The Definitive Guide to Awesome Web Content

Futuristic Supermarket Shopping Carts: Skynet carried our groceries

... technology heavy shopping carts began. Does your supermarket have those new fangled shopping carts with the proximity lock on the wheels or as someone mentioned a "magnetic travelator" whatever that is. Are shopping carts getting to advanced or are we falling behind

Ultimate Guide to Website Wireframing

This is more for Competitions than Ikea.

Read the Six Revisions article

Most designers wireframe their designs in one way or another, even if it just involves them making quick sketches on the back of some scratch paper. Wireframing is an important part of the design process, especially for more complex projects.

Wireframes can come in handy when you’re communicating with clients, as it allows them to visualize your ideas more easily than when you just describe them verbally.

This guide covers what you need to know about website wireframes to get started.

Read the Six Revisions article

In Ikea's China Stores, Loitering Is Encouraged

By letting visitors linger, the Swedish chain hopes they will buy as their incomes rise

Yang Shuqi paces the aisles of an Ikea store in Beijing, looking for a "small bed with toys." She's not planning to buy one—her grandson Beibei just needs to take a nap. Unfortunately on this Saturday afternoon, every bed in the 43,000-square-meter (463,000-square-foot) store is occupied, with some children and adults fast asleep under the covers...

IKEA Infiltration

Artists take over IKEA store in Hamburg, Germany

InfoVis is Beautiful!

Great supplement to a couple of our classes. Astounding visualizations of information!

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

UNIKEA

Kenyon Yeh's UNIKEA is pretty innovative, and his whole portfolio is pretty interesting.

Ikea Mobile Kiosk...

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/02/06/ikea-mobile-kiosks-showing-up-in-stores-probably-some-assembly-required/

IKEA Interactive Map

Found this link on the Dayton Daily News website of an interactive store map for the West Chester Ikea.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/p/content/oh/media/living/ikea/

IKEA and game design?

http://redkingsdream.com/2009/10/ikea-and-the-logic-of-videogame-design/

A game design critique's view of IKEA.

OhMyGodWhatHappened

This Book helps you to move into the Digital era of awesomeness. Download it for free: http://bit.ly/4R9rth

(I've already read the first few pages and I'm liking it so far). If you don't want to/can't tweet about it let me know and I'll email you my copy!

REDU

you guys probably already caught this, but this lil guy is some of the best info graphics i've seen in a while.

http://huntergatherer.net/project.php?id=504&cat=1

Ikea Class

Consumer Response to In-Store Price Information Environments

A laboratory experiment evaluated the impact of eight in-store information environments on consumer processing of price information.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2489023

Comcast Lab

An example project showing diagrams, and conceptual proposals.

Existing Mobile Application for Ikea Shoppers

This app for apple ipods/iphones houses the Ikea catalog and an augmented reality option. The video is pretty interesting. There is also an app for the Droid, but without full catalog and no augmented reality option.

http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/ikea-takes-its-product-catalog-mobile-with-augmented-reality-app/

IKEA iPhone App

I know my group isn't the only one kicking around the idea of mocking up a mobile application to use within the IKEA store. Here is a link to their current, official application for iOS devices. It seems to be little more than a catalogue...lots of room for improvement.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ikea-catalogue/id386592716?mt=8

Even your Sims can shop Ikea

http://thesims2.ea.com/about/sp8_index.php

The Secret Life of Plants

This will change the way you think about plants...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4753736638977368381#

(it is kind of slow but worth watching)

Fun, Interactive Map I Found on the Ikea Website

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/the_ikea_story/the_ikea_store/find_your_way.html
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/the_ikea_story/the_ikea_store/find_your_way.html

BAM!

Nokia researching fabric like electronics for future cell phones

Dropping your cell phone is a big deal. For most of us it happens sooner or later, with luck dividing us into those standing on carpet and those standing on cement.

Dropping phones might not be an issue in the future if a current line of research Nokia is pursuing takes off. Dr. Stephanie Lacour of the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge demonstrates a "stretchable electronic skin" that could one day be the form phones come in, in which case we'd be wearing them rather than holding them, and dropping them would be more like dropping a handkerchief than a crystal dish.

http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/nokia_researching_fabric-like_electronics_for_future_cell_phones_17571.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%27s+design+blog%29

Dual screen phone is here!

http://www.core77.com/blog/business/the_astonishing_tribes_interface_design_coming_to_fujitsus_radical_dual-screen_phone_17561.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+core77/blog+(Core77.com's+design+blog)

Eye-tracking on the Ikea website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdOMgu0C5Q

pretty interesting to follow someone else's eye vs. thinking about where your own eye would be looking

New Ways to Interact using Portable Technlology

I actually found this last year, but its still a fresh look at what will be possible in the near future. Shows interesting new ways to use body gestures and mobile computing to create a new interactive experience.

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Viral Ikea Advert w/ cats

CATS!

Films of Interest

  Fellini :: Amarcord
   Almodovar :: All about my Mother
   Mike Nichols :: Catch-22
   Sergio Leone :: Once Upon a Time in the West
   Antonioni :: Passenger, Red Desert, Zabriskie Point
   Wim Wenders :: Wings of Desire, Until the End of the World
   Tati :: Playtime
   Jean Luc Godard :: Alphaville
   David Fincher :: Fight Club
   Emir Kusturica :: Underground
   Roman Polanski :: Chinatown
   Cronenberg :: Videodrome, Crash
   Kubrick :: 2001, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket
   Godrey Reggio :: Koyanisqatsi
   Andrew Niccol :: Gattaca
   Mamoru Oshii :: Ghost in the Shell
   Lars von Trier :: The Element of Crime
   Dziga Vertov :: Man with a Movie camera
   Chaplin :: Modern Times
   Coppola :: The Conversation
   Adrian Lyne :: Jacob's Ladder
   Robert LePage :: Le Confessional, Polygraph
   Milcho Manchevski :: Before the Rain
   Resnais + Marguerite Duras :: Hiroshima Mon Amour
   Wong Kar Wai :: Fallen Angels, Chungking Express
   Chris Marker :: Sans Soleil
   Tarkovsky :: Mirror, Nostalghia, Stalker
   Bertolucci :: Conformist
   Pasolini :: Mamma Roma
   Richard Fleischer :: Soylent Green
   James Bridges :: China Syndrome
   Todd Haynes :: Safe
   Terence Malick :: Thin Red Line
   Terry Gilliam :: 12 Monkeys, Brazil
   David Russell :: Three Kings
   Ridley Scott :: Alien, Blade Runner
   Gus Van Zant :: My Own Private Idaho
   Jarmusch :: Mystery Train
   Kaige Chen :: Farewell my Concubine
   Danny Cannon :: Judge Dredd

More photos!

Kiosk

Map

Showroom

ikea 3d kitchen

shop ikea kitchens in 3d! it loads really slowly though… bummer.

http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/dreamkitchen2/site/default.htm

Giant e-paper displays

Now showing at a Taiwanese book expo: two gorgeous e-paper displays, one in black-and-white and one in color. The approximately 24-inch readers were created by Delta Electronics (no relation to the airliner) and are being used by a local newspaper publisher to survey attendees and gauge interest in their future use. Our friends at Engadget Chinese tell us the color one is less contrasty than its monochrome partner, but beyond that, details are scarce and no one at the booth could provide any specs. One thing's for certain: they're a helluva lot crisper than those 28-inch e-paper billboards popping up around Tokyo. Hit up the read link for more pics.

Source: engadget.com
Originally posted: By Ross Miller Feb 6th 2009 12:53PM

Changing Retail Currency

Download the PDF of this piece on Retail by SF based Method. (also nice design!)

http://method.com/#/detail/Promo/4

Ikea Font Change

A little bit about the Ikea font change this last year.

MORE HERE

- James

The Ikea Experience

Here's an interesting article I found that talks about how many customers despise the Ikea shopping experience, but still come back time and time again.

http://www.customerthink.com/article/ikea_branded_experience_important

Ely Beyer

Can Cell Phones really save the planet article

Interesting post on the influence and future of cell phones.

http://www.good.is/post/can-cell-phones-really-save-the-planet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+good/lbvp+(GOOD+Main+RSS+Feed)

IKEA Field Trip 3

ending tonight with a picture of the only signage not designed in-line with the IKEA brand and it leaves me wondering why (perhaps some governmental money-grub law that requires businesses to use only official handicap signs?)

IKEA Field Trip 2

followed by a picture of the worlds loneliest bicycle rack.
do you remember all there was to see too the horizon was cornfields?
where are these bicycles going to ridden from?
hmm, what will I do this Saturday? I think I'll ride my bike to IKEA to buy some pillows and a mattress, maybe a nice cowhide for the floor.

IKEA Field Trip 1

here's everyone enjoying breakfast in a restaurant furnished entirely of items available for purchase

Reach - New York, An Urban Musical Instrument by Christopher Janney

Christopher Janney teaches a course at The Cooper Union called "Sound as a Visual Medium".

it harkens to superman's power chrystals

Augmented-Reality Mapping

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

Another Interactive Space

Interactive dog that follows you around, discerns your gestures as friendly or aggressive and tries to engage you in a play. built with openFrameworks, unity3d and blender3d.

Sniff from karolina sobecka on Vimeo.

dunnhumbyUSA

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Be there between 9:00 and 9:15 AM Thursday we will park and meet in the Lot where the orange 444 sign is.

IKEA naming scheme...

One thing I started wondering about in Ikea today was the naming scheme of the items for sale, as each one has a unique, foreign name that I've always assumed was some sort of appropriate title in Swedish. I wondered why Ikea didn't just translate the furniture names, so I did some Googling, and found the truth behind the Ikea naming convention system!! :)

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Product_names

Pretty interesting, I never knew that there was such a system behind the names. The system is distinct and creative, but it gets completely lost to those who don't speak the language(s). Does keeping true to the naming scheme inhibit the average American's purchasing experience? Could it be easier for a customer searching the giant warehouse, if the item "Dalfred" was labeled "black bar stool?"

When exiting the escalator into the showroom, a classmate remarked to me that Ikea felt "like they weren't in Ohio anymore..." The Ikea store experience is unique (intentionally) to another design culture that's sometimes foreign to ours. Keeping the integrity of Ikea as a Swedish brand in American culture is an issue I imagine Ikea has debated pretty frequently, and is probably one we'll encounter again when considering Ikea experience improvements.

Facebook "like" tagging in the real world.

This is an interesting article detailing the use of facebook "like" tags on real world objects. Coca Cola Park in Israel gave guests special RFID bracelets that were linked to their personal facebook accounts. They could then "check in" to specific locations around the park by scanning their wrists. Just something to think about.....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=70896

Blackberry Playbook

Interactive Storefront

An out-of-home (OOH) advertising campaign for Canadian telecommunications provider Telus recently turned storefronts in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal into gesture-based interactive video walls. via Sign Media

The Web is Dead

If you don't already have a subscription to Wired magazine, you should. For ten bucks a year you get access to insightful articles, superb information graphics and a glimpse into what is happening with design, technology and culture. Check out this article from last month's issue.

groopi.es | trust your friends

Check out this new site for product recommendations.

Some Links to Consider

LG E Paper (link)

Future of Screen Technology (video)

Minimal Folio (link)

Ikea West Chester

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We will meet Tuesday at 9:30am in the Ikea Cafe.

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