Last month I gave a keynote talk at LIFT 10, France in Marseilles, following a lovely invitation by Nicolas Nova, who wanted me to open with a ‘broader, inspirational talk about design and how different approaches to prototype near-futures are important’. (No pressure!) Here’s the video from the talk: And here are my slides: Slides: [...]
We are pleased to have two lovely, talented designers join us for this summer. Meet Mark and Zahra! Hello! I’m Mark, a designer and PhD student at Nottingham University’s Horizon, and Mixed Reality Lab. I’m also a co-founder of LAB, a Nottingham based collective for open, collaborative creative practice. Previously I studied on the MA [...]
We are delighted by the new Rupee Symbol! Designed by Uday Kumar, a graduate of IIT bombay (Industrial Design center), it was chosen from among 3,000 designs competing for the currency symbol. He gets an award of Rs. 2.5 lakhs (= 5300 USD). The government aims to have the symbol adopted in six months within [...]
Here’s a nice bit of coverage in the Pioneer magazine of the IMPACT! show, also featuring the 5th Dimensional Camera, with a review by Lord Robert Winston. And EPSRC have just released the lovely film they made during the show:
Here’s the presentation I gave at FuturEverything, its a peek into our process and outcomes from the Power of 8 project, with an emphasis on the nature of our multidisciplinary collaboration and our DIY-future prototyping methods.
Quick Overview: As work is underway to harness the weird nature of our subatomic world to build a quantum computer, we, as designers, where given the unique opportunity to explore what the wider implications of living in a world with quantum computing might be. Initially we investigated the many possibilities that this new form of [...]
The idea of a having a supermarket at your doorstep, or selling products door-to-door as a form of ‘customer service’ is very popular in India. In most parts of the country fruit and vegetable vendors go in their carts, carrying fresh supplies for the residents. But apart from these usual suspects, we also have unique [...]
Next week I will be attending TEDIndia as a TED Fellow, and I am definitely looking forward to it. The theme of the conference is ‘Future Beckons’ and conference line-up is absolutely fantastic. Some of the speakers I am very keen to listen include Hans Rosling, R.A. Mashelkar, Banny Banerjee, Kiran Sethi, Anil Gupta and [...]
The Power of 8 show ran successfully for three weeks at the Watermans Gallery and we are now trying to get our lives back, and new client work (with the Courtauld Institute of Art and Southern Water amongst others) has kept us busy. We will be posting a complete run down of the show, our [...]
As part of Superflux’s endeavour to understand the values that will underlie the changing design scene in the India in the coming years, especially when there seems to be a sudden interest in the country’s economy, I thought I’d start with ‘Eames Report‘ (written in April 1957). Charles and Ray Eames Although hugely famous in [...]
