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Ein eintägiger Workshop in Hamburg für PAGE/WEAVE – rund um plattformübergreifende Dramaturgien und cross-screen Storytelling.
Mobile Apps und Devices fordern Kreative neu heraus. Die Welt des Personal Computing befindet sich im Umbruch. Der PC als Einzelplatz mit festem Ort wird ergänzt durch eine Vielzahl neuartiger, vorwiegend mobiler Geräte: Smartphones, Tablets, Netbooks, E-Reader und Fernseher bieten Zugriff auf die eigenen Daten und das Internet. Sie öffnen weitere Fenster und Spielflächen für digitale Produkte und Kampagnen. Neben unterschiedlichen Screengrößen und Bildschirmparametern bringen diese Geräte eigene Nutzungscharakteristika mit sich, die es bei der Entwicklung interaktiver Lösungen zu berücksichtigen gilt. Diese Eigenschaften kreativ auszunutzen und eine Dramaturgie zu schaffen, die eine nahtlose Interaktion und Wertschöpfung über mehrere Plattformen hinweg ermöglicht, ist eine der spannendsten Gestaltungsherausforderungen für Marken, Verlage und Agenturen.
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Download the precious user, our generic user illustration with pop culture references – for free!
You have come across this: you’re working on a presentation and you need to show a generic user (which is absurd in itself, but anyway). You for sure did an image search or asked Iconfinder, but all you could find was glossy 3D rendered bodies with hairdos, but without faces. Or the exact opposite: bland pictograms that remind you of bathroom doors.
We prefer it graphically reduced, but not boring – so we developed our own generic user illustration. It’s basically made with simple geometric shapes, but we added a selection of well known pop culture symbols as shirt prints.
And the best thing: you can download them as vector data – for free! You can alter them just the way you like – in case you’re not into the logos we chose in the first place (we’d love to hear about your modifications!).
Version 5.5 of Reaktor, a modular software synthesizer environment whose user interface design we’re involved with since 2000, has been officially announced for public beta testing.
Until release later this year, registered Reaktor users can take part in a that public beta test and provide their feedback.
Some impressions from our first RSVP evening.
Our “classroom” at the Viktoria Kaserne.
The room is filling up.
Peter talks about the history of notation…
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Research School for Versatile People – a brand new series of events around Culture, Design and Technology in Hamburg.
RSVP – Research School for Versatile People is another joint venture with our dear friends and office mates Two Antennas. The idea is to organize events in Hamburg on an irregular basis. They can be carefully planned and curated or sometimes roughly patched together and announced with short notice. We’re going to host them at varied locations around town. Thematically, they will all meander around the topics of Culture, Design and Technology.
We’re happy to announce the first in a series for next week:
RSVP #1
Connecting visual interface and sound – from music notation to creative sonic interfaces
with Peter Kirn, a musician, media artist and journalist from New York
20.5.2010, 7.30pm
Frappant @ Viktoria Kaserne, Hamburg Altona
Please register yourself here.
Peter’s going to give a talk and after that, there’s plenty of room for discussion, drinks and music. We’re hoping to see you at RSVP sometime soon!
Interface design for a multi-touch remote control
Last year we worked with a start-up from Berlin on their first product, a multi-room audio system. The core of this new kind of hi-fi system is a remote control with a multi-touch interface. We developed a visual language for the controller software, which was then implemented and evolved by an in-house team.
The audio system, called Raumfeld, is now available for sale. The initial batch of preorders has been shipped to customers and the first favorable reviews are pouring in. It‘s a promising debut, constantly improved by a small, but talented and dedicated team. Definitely a company to keep an eye on!
More screens we designed
