The "Kinetic Sculpture" metaphorically translates into space the form-finding process of vehicle design. The interplay of mechanical and electronic components creates a dynamic art piece reflecting the precise exchange between a great number of individual elements and the single, coherent picture that emerges from them.
Attached by thin steel wires to individually-controlled stepper motors, 714 metal spheres move up and down, seemingly levitating.
The "Kinetic Sculpture" metaphorically translates into space the form-finding process of vehicle design. The interplay of mechanical and electronic components creates a dynamic art piece reflecting the precise exchange between a great number of individual elements and the single, coherent picture that emerges from them.
Attached by thin steel wires to individually-controlled stepper motors, 714 metal spheres move up and down, seemingly levitating.
For a special exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin ART+COM created its first multi-touch installation in 2004. On the nine by two meter table floats a continuous stream of numbers. Individual digits appear randomly at the surface of this stream and, once touched by a visitor, reveal their meaning in text, pictures, animation and small interactive applications.
The table itself is made out of wood and is very robust. On the underside of the tabletop a grid of in-house developed capacitive sensors are installed detecting the position of the visitors' hands. The content is computationally designed and generated in real time, communicating to the audience an autonomous behavioural system.
On behalf of the German Hygiene-Museum Dresden, ART+COM has developed a statistics strip for the exhibition "Work. Meaning and Worry" to visualise and process large volumes of data and facts. Like a recurring theme, the black aluminium strip folds along the walls and widens occasionally into graphs and charts of various types: 3-D lines, surfaces and columns, show extensive, transparent and easy to understand background information and amazing details.
Besides, seven interactive media stations with projections are integrated into the strip, where visitors can change different parameters by turning knobs and thus retrieve various data. 50 small monitors contrast the figures on the wall with individual perspectives: using touch screens, interviews with over 100 people are embedded into the statistics strip.
Peter L Phillips, who's spent 30 years as a corporate design director, explains how one small business wrote a design brief.
This is part of a free Design Council guide for small businesses, public services and anyone commissioning a designer.
designcouncil.org.uk/designbriefing
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