Raquo Journal » Design

Falkirk wheel

raquo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:27:07 +0000

Awesome engineering and design.

BMW GINA concept

raquo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:40:52 +0000

Looking back at latest BMW design trends, I couldn’t expect anything great from these guys. However, this time they have something really interesting.

More photos at Wired.

US average Joe spending

raquo — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:52:32 +0000

New York Times is really good in non-trivial yet useful data visualizations. Here’s a fragment of the most recent one (click to view full interactive version):

Visualizing CO2 emissions

raquo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:26:00 +0000

Australian eco-awareness ad, via O’Reilly Radar

And let them see what they do

raquo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:12:46 +0000

Usually we think of the consequences of our actions after we act. Or maybe it’s not even us who acts, we just give them a silent permission. And maybe the consequences are unobservable if not looked for specifically.

The way the latest major US democracy export incident was conducted could have been evaluated more rationally by ordinary people, immediately after it began. If only what is pictured below had been installed in sufficient number of places.

That’s a Matthew Gale’s concept of a living memorial. The black liquid is oil and a gallon of it is added to the pool with every battlefield causality. The more cruel is the war — the more apparent, noxious becomes the memorial and the harder it is to ignore it.

Also be sure to check out Ambient devices and Nuage Vert which materialised just recently.

Visualizing music lyrics

raquo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:11:23 +0000

They’ve gathered a big Flickr set of infographics related to music lyrics. The above is my favourite — Madonna’s “Don’t cry for me, Argentina”. Click the image to explore more than a hundred others. Via Information Aesthetics.

Hang drum

raquo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:23:00 +0000

Sounds wonderful. Invented in the XXI^st century. Art in its commonsense meaning is not dead yet. Wikipedia about hang drum

The age of design

raquo — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:44:39 +0000

This is Cirrus, The Jet. Look at it. What do you see? I see a live thing… A fish, a dolphin, or a shark possibly. The last thing I think of looking at it is the technology behind it — the engine, the wires inside, etc. It’s hidden deep in the beauty and liveliness of design. Hmm… Did you think of Apple too? Just compare it to Eclipse Concept Jet:

Yes, I know that ECJ is already flying while The Jet is only a wooden model. I see there aren’t even seat belts on it yet. But believe me, The Jet will be a live thing. Only its name reminds me of what it really is. Apple, Cirrus… They make me thinking, whether I will be living in my age, in the age of Design? I hope.