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The ventilation stripes used on Apple products from 1984 to 1990 were part of a design language developed by Frog Design called Snow White. “The Snow White design language was an industrial design language developed by Frog Design, founded by Hartmut Esslinger. It was used by Apple Computer from 1984 to 1990. It is characterised…
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‘Icon Minds: Design Fiction’
‘Icon Minds: Design Fiction’ aftercyberpunk: ‘If you were a science fiction writer and you were reading, say, Scientific American you would have at least an 18-month lead over the general population in which you could write a story about something in a laboratory and it would appear in a pulp magazine and people would read…
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A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome. (Salen + Zimmerman 2004, p80). It is useful to understand games in general. We can rapidly explore paper-based games. We can explore rules as interconnected systems. We can explore “artificial conflict”. We can…
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Design Fiction – Creative play & imagining the future today
pivotdesign: “You never change things by fighting the existing model. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller The pioneering American computer scientist Alan Kay observed, famously, that “the best way to predict the future is to invent it.” In that spirit, he devised the Dynabook,…
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elephantcandy: knockman May-wa Denki, the artist-musicians, created a line of wind up toys called the Knockman Family. Each performs an activity and makes a different sound. This is the original knockman, he clangs his head and beats it like a drum. http://maywa.laff.jp/blog/ (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)