"What Google’s doing here is taking the business model that they’ve perfected in the online world and bringing it into the real world" Opinions vary widely, but the experiment is rolling out and being modified as they learn about usage patterns.
SEGD is an amazing community of designers, fabricators and manufacturers who create experiences that connect people to place. One of the many membership benefits of SEGD is a library of talks from SEGD's 4-6 events a year. Starting from 2014, these videos are available for viewing for members for free. If you are a member please log in (hint: top right below search) if not please join SEGD and experience its amazing resources.
Flavia Sparacino is an MIT Media Lab PhD, a prolific inventor, and founder and CEO of Sensing Places LLC. MIT granted Flavia Sparacino 13 technology licenses for her inventions, the highest number of intellectual property licenses that MIT has ever awarded after Amar Bose. Her work on gesture control and body-driven dance, music, and gaming applications came 12 years before the launch of Microsoft Kinect and five years before Spielberg’s Minority Report movie was released (as documented by the Discovery Channel feature on her work).
Chris Whalen is a strategic, multidisciplinary designer / writer & art director with an eye for innovation and pixel perfection. Chris has worked with clients such as Santander Bank, Philadelphia Eagles, Madame Tussauds, Nordstrom and Westfield, to name a few.
Peter White has been working in architecture, interior design and exhibit design for 33 years. In 1991 he formed White Design Studio setting up shop in the historic Old Town Center in Mariemont, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. While most firms focused on one or two mediums, Peter White focused on providing integrated design solutions across all mediums for his clients.
Remember that Rubik's Cube you burned thousands of hours trying to figure out? Javier Lloret channeled the tantalizing, obsession-making tactile game into a building-size interactive puzzle. It certainly clicked with the 2014 SEGD Design Awards jury, and it will click with you, too. Check it out and get inspired to enter your projects in the 2015 Design Awards. But hurry, you only have 3 more days!
