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Boundaries separating “what is human” from “what is machine” seem to be dissipating in our age of increasing artificial intelligence. How do these blurring lines currently affect the work of designers, especially within the context of immersive and interactive experiences? A new art installation at the Tate Modern explores one possibility where floating machines interact with themselves, humans and the museum environment.
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Endpoint’s wayfinding design director, Alison Richings, was recently invited to converse with writer and podcast host, Mark Heywood, on her specialist topic—as part of a series on how writers create characters and settings.
If you’ve been missing a crowd, this could be the answer: Universal Everything’s open world VR experience "Emergence" is now available free on Steam VR for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Valve Index headsets.
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In the first of a new series of "Lockdown Talks," from SEGD's London Chapter, watch Lucy Holmes, of Holmes Studio interview Alan Kitching remotely from his south London studio.
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Globally, for the first time, we are all experiencing a disruption to our lives that we could never have imagined. My mantra for this year was already "to hold my nerve." I could not have predicted how relevant that has come to be.
Despite a growing movement for corporate diversity and bias trainings, many employees still experience the dehumanizing and daily impacts of bias and discrimination. We’ve become more informed, but not necessarily transformed.
As experience designers, the team believed that addressing bias in our own workplaces and culture required a new approach—to shift these trainings from intellectual understanding to emotional awakening. Make Some Room is an immersive workshop that marries storytelling and space to change hearts, not just minds.
Over the last 10 years, visitor numbers at the V&A have tripled. In order to protect its future, the design team was asked to create a comprehensive wayfinding system unifying seven miles of galleries across three interconnected buildings, five temporary exhibition spaces, four shops, three cafés and 60,000 objects to enable the V&A’s 4 million annual visitors from across the world to explore the museum with renewed confidence and curiosity.
Self-employed designers impacted by coronavirus will be eligible for grants worth up to 80 per cent of their average monthly earnings from June, the UK government has announced.
While many people will associate fungus with moldy food or damp woodlands, a new exhibition at London's Somerset House is hoping to shift perceptions by highlighting the real-world wonders of mushrooms—and the creative figures fascinated by them.
