The 'Colour-In' Dress by Berber Soepboer and Michiel Schuurman brings a playful attitude to interactive fashion, allowing each dress to become a one-of-a-kind piece of wearable art reminiscent of elementary school days. The 'Colour-In' Dress is available for 238 Euro - textile markers included. See Soeboer's website for information on how to order.
Recently obsessed by Kinetic Sketch by Modern Carpentry and Thrid Ave Design. Kinetic Sketch is an ActionScript 3.0 physics based drawing tool with the ability to create remarkable images and patterns. In each drawing session, the user adds shapes filled with either a solid color, image, or webcam video into a two dimensional physical simulation. During the simulation, the shapes trace themselves on the canvas background based on the selected draw mode (normal, speed, or collision). Users can control other various properties during the process, including gravity and negative space, creating a powerful experience.
Visit the Kinetic Sketch or check out a gallery of selected images below.
Great video by StruckAxiom I found on The Flash Blog demonstrating Flash's multi-touch and gesture support capabilities.
More about the video:
Multi-Touching the Future
Read about the Flash techniques in the video:
Lessons Learned: Adventures in Multitouch
Information on the new API's that make multitouch available in Flash Player 10.1:
public final class Multitouch
PepsiCo Social Media Visualization from StruckAxiom on Vimeo.
Earlier this year I wrote about HYPE, a coding framework for non-developers and developers lacking a background in OOP to engage and learn ActionScript 3.0 through creative play. Recently I discovered Wonderfl, another amazing online resource and community to learn AS3. With Wonderfl, you write the AS3 code directly into the HTML form, and their server complies the code. If your code is valid, your SWF will be automatically shown beside your code. If your code contains errors they will show in the compiler.
In my opinion the remarkable thing about Wonderfl is the realtime aspect that allows to build and experiment without any Flash building tool and automatically see it in action. Also, in addition to instantly viewing your swf in your browser, code can be easily shared for others in the community to use and learn from, or 'fork.' Have a question on how to do something in Flash? If so, post your code and tag it 'question,' and someone else will fork and fix it. Overall, Wonderfl is a wonderful (ha!) learning tool that promotes experimentation and collaboration.
I've seen a few of Brooklyn based artist and designer Jonathan Harris's projects in the past few years, but recently have been rediscovering his work. Harris is know for creating projects that combine elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art, and storytelling to primarily visualize human relationships with each other and technology. Perhaps is profile on TED says it best,
Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world's expression -- and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet.
Scrollbars is one of many cool Javascript experiments by Andrey Yazev. View most of them in action on his Vimeo or give Scrollbars a shot yourself (requires Google Chrome or Safari 4).
Electronic Popables by Jie Qi is an interactive pop-up book that integrates traditional paper pop-up mechanisms with electronic components. Jie Qi is a mechanical engineering student at Columbia University who spent last summer researching with Dr. Leah Buechley in MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech group.
After the jump take a look at Jie Qi's blooming paper flowers.
Digital Dandelion is an interactive exhibit by YOKE and Sennep as part of Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Through the use of a hairdryer, the viewer blows the seeds of a projected dandelion on a screen. An infrared camera tracks an infrared beam of light coming from the tip of the hairdryer, allowing the viewer to regain control of the seeds ever after they have blown off. The resulting installation is a playful and magical experience.
Find out more about YOKE, the Dandelion project, or visit the site of one of my favorite design studios - Sennep.
Have fun playing with Pliable and Cubic Mirrors, two creative flash applications by Hitoshi Akira Nishimura at the source-laboratory. Both apps translate your computer's webcam in real time to isometric boxes or triangles. Check out the video below to see it in action or visit the links below to check it out live:
Other projects by source-laboratory worth checking out are:
Hybrid Brush
Face is Fake Video Study
(I just wish I could read Japanese . . . )
I'm not going to lie, the switch from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0 is quite painful. To make this transition easier, Branden Hall and Joshua Davis have developed a coding framework that works on top of AS3 as a tool for non-developers and developers lacking a background in object-oriented programming to engage and learn AS3 through creative play. While they do suggest users have a basic knowledge of programming, HYPE once again opens the Flash playing field to a broader scope of people curious and new to code.
Learn more about HYPE and download installation files below:
hype.joshuadavis.com
HYPE Demo : BOO! from Branden Hall on Vimeo.