If you can remember a time before Instagram, there was – and still very much, is – another way of making photographs all nostalgia-tinged, sunshiney and imbued with an ambience that playfully whispers ‘my life is definitely cooler and more fun than yours.’ If you haven’t got on board the Lomo train and you’re in … Continue reading
Author Archives: CuratedFutures
Skiing In ‘Alpine’ Copenhagen
This project for a Waste-to-Energy Ski Slope in Copenhagen by architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), lept to our attention as it combines three of our favourite subjects; snow sports, design and sustainability awareness! Finally breaking ground on 4th March 2013, the Amagerforbrændingen as it’s known, will take the city’s waste and burn it to create … Continue reading
Mine Kafon Rolls Onwards
Massoud Hassani’s Mine Kafon project came to our attention earlier last year, having tuned in via the powerful and beautifully filmed short by Callum Cooper. We learned how a child’s wistful imagination had produced a humble wind-powered toy which, along with it’s owner had ‘grown up’, into an idea that could potentially save lives by helping clear landmines in … Continue reading
Jewellery To Create (Fashion) Statements Of A Different Kind
The series of mechanical jewellery by artist/designer Jennifer Crupi encourages gesture. Various iterations of the concept force an action – such as the ‘power gesture’ which requires the user to assume the authoritative ‘steepled fingers’, or the ‘leg bouncer (stress expresser)’ which focuses on the anxious tick. The pieces amplify habits and positions we engage … Continue reading
The Test
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
A Red Planet All Of Our Very Own
Check out these eerily beautiful landscape photographs by Richard Mosse using a rare technique produced by Kodak Aerochrome, a product developed for military use. via Design Boom Continue reading
Skate Escalation – Kilian Martin
It’s Sunday, let’s take 5… Love this, sublime. Music by Patrick Watson. Continue reading
The Future Of Learning
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help design the School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from each other — using resources and mentoring from the Cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE). Continue reading
Shopping Till The Penny Drops… Then What?
Having worked for some years as a design and retail consultant, I have been dismayed by the over-saturation of faceless, spirit-less high streets and shopping centres throughout the UK, as a shopper as well as a professional. Where visiting large towns or city centres such as Reading, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, London or even farther, cities … Continue reading
Touching The Void – SpaceTop 3D Computer Unveiled
A transparent computer allowing users to reach inside and touch digital content has been unveiled at the TED 2013 conference in Los Angeles. TED fellow Jinha Lee has been working on the SpaceTop 3D Desktop – a system which consists of a transparent LED display with built-in cameras that track the user’s gestures and eye … Continue reading
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