The End of Mad Men

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It comes as no surprise that the official announcing of the next and last season of Mad Men comes during the same month that Business Week publishes the Design Issue where "Good Design is Less About Taste But More About Integrity". These words couldn't be…well…closer to the truth. It signifies the future.

In a world of corporate advertising buffs soul-starved on Madison Avenue with the mass exodus heading to Brooklyn in wild herds, the idea of the media bowing for integrity in design is a sigh of relief among all designers, creative experts, and entrepreneurs alike. Finally, FINALLY the world is noticing!

Because truthfully, communication is not meant to seduce the public. Communication should really be about sending a message of honesty. Of a world better served. That the be-end-all of sharing is not necessarily for profit, but for principle. For giving with a cause in mind. Because the world is bigger than a bubble.

And for this, I call upon a revolution. To honor beauty and utility (form and function) as a measure facilitated by true goodness. That we create not just for profit, but for higher purpose, one that is meant to actually make a difference in the world.

This is why I'm here. To speak to you about a life well lived where design and business are meant for the pure at heart in today's digital age. Because I know that navigating can be tough, especially as you don't know who to turn to anymore, who to believe.

I believe in honesty, integrity, and beauty with a purpose. Please join me on this path, won't you? The world is relying on you.

Audion - Subverticul

“Though his electro-pop tunes (and clothing sensibility) are as smooth as butter, Matthew Dear’s alter ego, Audion, reaffirms that the sinuous artist still has roots embedded in his Detroit hometown’s techno legacy. The warehouse-shaking electronic project has been on the low for five years, but this spring Audion returns with SUBVERTICUL, a brand spankin’ new live show that includes an iris-widening audiovisual spectacle. Watch the trailer above, directed byThe Work Inc.

SUBVERTICUL is an evolution of HECATOMB, the 2009 tour where Audion melted minds using tripped-out visual projections to match the warped four-on-the-floor beats. Dear’s side project is back with a supercharged revival, including a custom stage set built by Heather Shaw of Vita Motus, the infamous team behind Amon Tobin’s legendary ISAM tour that The Creators Project documented in all its projection-mapped glory. SUBVERTICUL will include a swath of LEDs, ebullient sound-reactive visuals, and a labyrinthine sculpture based off the Audion “A” that pulses, spins, and grows in response to the producer’s amorphous rhythms. Imagine the installations at a week-long electronic festival concentrated into one focused live show, and you’re still not close to the exhilarating experience of SUBVERTICUL. 

The performance had a soft premiere on February 22nd in Los Angeles, but the full-on debut kicks off at London’s Oval Space on May 4th, and will be followed by several festival dates around the world (see below for specifics). Audion will add more to this magic with a new album slated for some time in 2014.”

-From: The Creator’s Project

30,000 Liters Of Water

I'm a creative visionary and design nut living in Brooklyn, NY.

Truthfully, communication is not meant to seduce the public. Communication should really be about sending a message of honesty. Of a world better served. That the be-end-all of sharing is not necessarily for profit, but for principle. For giving with a cause in mind. 

We must create not just for profit, but for higher purpose, one that is meant to actually make a difference in the world.

This is why I’m here. To speak to you about a life well lived where design and business are meant for the pure at heart in today’s digital age. Because I know that navigating can be tough, especially as you don’t know who to turn to anymore, who to believe.

I believe in honesty, integrity, and beauty with a purpose. Please join me on this path, won’t you? The world is relying on you.

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Cloudscapes

“Cloudscapes is, in effect, an experiment in creating a new type of architectural space.”

Japanese architect Tetsuo Kondo has built a container of clouds, allowing visitors to experience an artificial sky inside a cleverly, and carefully, controlled environment.

Artist Berndnaut Smilde has achieved widespread fame over the past year for a series of carefully staged photographs that bring perfectly formed, fluffy white clouds indoors.

Whilst Smilde’s work provokes an immediate response, it only offers a visual appreciation of its subject. Architect Tetsuo Kondo has gone the extra step and recreated a cloud in its entirety, paying close attention to colour, density and movement. Whilst inhabiting Kondo’s installation, visitors are able to ascend through the clouds as if entering part of the sky itself.

The installation is housed in the Sunken Garden of the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tokyo, offering visitors the opportunity to experience the piece from the various areas of the museum, as well as allowing a view across the building tops of Tokyo from inside the cloud container.

The project faithfully recreates all the movement and unpredictability of a real-life sky; the clouds constantly shift position and density, and have been designed to function in sync with the time of day and the weather outside the box.

To sustain the clouds, the container holds a carefully controlled environment, with temperature and humidity set at specific levels, designed to ensure the clouds keep their shape and density.

Visitors are able to climb a set of stairs inside the container, and pass through the bank of clouds to reach the top, where they can view the surrounding Tokyo skyline.

“Cloudscapes is, in effect, an experiment in creating a new type of architectural space, one that achieves integration in engagement with its environment,” the studio explain, in a press release about the project.

http://luxuryinprogress.com/cloud-bank/

BIOSTAGOG

Platige Image and Bridge created BIOSTAGOG – an interactive sculpture which combines algorithmic design, 3D printing, mapping and interaction.
This parametrically generated, multicellular form has been integrated with projection and by that it gives a possibility of interaction between installation and its audience.
BIOSTAGOG can display creative content made by artists working at Platige Image and by using Kinect technology it may equally involve both the company staff and the visitors.
See more at
behance.net/gallery/BIOSTAGOG/7609469

Sonos Playground

Sonos Playground Deconstructed is a site-specific installation in the Nam June Paik / HBO Production Lab at the Museum of the Moving Image. It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spectacle: The Music Video. (April 3–June 16, 2013)

Visitors are able to select any song from an iPad and watch a visualization of the music projected onto the surrounding walls. Through motion-capture technology, visitors can interact with and manipulate the animation through movement.

The installation aims to bring minimalist art to life as an immersive music video environment. Inspired by the wall drawings of Sol LeWitt and the room-flooding sound of the Sonos Playbar, Sonos Playground was originally installed in a 250 sq. ft shed at the Sonos Studio at the 2013 SXSW festival. 

At Museum of the Moving Image, Sonos Playground Deconstructed has re-imagined the experience using five detached walls suspended above a reflective floor. Each of the walls has been painted with 27 1-inch wide white lines and 26 2-inch wide black lines. By mapping the white lines set between black lines we were able to create a more immersive and surreal environment.

Submergence Lights

Submergence Lights is an art installation that explores the immersion and interaction within volumetric light based visuals, created through 8,064 individual points of light…So as you can imagine, it gets pretty intense at its max, but subtle and delicate when it wants to be. The art installation can track and follow human movement, or deliver pre-designed 3D animations through the cube of light.