Slow Design Examples Just last Year, the Burning Man festival in Nevada had a very interesting sculpture put up that revealed a very powerful message. This sculpture called “Love” by Alexander Milov happened to be the very first art piece from the Ukraine, and also the first piece to receive a festival grant in over…
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Slow Design Principles Blog 1 George Cepeda
Journey Inwards by Janne Parviainen In this piece the author, Janne Parviainen uses light manipulation to create a figure of four people sitting together in meditation. The point is to do as little post production work as possible and produce images directly from the camera. In this work the principle of expand is demonstrated here…
Slow Design Principles and Fantasy Projects
Kinetic Rain, Joachim Sauter, 2012 “Kinetic Rain” is an installation piece by Joachim Sauter located in the Singapore Airport. There are 608 droplets made of aluminum covered with copper. The droplets are controlled by a computer hidden in the ceiling. The droplets move together, reacting and responding to each other’s movements. The installation utilizes the…
Blog #1 Slow Design Principles Abby Atwood
10.000 moving cities – same but different by Marc Lee, 2010is an installation piece with a variety of boxes which each have videos playing across their surfaces. These videos consist of many different things that happen in a city street. There are also sounds that play, that are the sounds of the city streets, music…
Research about slow design
6 principle of design are balance, proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast and space. Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci (Balance/golden ratio) Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol (Proximity, Alignment, Repetition, Contrast) Now day, people more welcoming healthy slow food than fest food. Here is slow design that our life will be healthy. What is slow design? Design that is not…
Slow Design
Slow Design By: Dziedzom A. Bansah The Slow Design movement has become popular. According to Fuad-Lake, Slow Design is “a new evaluative tool to encourage design practices to orientate towards social, cultural and environmental sustainability.” There are six principles that classify slow design projects. The first principle of slow deign that I chose was reflect….
Slow design research
Fritz Haeg’s Edible Estates is a good example of slow design in that it requires many active participants to evolve into something that could change the world. Edible Estates is the idea that in our front yards’ participants plant gardens instead of just grass. The idea is that we connect more with our environments. This…
Slow Design Labs Principles
Advanced technology is usually seen as something that is far off and incomprehensible, but many aspects of new media art bridges that gap. The slowLab conducted research and collected 6 principles of design projects. These principles include: To begin with, Chris Milk’s “The Treachery of Sanctuary” falls under the third principle, which is to reflect….
Slow Design Research
The principles of Slow Design can be applied in many facets of life, from artworks to large computer systems. The first project which displays some principles of Slow Design is the Philips Tea Maker (pictured above). This tea maker is a water kettle and tea pot in one. Once the water is done boiling, the…
Creative Switch: Gamecube Controller Light
For the project, I decided to make a nightlight using a broken Gamecube controller I found. It uses a tilt switch, so when you hold it at a certain angel, the LEDs will light up! Materials: Gamecube Controller (preferably broken or old) Screwdriver 4 LEDs Resistor (Resistance depends of LEDs used) Plastic-covered Wire 2 3V…
Creative Switch – Model Guitar: Tani Friese Have you ever been rockin’ out on your guitar and thought, “Damn, I wish these strings would light up,”? Well, now they can! In this descriptive post, I will present a makeshift guitar whose “strings” light up when strummed. By looking at this completed model, you can see…
Creative Switch: Light Up Drawing Tool
Aluminum foil is wrapped around a lightweight wooden panel which rests on a stand made from aluminum coil. When not in use, the three LEDs on the right side of the drawing panel are off. The pencil shown is connected to a 9v battery on the back of the panel. Because the graphite inside the…