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 Principles              Karmen Franinovic is a Canadian architect that creates works of interactive technology and installs them in a public space to stimulate social interaction and bring awareness to peoples surroundings. One of her most interesting pieces is called Recycled Soundscape, and it is a system that explores…

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….

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…

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….

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…

           The six fundamentals of art are truly important in order for the piece to be seen as true art or a master piece. The six fundamentals are balance, proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast, and space. Balance is important because you do not want the art to be off scale in some…

Trouble at the Interface 2.0 – Cyborg and Extended Self Extended Self By Bill Bailey   While reading the extended self, my thoughts drifted to the public’s quick reception to these adaptations on such technologies.  Along with the assistance from the ever-growing feedback of many leading enthusiast communities that supply this technologies advancement at an…

Talk of Haptics, Telematics and Prosthetics- the whole idea of technology as an extension of the self and its senses and capabilities- and being present somewhere even when you are physically far away. These concepts brought to my mind a lot of the themes presented in a cult classic anime series, Ghost In The Shell (pictured here, images from…

Interactive Games:Out with the Old in with the New Artwork by Toshio Iwai What caught my attention in this article was noticing the interaction between playing video games and the relationship with them. Even thought now interactive media has now become more complex as stated in the article, people tend to draw the line on what’s…

While reading the article “Extended Self”, written by Ken Rinaldo, I came across the picture of a man with three arms. The art piece is labeled as “Third Hand” by Stelarc. With this in mind, I decided to do more research on what else Stelarc has made while using technology as an extension of the…

As I was reading through “Cyborg and the Extended Self” I was very heavily reminded of the show “Ghost in the Shell”, which has many iterations and a few movies but the series as a whole is what I was reminded of. This show is a futuristic world in which cyborgs and people both exist,…