Japanese industrial design 1960s-1980s
I recently read about how transistor technology enabled a whole new range of products, or at least the shrinking of products. Japan was an early adopter of transistors…
Category: product design
VR events, brand collabs, breaking physics, socially distant live events
After reading Monique van Dusseldorp’s most excellent new newsletter on the future of (hybrid) events, I re-watched this Travis Scott x Fortnite video from April 2020. At the…
Essential writing from 2016
As 2017 is picking up steam and (especially under the ThingsCon banner) we’re working to make it a pivotal year for the creation of a [responsible & human-centric…
#Homelab Kitchen at Mozfest
At this year’s [Mozfest](http://2015.mozillafestival.org), Alexandra ([designswarm](http://designswarm.com)) and I teamed up and, with support from the excellent Marcel & Harm ([The Incredible Machine](http://the-incredible-machine.com)) joined the BBC R&D Homelab with…
Understanding the Connected Home: Shared connected objects
_This blog post is an excerpt from **Understanding the Connected Home**, an ongoing exploration on the implications of connectivity on our living spaces. ([Show all posts on this…
The 1926 Frankurt kitchen and what connected kitchens can learn from it
In 1926, Austrian arthitect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed the Frankfurt kitchen [[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen)], a kitchen concept aiming to be affordable and enable efficient work.  _Image: [Frankfurt Kitchen (Wikimedia Commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frankfurterkueche.jpg))_…
Understanding the Connected Home: Augmentation not Automation
_This blog post is an excerpt from **Understanding the Connected Home**, an ongoing exploration on the implications of connectivity on our living spaces. ([Show all posts on this…