Undesign

Ear Freshener — PCB Layout © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

This Is What I Sent — The Ear Freshener PCB Design

Here’s the current PCB CAD for the Ear Freshener. It’s sorta got two sides, but on the top I basically have a carrier for another board that contains the audio codec device. The components around it are all the brains … Continue reading

Jayne's Portals Light Box © 2012 Nicolas. All rights reserved.

Weekending 21012012

Fabien and Nicolas went to Madrid for a workshop at BBVA innovation about Smart Cities. Organized by Urbanscale (and more specifically by Jeff Kirsh, Adam Greenfield and Leah Meisterlin), it focused on opportunities to use networked data for the client. … Continue reading

© 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

Short Note — The Product Design Venn Diagram: Updates

This is maybe even less than a short note to point to a little more conversation that @bruces and others are having regarding the Hubberly Venn Diagram I mentioned a few blog posts ago. @AnneGalloway took some fast-furious notes of … Continue reading

© 2011 Jayne. All rights reserved.

Portals

  I love the magically mundane virtual real world of Google Streetview, and like others I’ve longed for my 15 frames of blurry low-res Street View fame. So I’ve been wondering, how can I get into Street View without having to stalk the car … Continue reading

© 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

Weekending 11132011

Hello. It’s time for the weekending post. A few things. First — I was introduced to this graphic above from @bruces. It shows a Venn diagram showing a kind of perspective of what-could-be. For that reason, I chose to interpret … Continue reading

© 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

Weekending 10232011

Okay. Maybe we will get back into the swing of the weekending note. This one won’t be comprehensive, but a note nonetheless to note a few things. First, something I found while flipping through the Internet that got me thinking … Continue reading

© 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

Design Fiction + Advanced Designing + Trust in Volume Quarterly

The most recent — now a month or two old — issue of Volume Quarterly was on the topic of The Internet of Things. And within that was a small sub-volume of essays and articles on Trust compiled by Scott Burnham … Continue reading

© 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

Pneu. Ma. Tique.

Thus uttered Antoine Doinel in Truffaut’s film “Stolen Kisses” as a farewell letter to Madame Tabard is shussh-ered off through the Parisian pneumatic tube postal system.. Just enjoyed a coffee and reading Molly Steenson‘s article called Interfacing with the Subterranean … Continue reading

© 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

Quiet But Not Quiescent

<img src="“/> Judge not the less yammer-y state of the studio blog to indicate that there is nothing worth yammering about. It’s just that the clang of steel caressing code has been going on and that in great measure, too. … Continue reading

© 2010 Julian. All rights reserved.

Partial Truths: To Do Something Interdisciplinary

“Interdisciplinary work, so much discussed these days, is not about confronting already constituted disciplines (none of which, in fact, is willing to let itself go). To do something interdisciplinary it’s not enough to choose a “subject” (a theme) and gather … Continue reading

Nokia N900 Hacks

Nokia is a gigantic battleship, and in some of that ship’s little corners, quite intriguing things happen that are quite consistent with the sensibilities of play, exploration and making new meanings, and especially inverting existing assumptions or retracing histories. I … Continue reading