At the Smart City World Congress

At the Smart Cities Congress © 2011 Fabien. All rights reserved.

This week was dedicated to the Smart City World Congress in Barcelona. It was my first outing in a comfy Near Future Laboratory jumpsuit. With Nicolas, we are indeed slowly shutting down the mainframes at Lift Lab and relocating our … Continue reading

Airport Timer

Airport Timer © 2011 aaron. All rights reserved.

  There’s a passage in David Pascoe’s book Aircraft where he talks about how none of the airports of the time were prepared for the introduction of the 747. Specifically there was no part of the physical infrastructure of an … Continue reading

Portals

© 2011 Jayne. All rights reserved.

  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

Weekending 11272011

Saturday November 26 13:33 © 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

Whoa. Last week? Well — it was a short one. It was quiet ’round the studio. Which meant that quite concentrated bits of work could happen. Advanced Projects Tippy-Top News — the Project Humbo set is done for Project Audio … Continue reading

Introducing Jayne Vidheecharoen

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The Near Future Laboratory is going through a revamping and an expansion of sorts. There’ll be some changes for #2012 — new people, new projects, new initiatives, new strategies for global domination in the realm of thought-provoking unprofitable improbable unbuildable … Continue reading

Weekending 10302011

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Oh, okay. Last week I was in London. There was some fun, cool Nokia stuff going on — besides Nokia World, which I didn’t attend only because there were also other things going on, including this event at the Design … Continue reading

Thrilling Wonder Stories..London Edition

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Thrilling Wonder Stories WONDER STORIES 3 Live in London and New York Oct 28th Created by Liam Young [Tomorrows Thoughts Today] And Geoff Manaugh [BLDGBLOG] In Association with the Architectural Association, Studio-X NYC, Popular Science We have always regaled ourselves … Continue reading

Weekending 10232011

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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

Design and Storytelling at AIGA Pivot

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Back in 2010 at the University of Michigan Taubman School’s conference on “The Future of Technology” is where I first started thinking about the future as represented in graphs. I brought this visual graphical prop back again at the AIGA … Continue reading