Soundmachines

Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.

The Berlin-based studio The Product for “spatial and media-related design” created the Soundmachines for VW’s premiere of the 2012 Beetle at the IAA Motor Show.

Little Printer
This tiny, ticker-tap like device from BERG design consultancy is their latest product launch that merges digital and physical to create a fun and playful gadget.

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

From looking at the Little Printer site, it appears that it is the first of many playful home electronic products that they plan on launching for their new BERG Cloud device that lives on your home’s network.
Previous posts about BERG - Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting and Shuu.sh Twitter reader

Little Printer

This tiny, ticker-tap like device from BERG design consultancy is their latest product launch that merges digital and physical to create a fun and playful gadget.

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

From looking at the Little Printer site, it appears that it is the first of many playful home electronic products that they plan on launching for their new BERG Cloud device that lives on your home’s network.

Previous posts about BERG - Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting and Shuu.sh Twitter reader

space150 v27

Every 150 days the innovative mid-west agency space150 updates their entire corporate identity from business cards to website to environmental design on the agency’s doors. The futuristic branding for v27 was created in collaboration with designer and entrepreneur Taylor Pemberton.  If you visit space150’s site now you’ll see they recently moved on from v27 to v28.

Additional credits on the project from the space150 team:
Design - Andrew Ridgeway, Michael Seitz, and Matt Kuglitsch
UX - Shawn Kardell
Created by - Courtney Davis, and Heather Chau
Written by - Jon Resheske
Video production - ThreeVolts
Creative Direction - Billy Jurewicz, and Ned Wright

Thanks Ned for the additional credits over email!

We’re All in this Together | Method on Virgin

Three Legged Legs joined forces with agency Droga5 to create this animated spot for Method Cleaners to air on Virgin flights.  The characters and animations are incredibly well done, but the most impressive fact is that the piece wasn’t created in After Effects or Flash but all the animation was done in Photoshop.

Here are a few images from the “making of” post on Three Legged Legs site:

Three Legged Legs - Method character sketchesThree Legged Legs - Method mood boardThree Legged Legs - Method Photoshop animation timeline

Found on Jack on Adobe

Instaprint

A few weeks ago at Tumblr’s SXSW party I meet Andrew Zolty and Mattias Gunneras who co-founded BREAKFAST, physical-digital interactive agency.  As an agency that hacks and creates physical toys that hook up to the digital world.  Everything from a Conan auto-Foursquaring blimp, b-line a batphone for prospecting new clients, an office music democratizer, fresh bread that tweets (while the founders were still at POKE), and now Instaprint.

A Location Based Photo Booth for Instagram

At the Tumblr party they stuck the device off in a corner and every time someone to an Instagram photo and set the location to The Highball in Austin one of the two Instaprint devices would print out the photo Polaroid-style.  The team at BREAKFAST did a brilliant job hacking together the Instagram API, location-based services and a ZINK printer to bring the digital into the real world.

Check out the gallery of all the Instaprint live and past events and dig around BREAKFAST’s website.  I’m expecting big things from this relatively new agency.