Lights

Serendipity
Ellie Goulding’s Lights website I came across  this site, and liked what they did with the song and the real-time interaction. You go to this website, and you are taken into a journey by guiding this “light”, or rather, you are the light, traveling on this LED field beaming up to the beat. They integrated…

Everybody wants something real

Quotes
Last weekend, on the Grammy’s, while accepting Best Rock Performance, Dave Grohl thanked those who helped the band on their latest album, and gave a very cool speech: “To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play…

Defining moments

Defining AR and Historic trail We construct our reality around us through language. Language shapes and contains our ideas and our meanings. When I tell someone about my project, the person I’m talking to makes assumptions about what I do because of the associations or definitions that “design” or “interaction” or “animation” has. There is…

Sketchbook project

Here I’ll be posting ideas, sketches and thoughts as I ramble on paper and ink.  As part of my process and research, I’m trying to keep organized by having different notebooks: an everyday, passport-sized notebook that I carry around and write down ideas on the go like thoughts sparked by discussions and just everyday stuff.…

Decode: Digital Design Sensations

Serendipity
Decode: Digital Design Sensations An exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum, Decode is the exhibition I really, really wish I could have attended to. In its three main themes: Code, Interactivity, and Network, Decode looks at how the lines between art, design, technology and creator are blurred, as the spectator (as user and co-creator)…

Recap: NODE Berlin + Communication Week

Evolution
Communication Week Anders Hofgaard and Serge Rompza, from NODE Berlin gave us a one week workshop on publishing and communication. We presented what our projects are about, and also learned the importance of getting our work out there. Hence this blog! Although, I have to admit, this blog wasn’t so active back in November… Serge…

Petar Tale: down the rabbit hole

Serendipity
A few weeks ago I went to the National Gallery in Oslo with my visiting friends. We were about to go out he first room when, as I opened and closed the sketch drawer, a man approached me asking which one I liked best. “The one at the right” I said. When I looked up,…

Recap: Project Re-write

Evolution
Project Re-write The new tools, reference points and knowledge that has been planted in me since my arrival at Khio have changed the core of my MA project. A lot has been re-defined and explored, more so in the aspect of process, social responsivity and design thinking (the workshop held by Hellicar&Lewis was extremely eye-opening–thanks…