Have you made secret dens and forts out of blankets and pillows? Do you want to relive childhood? Or do you just have too much free time and tired of Netflix? IKEA’s quarantine campaign illustrates six ways to make furniture forts. If you don’t have the IKEA product, you can replace it for one that looks the same.
I have spent the week watching Abstract - 8 part Netflix Series about (I know I am a bit late, but since I have canceled my Netflix a couple of years ago, I try to drastically reduce my video consumption). Nevertheless, the series is especially uplifting. Each series tackles the old age question of what is “design”? However, instead of trying to defend design, assuming it’s marginalized, the series defends depth of “design” going beyond superficial aesthetics or styling.
> “You’re not changing somebody, you’re making them a more perfect vision than when you started.” Paula Scher
> “Do your homework before each project so the right feeling and connection comes through.” Platon
** Netflix has open the documentaries to public: which I think is highly admirable
Since 2013, at least once a year I would attend ITP show almost every year. The show was a platform for me to rector people, to research the latest techniques and just enjoy the projects people make just because they can. Since a lot of projects is a mix of digital and analogue, visitors meander through NYU floor, speaking to the creators of the projects and playing with the prototypes. Due to the pandemic, this year unfortunately the showcase in -person was not possible. However, to my delight and surprise, NYU have organized the showcase online, creating video-conferencing room for every graduate, simulating the traditional in-person experience where one can “chat with the creator”. No, it’s not the same as in-person, but it is the best we can have.
Here are some projects that caught my attention :
* Bobst - an app for better library experience. Obviously I ❤️ this.
* Happiness- a visualization & exploration of happy moments * Contemporary take on Religion: [God Design](https://www.chenhezhang.com/god-design)
* A Visual Retrospective of Digital Cameras - a nice way to create an interactive visualization of big volumes of historical data
* One hundred days of future sketches: 100 days of future sketches are my way to sketch out ideas of dynamic interactive/psychedelic visuals for web. - although very heavy performance on the browser
* AROUND US- nice data viz of Satellites
Noting that data visualizations are still relevant and popular forms of projects, however they have been morphing into more storytelling and story-scaling formats.
