Volume is at V&A Victoria and
Albert
Museum in
London. Garrett showed me this. Looks amazing on video. Love to go and see this at
London. I think I will take a trip up there soon! 

The volume is a interaction sculpture which is made up from columns of shaped like obelisks. They are positioned for a dramatic effect to capture the eye’s attention and imposing feature. The columns interact with passers by.  This creates a range of visual and audio reactions and experiences for the visitors. Going in further in the Volume triggers light and sound to what you have done. This gives the visitor to admire actions and interact in this staged environment.

Idea

The product that will produce is an interactive Kiosk for a majorArt
Gallery. The gallery will be the Tate Modern as it was one of the places discussed when thinking about the concept. This would be availble in the main sections of the gallery to be fully used.

Kiosk will provide a map and information of different gallery locations. So the vistors can plan their visit and go to where they want to go, rather than going everywhere to find what they want. The Kiosk will have a interactive gallery of pieces of work by artists at the chosen sections. For example the surrealist art.I would should artists work such as Salvdor Dali and Marcel Duchamp. That you would pull and drag from the selection of paintings and sculptures of your chose. This would fill a demand that not everyone can understand what the work means. And you could click a element of the piece at a highlighted section. It would give a brief decribtion of the work as a whole. And brodern the general understanding of the indivdual person.

Research Motion Wall

www.nanikawa.com

Motion wall was created by Nanika. They were hired by Projector to make interactive designs for a Japanese gadget store Beyes. They have explored many areas of interactive design pushing to the limits. They did this by doing projects of Nokia and Sony. Because of this they have created some beautiful work that shows colour and shape as spectacular art forms. All the interactive displays have a individual mesmerising impact. It works by using motions of people acting in front of the screen or passers by. The store is equipped with a projection system and sensors to capture every movement of the individual. It creates a range of endless shapes and colours. Lets visitor in the store interact in the environment and creates buzzer organic imagery. Looks fun!

Argos Kiosks

Fresca a web agency was appointed to design and produce a self service kiosk for
Argos. This came about as many of Argos’s customers wanted to have the same experience of buying items from the internet in their high street stores.

This solution lets Argos customers to check stock availability and place their order, pay for the item using the kiosk, avoiding the need to visit a till point. This saves the customer time and hassle.Argos as well saves time and money.

The kiosk enables their customers to escape the busy queens inside the store. It also has a feature to have certain items to be home delivered. Rather than queued in store to find out if it could be delivered. This I found has been a worth wild trip, rather than getting stressed out waiting.

Fresca designed and built the interface with easy to use navigation for anyone to use. They integrated the application with Argo’s EPOS system which they use in store.EPOS system is needed to operate the store tills; this is an efficient point of sale whilst at the same time enabling you to keep track of the stock available in store and overall business activity. The system can also look and check customer accounts, stock control and report on facilities that are available for staff and cutomers.

This gives the company control of the store, stock, staff and money. And customers one on one with the brand to get what they want when they want it.Epos system can be used by Pc’s, Pc’s-tills, Stock computers, billboards, cash machines, touch screens, chip and pin and barcode printers.

Magazines

Found some good magazines that could help us with this assignment. Very read, helpful articles and tutorials! Nice!!!! Computer Arts Projects Interactive Design It’s got a cool cover uniquely interactive cover which will react to your touch! How is that!

Did some research it’s thermochromic’ printing technology! oooooooooooooooo!

Colour change effect where it reacts to repeatedly to hot and cold temperatures. And different light sources.

Has useful flash tutorials to make work interactive. Articles about companies that make interactive products.

Computer Arts Projects Packaging Design Has a range of templates and tutorials. And articles about different packaging and companies. Books Couple of books I think are great for this! Designing Interactions Bill Moggridge Comes with DVD with interviews from IDEO designers. Interesting how they cam up with the concepts, ideas and designs. How the end product has made a impact. It interesting how the product evolved. DVD Art: Innovation in DVD Packaging Design Charlotte RiversCD – Art: Innovation in CD Packaging Design Charlotte RiversBooks about packaging of popular and unusual CDs and DVDs from the global. Worth a look! Mapping an Illustrated Guide to Graphic Navigational Systems Roger Fawcett-Tang Essays by William Owen

This film was made for the 2 Days Later competition. It’s been nominated for the top ten. Made by (Chris Reynolds, Fran Shine, Chris Russell, Marcus Roberts and Liam Dermott) Plus an magical performance of an lifetime by Stephen Moorhouse! “MUST SEE”

The prize-giving and screenings of the top-10 is this Saturday (28th) at the Pharmacy Gallery in Margate old town 7pm + band & DJ. Come along, support your course and, to quote Alan – “get chilled to the bone!”