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Philosophy. It’s just an idea.

‘ergo, viz a viz, concordantly, eleven herbs and spices…’

When it comes to architecture, churches have always had some of the most awe-inspiring, beautiful designs.

I guess every blogger runs the risk of announcing something huge only to have it smacked away. About 6 months ago it looked like I was a slam dunk for an interview with Amy Wells about “Mad Men”. Sigh. Well, I think I’ve officially been blown off.
It was all lined up – except a date [...]

Obviously inspired by the ubiquitous urban security camera, the Spoticam designed by Antrepo is a lamp that resembles a security camera. The Spoticam looks like the CCTV camera, with its adjustable arm, can be mounted wall or place on the table as a desk lamp. This lamp is just a concept for now, but I’m [...]

This is a post from the Freshome Magazine, who bring you the latest news in Interior Design, Decorating, Furniture and Architecture.

Lamp Inspired by a Security Camera

It was about time a designer found a way to eliminate the hard “chair” part of the chair, and Spanish designer Marti Guixé developed the Xarxa Sofa for the Italian brand Danese with just that intention.  Configured around a hidden wooden seat and buttressed by slim metal arcs, the Xarxa Sofa consists most prominently of [...]

This is a post from the Freshome Magazine, who bring you the latest news in Interior Design, Decorating, Furniture and Architecture.

The Xarxa Sofa: More Cushion than Pushin’

After recently attaching to a wireless network, I opened iTunes. All of a sudden I had access to over 30 different Music libraries, all holding vast quantities of music. My machine had identified over 30 different repositories of data sourced from my immediate surroundings.

This got me thinking about the wireless network as a formal construct. An invisible informatic dome. When you step into it an invisible layering of information saturates you. Though you need an electronic device to see it. All around us are evolving, animate bubbles of infinitely accessible data at the local and the web level.

The following diagrams show a non-specific shell, based on the blob (metaball software). A wireless transmitter in the scenario exhibited would be at the centrepoint of the sphere and disperse a spherical data shell. Small inflections and deformations in the spherical data shell would be created from the data shell’s surroundings (climatic conditions, built objects, other context, reflection, refraction of the signal). The size and shape of these formal constructs is a by-product of the signal strength and the technology associated with the transmitter.