London based Troika has been commissioned by Artwise Curators to create a signature piece at the entrance of the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5.

“In response, we created ‘Cloud’, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture. Flip-dots were conventionally used in the 70s and 80s to create signs in train-stations and airports. We were fascinated by their materiality, by the way they physically flip from one side to the other. The sound they generate is also instantly reminiscent of travel, and we therefore decided to explore their aesthetic potential in ‘Cloud’.”

The project took 8 months in development, manufacturing and installation. Troika was responsible for the concept, design, executive design and engineering, project, production and installation management, and over-viewing all the operations from start to finish.

Manufactured by Mike Smith Studio
Controls by Pharos Architectural Controls
Installation by Alternative Access

watch the video: www.troika.uk.com/cloudvideos.htm

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The Information Ring concept by Hideaki Matsui holds your personal information and captures others’. By shaking hands with someone, you exchange your data with them – data that can be reviewed at a later date on a special card (why not your laptop?).

http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2008/01/17/information-ring/

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Your workplace and the atmosphere surrounding you determine the way you work and explore your imagination. The more inspirational your workplace is, the easier it is to break the creativity block and discover new ideas. And apparently there is a number of things you can do to improve your personal workflow.

As a part of our Monday Inspiration series we present a dozen of creative and unusual workplaces; in the end of the post you’ll also find references to related resources, among them office design galleries and Flickr pools. They can serve as an inspiration once you’ve decided to spice up your work environment.

You can also click on the images — they lead to the sites from which the screenshots have been taken.

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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/12/10/monday-inspiration-creative-w...

Welcome to The CandyFab Project!

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has been overwhelmed by the response to its DIY sugar printer project, and has spun off CandyFab.org as a central site to coordinate development of the open source CandyFab Project, as well as to index and aggregate news, documentation, and resources related to it. Status updates will be linked from here as they happen.

http://candyfab.org/