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initial ideas

sketches

scenario & proposal

prototype

Light Box

Final: some ideas

Need to answer:
1) objective
2) context
3) user
4) design criteria
5) solution

Scratch and Sniff Tattoos:
Combine scratch n sniff stickers, with tattoos, and lotto tickets

http://www.bsl-labs.com/proddetail.php?i=159

Zoetrope light:
Combine idea of zoetrope, moving image, shadows, light.
Not sure what the user interaction will be...

http://www.centres.ex.ac.uk/bill.douglas/Schools/animation/animation4.htm
http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/PPE%20pause/Zoetrope%20layers.jpg
http://itp.nyu.edu/~df785/cabinets/assets/shadowlighta.jpeg
http://electroland.net/flash.php (projects > Hollywood)
http://dma.ucla.edu/gallery/faculty_gallery.php?ID=104

I love this lamp by Tord Boontje.

link to Cabinets of Wonder final page.

At this point, I'm just throwing up links of interest, and doing some free association... easy way for me to store some thoughts and links. Not necessarily related to this project, possible thesis ideas:

Looked at some stuff they've been doing at Philips. The topic are for MIME: intimate media -- is pretty interesting, but I can't say I've terribly excited by any of their concept projects. Granted, this work is pretty dated.

I love this project! If only I were half as clever as this guy.
Description (from his site):
Heat generated by halogen lights activates a propeller and thus movement in the Dancing Shades lamp. The lamp projects shadows on the wall that create the same type of relaxing and hypnotic atmosphere that reflections of moving water create.

http://www.tjep.com/things/dancing/index.html

The rest of his work is up at: http://www.tjep.com/studio.html

I like this lamp, though it's static. It'd be nice to see a dynamic version of this -- I was interested in how different cut outs can make moire patterns: http://www.scandinaviandesign.com/louispoulsen/0509/

Looking over some stuff last week with Therese, about memories, secrets, and wishes, made me think of the last scene in "In the Mood For Love" when Tony Leung's character whispers his secret into a hole in the temple, and then covers it with dirt.

Memories, secrets, wishes: Japanese temples.... (from http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2059.html)

Ema: Shrine visitors write their wishes on these wooden plates and then leave them at the shrine in the hope that their wishes come true. Most people wish for good health, success in business, passing entrance exams, love or wealth.

Omikuji: Omikuji are fortune telling paper slips found at many shrines and temples . Randomly drawn, they contain predictions ranging from daikichi ("great good luck") to daikyo ("great bad luck"). By tying the piece of paper around a tree's branch, good fortune will come true or bad fortune can be averted.

ema (votive plaques) http://www.geocities.com/votiveema/
omikuji: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omikuji

Ingo Maurer's lamp

This lamp has love letters on it. What if instead of love letters, I could make make some networked repository/light/object where people could leave their wishes or get good forturnes. A cross between and ema or omikuji and Ingo Maurer's Zettel'z 5 lamp.

Some great work here by hehe -- it's a little overwhelming. This project in particular uses blowing/breath... Take a look at the closeup -- that's paper cup as diffuser -- inspired material choice

On a different note: Creepers, by Future Factories: lighting/room divider

Completely unrelated, but totally inspired, a prayer rug that grows brighter the closer it points towards Mecca:

more projects with electroluminescent material:
digital dawn, also a shade

a clock by Sam Buxton, and "Surface Intellingent Objects" on the right

Some lamps from MoCoLoCo that have piqued my interes, none of them are interactive, but they have the potential to be...

interactive seating/lighting, more info, also available here...

simple, maybe a bit too simple -- would've made a great networked objects project. amis by peel. more info here. Cubes glow brighter the closer they get.

On the topic of networked objects, this project is awesome: networked rocking chairs, "Remote Furniture" by Noriyuki Fujimura

These (random-international) guys do some inspired and witty work.

The Sunlight Table:
From their description:
The resulting artefact "The Sunlight Table" brings natural light into workspaces and creates unspoken, ambient interactions while working. By doing so, it encourages a dialogue between work and nature and re-establishes a connection with the outside world.
The table is populated with optical fibres creating a “sunlight display grid” on the surface of the table. The fibres are connected to a second input grid placed on a window. Light and shade are transmitted from the window through the fibres and into the table.

also, this...