With the guidance of their studio leaders Brett Renfer and David Harvey the Hi-fi/Lo-fi team presented a stunning result to our “NYPL” challenge on Friday: From a “Hi-fi” digital waterfall of content visitors (aka us) can choose the items they are most interested in, including ...
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Day 9: Are Pipe Cleaner People for 3D-Shy People?
My background is in web design and development, so I am clearly a 2D person. Looking around me I experience a fascinating range of different approaches how people start to build stuff:
The “2D “photoshop and slide show character”: Some people immediately dive into their laptops – creating awesome presentation decks and Photoshop mockups for whatever ideas they have come up with. (not me unfortunately, but ...
Day 8: Pentagram and Raft Architects at NYPL (Some Research)
After our NYPL briefing I googled what other designers and architects had done at NYPL in the past:
An impressing exhibition was done by Pentagram in the Gottesman Gallery in 2011 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
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Day 7: Robert Krulwich on How to Treat Your Audience
- Help the audience to become your co-authors.
If you actively involve your audience in your presentation EITHER give clear instructions in the beginning OR – if you do not want to spoil the surprise – make sure that the process is easy and repetitive so that the audience can figure out what is going on.
- Keep the audience in first place, your panic second.
Always remember what ...
Day 6: Toilet Seats
“Toilet seats. Slightly off in size”, Alisha says, “or in height – so that the seat is lower than you would expect”. Alisha, Guillermo and me are sitting in the Hi-fi / Lo-fi studio. Her statement is one of those that are necessary to break a too deep and too thoughtful silence when you desperately try to come up with an idea.
Our 2-day assignment is ...
Day 1: The MET Museum MediaLab
How we felt:
- Excited (it’s the very first day AND they gave us food, drinks and snacks).
- Ice-broken (we started the session with the “3 evolutions of 1 idea on 1 sheet of paper in 3 minutes” ice-breaker game).
- Engaged (although overwhelmed and therefore not really to-the-point with our ideas).
- Tired (4 hours of intensive engagement are long – especially since most of us work a full-time job during ...