Went to the Dunne & Raby talk "Not Here, Not Now" at ZHdK last night. Design as a form of inquiry, learning from quantum physics, literature, speculative philosophy. Meinong's Jungle, Umwelt, Archive of Impossible Objects. Great evening.
Is Angine de Poitrine my new favourite band? Really like that the sound is "off": the guitar plays the notes between the notes, yet on the meta level it follows common, pleasant patterns.
🎸🥁 youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so
#music #microtonal #mathrock #algorithm
New at AI+D Lab: a guest post on generating EasyRead pictograms, fine-tuned Stable Diffusion with OpenMoji as a core training pillar. By Nicolas Dickenmann and co-authors from ETH Zurich / UNICEF, accepted at CHI26, congrats!
🙌 aid-lab.hfg-gmuend.de/articles/eas...
#GenAI #OpenMoji #StableDiffusion
Did cinema get narrower? Did the point of view of the camera actually get narrower over time? Spoiler: yes, and the charts are neat.
www.kopanko.com/notes/did-ci...
#dataviz #film #cinema #hollywood
Good read: #NYT on why programmers, of all people, tend to like AI coding tools. The irony is real, and the article does a good job unpacking it.
"Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
#ai #programming #coding
🙌 Dunne & Raby talk in Zürich @ MA Industrial Design, ZHdK:
“Not Here, Not Now.”
Tuesday, April 14, 17:30
2.A05 Viaduktraum, ZHdK
industrialdesign.zhdk.ch/news/dirty-h...
#DesignFuturing #SpeculativeDesign
Great #dataviz #map project: All The Views In The World
"We've calculated all the views on the planet."
🗺️ 👀 map.alltheviews.world
Bugs Apple ignores or loves?
"Total time wasted by humanity because Apple won't fix these: 32.4 million years/year and counting".
Great Formula: How frequently do Apple users encounter persistent bugs that remain unresolved, and how long are they affected each time ...
www.bugsappleloves.com
“Nano Banana Pro is the ‘ChatGPT Moment’ for Visual Communication”
... I'm a bit skeptical/ambivalent of this claim, but nevertheless an interesting read. → jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/nano-banan...
#ai #VisualCommunication #dataviz
🙌 Work with us/me! We're hiring: Interim professorship "Creative AI + Design" at the AI+D Lab and HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd.
📄 www.hfg-gmuend.de/service/inte...
🛠️ aid-lab.hfg-gmuend.de
#ai #design #education 🚨 #jobalert
🙌 Join us this week at Transform 2025 in Trier! We're reflecting on 4 years of the gestaltung.ai/en #KITeGG research project, on teaching #AI, #Design, #Art, in context of #DesignEducation and #Society.
👉 24th - 27th September
kind-lab.de/transform2025/
(Registration and participation is free!)
Really interesting NY Times interview of Dan Wang on his view of the current dynamics between China and the West, touching on themes like "Does the Future Belong to China?" etc. For instance, I didn't know that China's top leaders have a strong engineering background.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
Mind blowing! 🤯 After years, #Keynote can now both: display AND edit #SVG files. I'm totally breaking apart. #macOS #Tahoe
🙌 #OpenMoji iOS App updated: Adds support for OpenMoji 16 (based on Unicode 16): apps.apple.com/us/app/openm...
Special thanks to IG Alumnus Sam Eckert (and longtime OpenMoji contributor) @sam0711er@mastodon.social ❤️🙏
Danke an Christoph Luchs / Podcast Designerklärer für das inspirierende Gespräch! Wir sprachen über Zukünfte im Plural und Design Futuring – Szenarien zu entwerfen, zu bewerten und gemeinsam mit Beteiligten, Unternehmen oder der Öffentlichkeit zu diskutieren. www.designerklaerer.de/folge-34-wie...
