illumi-letter

illumi-letter is an interactive installation set up in IDC during Techfest 2008 in IIT Bombay.
Design is an inevitable part of any innovation and technological development. It goes hand in hand with technology to give products that succeed and be a part of common man life. To bring this thing to notice, installations were set up in IDC as a part of Techfest. Techfest attracts engineers from around the country. It is important that they understand the importance of design in early stage before stepping in industry. As a student of Design we thought it is our responsibility to do so. Techfest also attracts common man because of it's competitions. Hence this is the right time to put up something designer that's understood by technologists as well as laymen.

illumi-letter is one such installation.
illumi-letter enables a participant to interact with the screen and draw. The input medium is a source of light. The participant waves the light source in dark, the gestures are captured and drawn on screen in form of letters of a message. See the image below.

The video can be seen here http://www.vimeo.com/652613
Drawing starts when the light is switched on and completes when it's switched off. Once the light is switched off, the last drawing starts animating itself. It repeats the gestures performed by the participant continuously.
A continuous background music is played in the installation. However when a participant interacts with the screen by waving the light source, beats of music are added to the current track to give an altogether different experience.

Designing and developing the installation was a great experience in itself. The project was developed in Flash and ActionScript 2.0.

illumi-letter

Open invitation to all.

I know it's a bit late looking at the dates mentioned on poster but the installation is open on request at any time.

[poster made by : Suri]

An exciting entry is about to come

Hey ya pepol. I have been in hibernation since quite a bit of time. Well I think it's just a week or so.
However it felt like months since I last blogged.
Was busy with an interactive installation to be put up in Techfest.
The experience of working on something that's going to be shown to the world is really amazing. You got to test and rectify all sorts of problem. Design and aesthetics has to be there along with robustness of the installation.

so just wait for few more days.
Techfest starts on 25th Jan 08.

Continuation to my previous post

"Tata Nano"











So after a long wait Tatas have come up with a new car that an average Indian can afford. Or must I say going to bring revolution in automobile industry. But soon after it's release some people from all over the world have started criticizing the new innovation necessary for India.

This article says it a lot.Treehugger

Yes safety and environmental standards are put at stake in bringing down the cost. But this is how it'll start and keep on improving (Japanese Kaizen). We need to welcome such innovations.
Especially in India it's of very much importance.

Note : do read the comments at the end of the article Treehugger

Design inhibition

A nice article on what inhibits innovation and design in industry

BusinessWeek article

Design Quotes

Some of the quotes on design I found while surfing

• “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney

• “Let the viewer rule the idiot Box and not get ruled by it.” – Myself

• "Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." – Clive Barnes

• “Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

• “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.” - Ovid quotes (Ancient Roman classical Poet and Author of Metamorphoses, 43 BC-17)

• “Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it”