Michael Lebovitz conducts experiments with dynamic, interactive typography.

Alex Bogusky and John Winsor from CP+B have just launched their new book Baked In, which champions the idea that products and brands that have an intrinsic value will render traditional advertising methods unnecessary.

We recently covered what the internet is killing and this video we came across shows through various statistics how the internet is changing our lives.

The tinkering that we now only associate with technology and machines, is emerging within the fields of genetics and biotechnology.

For one Boston Prep school, the satisfying turn of the page and row upon row of books have been replaced by the calculated clack of keyboards and endlessness of the internet. As the modern library it seems, contains no actual books.

Wired examines a trend they refer to as the “Good Enough Revolution”, a change in consumer priorities that favors ease of use, availability and price over quality.

As technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, so does its relationship with humans and the way we interact with it. Scottish electronic artist Calvin Harris created a “humanthesizer” using 15 models and conductive paint to perform “Ready for the Weekend,” a single off his upcoming album with the same name.
The project is a collaboration between Calvin, Sony Music Entertainment, and Bare conductive body ink. “Ink-human circuitry” was painted onto the models while two Arduinos were used to provide an analog-to-digital connection with a computer. From there, patching environment Max/MSP translates data to MIDI where the models can then perform by closing circuits [...]

As people increasingly move online for their news and entertainment, media providers and advertisers alike are seeking new ways to design these environments to maximize audience share, while successfully monetizing the (mostly free) content. In this evolving space, media companies are faced with the constant dilemma of maintaining the proper balance between content and ads; place too many flashy banners and risk losing your viewers, but not enough and your revenue streams suffer.
Until recently, achieving the right mix appeared to be more of a guessing game than anything based on scientific rigor, but all that might be changing as major [...]

As technology strives to keep up with consumer demand for smaller, faster and more powerful everything, it’s inevitable that many of the “next-big things” of the past will become little else but memories of the past as they are eclipsed by their younger, sleeker iterations. Given the speed of innovation, there’s a very good chance that many of the devices and cultural hallmarks that we’ve grown up with will be long extinct before the next generation of digital natives knew they ever existed.
To that end, Nate Barry over at Wired has collected 100 such objects into a handy list that [...]

New York now probably has the grandest Wi-Fi hotspot in the country. Yesterday, the New York Public Library opened its elegant Edna Barnes Salomon Room in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building as a reading room specifically for online users. In recent years, the room has been used mostly for special exhibitions and rental space for private engagements.
Built in 1911, the Schwarzman Building houses the library’s research collection. The Beaux-Arts room is decorated in the classical style with 4,500 square foot of rectangular space and boasts dark maple wood floors. It has seating for 128 people on brown leather chairs and [...]

Earlier this year at our New York Conference, Kevin Slavin of Area/Code shared with us a presentation entitled “This Platform Called Everyday Life” about how technologies are breathing life and infusing intelligence into the physical objects around us. Expanding on this idea, Matt Jones of Dopplr explains how, increasingly, tangible products are interfacing intangible services, and conversely how intangible services are replacing products.
In explaining the product service interchange, Jones highlights projects in which data is collected from interactions with services that are then translated into physical totems, or what he terms “attention anchors” that serve as a representation the services [...]

British designer Kyle Bean has created this impressive set of cardboard sculptures as a statement on the environmental impact of constantly upgrading to the newest tech gear.
[ via Design Crave ]

ContentNext has drafted a list of the top 10 young tech entrepreneurs, focusing on “earlier-stage” individuals, as opposed to the Zuckerbergs out there. The list contains innovators as young as 15 years old, some of whom are already pulling in millions of dollars from their nascent endeavors.
1. Ashley Qualls, Whateverlife.com

2. Kayvon Beykpour, MobilEdu

3. Ben Gulak, Uno

Yesterday we finally got around to checking out Alioscopy USA’s “glasses-free” 3D LCD display on 50th by 7th in midtown New York. The display is being used as a part of a storefront ad for TWBA’s middling, yet unavoidable “snacklish” campaign for Mars’ Snickers brand of candy bar.
We found ourselves underwhelmed, as the display — little more than an LCD TV placed behind a lenticular screen — appeared to be clunkier and choppier than its analog counterpart. At the same time, we couldn’t help but to wonder if the content simply did not showcase the technology’s potential for immersive experience. [...]

Somewhere between fashion, art, performance, technology, architecture, and that mom who dresses her twins exactly the same everyday, lies the work of Di Mainstone. Though she first stretched her creative wings at UK fashion brand Soochi, the collaborations she found herself initiating with architects and dancers would alter her route from the traditional to the experimental, creating wearables that are far from what you’ll find at Forever 21.
Mainstone’s pieces can read and interpret body gestures, and respond appropriately with specially created audio soundscapes. Or, it might use the body as a terrain to send messages from one wearer to another. [...]