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Awesome compilation of COSALUXs projects. From classic print for pentahotels to our award winning Facebook app Social Memories to multitouch installations for the German Centre in Shanghai or the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main. Have a look at our highlights of the last months. Relax, sit back and enjoy!
Multitouch Installation Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main
by COSALUX
The famous Städel Museum Frankfurt is undergoing an enlargement and expansion and will be fully available to the public again in spring 2012. Two of the three areas of the museum have already been reopened again to the public. One of them is the area „Old Master paintings“ where visitors are welcomed by new exceptional paintings and a digital innovation in the building, a multitouch table.
The table gives visitors the opportunity to explore the complete paintings of all of the Städel’s collection from an entirely new perspective. After touching one of the puks on the interface, a list of themes with eight different key words appears. After choosing a key word, the visitor is promted with five personal questions. Intuitively, he can touch the question that appeals most to him and is presented with six different paintings out of the whole collection of the Städel. It is entirely up to the viewer how he reacts to it, what he thinks about it, whether he wants the painting to grow bigger or smaller or whether he wants to read the lexical information hidden behind the info button.
The design of the interface shows a black background, white puks and white fonts are designed in a way that allows the paintings to be seen in the most desirable way, the movements are decelerated. The table’s dimensions are 3,5 X 1,5m so that several people can interact at the same time.
Over 500 million Facebook users worldwide. Every day, people share status updates, pictures, videos and links on Facebook. The average user has 130 friends, 50% log in on a daily basis and post about 90 times per month.
The volume of data makes it difficult for each user to keep track of his personal highlights. We are likely to lose track of one or the other status updates in the constantly updated newsfeed. Also, it‘s not easy to remember when one actually changed which profile picture or what event was visited when.
We came up with the idea to create something that works against this perceived "loss of data" in the fast paced Facebook world. Our aim was to integrate our passion for infographics. What we came up with is the Facebook application Social Memories. Our client Deutsche Post has always been the bearer of social memories - on postcards and letters. Now they deliver you with your Social Memories again - this time in a book. To look at whenever you want.
At a glance, interesting facts and figures surface within the Social Memories book, such as: "Who are my most active friends?“, "Which of my wall posts was most interesting for my friends?“ or "Which one of my uploaded fotos was the one that triggered most comments?“. But there’s even more to it: Users get to know which of their words used online are the most popular ones. Or see a graphic depicting friends by star sign. The app analyzes these and other infos for a user-chosen space of time and converts them into sophisticated-looking graphics. "Social Memories“ equals personalized data visualization in a book! A book to remember.
PERFORMANCE
Within only a few days, the app went viral. Thousands of clicks on YouTube, thousands of tweets ranting and raving about the app appearing second after second. Numbers concerning page views on Facebook, monthly active users and created books climbed in only an instant of time.
DANCING WITH SWARMING PARTICLES is an interactive installation and performace that intends to explore the relationship between a physical user/performer and a virtual performer the “avatar” which has the physical characteristics of morphing flocking particles.
The avatar’s body is composed by flocking particles that initially float in the virtual space without any apparent order. It is through the energy of the physical user/performer’s movements that the particles will start to morph into the avatar’s body.
TEDxRheinMain - Steven Sasseville - A Sense of Identity
By TEDxTalks
In "A Sense of Identity" Steven Sasseville examines why being a "Citizen" is more meaningful than being a "Consumer". Why it´s a good idea to have an opinion, and accept the consequences of that opinion. Furthermore he explores why we all need to create "Things" worth caring about.
Steven seeks a "Long-Term Identity" that synthesizes interests, ethnicity, beliefs, family & friends, work and values. Will Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Blogger, Vimeo, Skype, and YouTube help in this quest? Will my identity be the "Next Big Thing"?
Steven Sasseville (born 1969) is managing creative director and co-founder of the innovation and design firm COSALUX, taking a more "daring to de different" approach to the design challenges out there. He's known for his straightforward, honest and reimagining approach to the design business. Rethinking the ordinary, trusting our instincts and educating clients into trusting creative partnerships is part of the strategy embedded into the core DNA of Steven and his team at COSALUX.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
http://www.tedxrheinmain.de
This was shot in San Francisco at Yahoo! Headquarters in 2010, where Brandfirst & Softkinetic's leading 3D gesture control interactive marketing project now resides!
Six-Forty by Four-Eighty is an interactive lighting installation composed of an array of magnetic, physical pixels. Individually, pixel-tiles change their color in response to touch and communicate their state to each other by using a person's body as the conduit for information. When grouped together, the pixel-tiles create patterns and animations that can serve as a tool for customizing our physical spaces. By transposing the pixel from the confines of the screen and into the physical world, focus is drawn to the materiality of computation and new forms for design emerge.
RE: is an audiovisual installation by Bram Snijders (Sitd) and Carolien Teunisse (check profile for full description) and was part of ‘Borderless Reality,’ an exhibition co-organized by art center nabi, ISMAR 2010 and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media.
It explored a borderless world developed from the point where physical reality and virtual layer become entangled in augmented and mixed reality technologies.
This short film was filmed and produced start to finish in 12 hours by Matt Gosden and Rob Rackstraw.
Shot on an Olympus E-PL1.
Music by Matt Gosden
London cityscapes shot with kind permission of The Paramount Restaurant, Centrepoint Tower, London ( http://www.paramount.uk.net )