Tag: design fictions

• A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon

  July 10, 2022

  Aztec gods, in iconographic sources, are like paper dolls. Each has a base form that is “dressed” with important symbolic accessories. Even specialists have difficulty identifying gods as these symbols… more ›

• azuma makoto continues his futuristic ‘paludarium’ series of bonsai ecospheres

  March 12, 2021

  japanese flower artist azuma makoto presents his latest exhibition which displays the TACHIKO and YASUTOSHI versions of his ‘paludarium’ series. https://www.designboom.com/?p=763790 more ›

• Anab Jain

  September 26, 2020

  Anab Jain is a designer, futurist, filmmaker, and writer. We talked to Anab about the wild world of future-oriented thinking, our hyper-connected planet, and about an anthropologist and a mushroom… more ›

• Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans

  August 18, 2020

  All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/hour-one-raises-5m-seed-to-generate-ai-driven-synthetic-characters-from-real-humans/ more ›

• Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century?

  August 9, 2020

  In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist threats to the United States and cited past incitements of violence from its adherents.… more ›

• This apartment design predicts a dystopian future of hunting and gathering for food and using canoes to get around — see inside

  February 9, 2020

  “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore” shows a vision of domestic life 50 years out, when rising ocean levels have flooded cities, and people are forced to grow their own foods and… more ›

• In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how

  January 23, 2020

  What is human civilisation if not the result of all the stories we’ve been told? Centuries of evidence have shown that storytelling can change the course of history. Radical imagination,… more ›

• Google just released a “phone” made of paper

  October 26, 2019

  Our phones are making us unhappy, and companies like Google are wrestling with how to keep expanding a product like Android without destroying the soul of humanity in the process.… more ›

• How Pantone Comes Up With New Colors for Its Authoritative Guide

  August 18, 2019

  This is just one of many color-related phrases that Pressman, who serves as the vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, repeats like mantras: red is passion and energy; blue… more ›

• The 5-minute design brief

  August 18, 2019

  My goal here is to suggest a better way to write a design brief. By better, I mean, can we ask questions that will give us a better outcome. Five… more ›