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It‘s almost two days ago that we launched the decoded conference, an event which will interconnect people from the field of design and programming.

The decdoded conference is focusing at the development process of interesting projects within the limits of design and code/technology. The projects should be inspiration and build a base for further discussions. At this conference we will online show projects, that have been done or which have been prototyped already. Ideas and visions have to be brought into reality. The conference will foster the cultural interchange between the fields of design and tech. Topics and projects about generative design, gaming and human computer interaction will be presented by the speakers.

Our featured speakers are:
Mario Klingemann – Schönes aus Code
Moritz Stefaner – Ästhetik von Information
Benedikt Groß & Hartmut Bohnacker – Generative Gestaltung
Tilman Reiff & Volker Morawe – Games, Art & Testosterone
Massimo Banzi – Tinkering with Arduino

Like the decoded concept itself the the organisation team is a mixture of the fields of code and design. we as envis precisely, a design studio for interface and interaction design, are organizing and hosting this event together with our nerdy coding friends from reppa.net. We are looking forward to see you there…

You can find more information about the conference and ticketing at
www.decoded-conference.com

The OFFF 2010 review for those of you who missed out on this years events that took place at the digital creation conference at ‘La Grande Halle de la Villette’ in Paris between the 24th – 26th June. Both myself and the Envis team were in attendance and here are a selection of the key highlighted speakers from the event.

—– Craig Ward —–

Processing particles motion test from Craig Ward on Vimeo.

Craig Ward is a British born typographer / designer currently living and working in New York City, USA.

—– Julien Vallée —–

OFFF Paris 2010 Sponsors titles from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

Julien Vallée is a Canadian born creative currently residing in Montreal, Canada.

—– Dvein —–

Dvein @ OFFF 2010 from Ruben Gonçalves on Vimeo.

Dvein are a group of Motion / Animation geniuses based in Barcelona, Spain.

—– NON-FORMAT —–

Non-Format from Etapes on Vimeo.

Non-Format are design house based in London, recognised since they formed in 2000 by their directors Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British).

—– SOSOlimited —–

We’re Sorry from Sosolimited on Vimeo.

SOSOlimited are a collective of talented audio visual designers focusing mainly on interactive installations and fun weird stuff. Currently based in Cambridge, MA, USA.

—– The Mill —–

The Mill are a large scale visual FX team coming out of London, New York and Los Angeles. They were responsible for closing the festival this year and they did so with a nice group presentation focusing primarily on their post production work they did for Nike on ‘Write the Future’. An advertisement spot that notably took the Internet by storm at the beginning of the this years World Cup.

Nike Write The Future from Wieden + Kennedy London on Vimeo.

They went on discussing the ‘making of’ and did a nice job of showing alot of the thought and design process. Storyboards, to the use of the massive tool used for realising large scale crowd environments alongside the VFX they covered throughout such an enormous project. They called it the biggest VFX advertisement ever made. Funny enough i believe them.

OFFF Paris 2010 Titles from OFFF on Vimeo.

To end our review; above we showcase the OFFF titles designed and produced by ‘The Mill’ for this years festival.

We had a chance to drop by at STROKE01 yesterday evening. This event was officially described as »Urban Art Fair«. First thought was: Urban Art at Munich? Does that fit? And yes it did!

They have a broad range of works from popular artists like eboy, flying förtress and castle magazine to upcoming artists which could be hot in the next years…

If you are close to Munich and have some time you can visit STROKE at the old BMW dealer at Dachauerstraße 92 till tomorrow. The location is pretty nice and appropriate for the artwork.

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Jens Franke (PAGE author) featured two projects out of our portfolio in his talk »Die neue Freude an der Interaktion« at this years web design conference webinale in Berlin. The Chemieraum project was featured at the chapter »Interaktionsformen / Tangible Interfaces / Projekte« and the Earthwalk was mentioned as »Interaktionsformen / Keyboard Interfaces / Fakten«. Both projects were created by Thomas Gläser (envis precisely) and Jens Franke (www.jensfranke.de). Right after the talk Sian-Ru Lai held an interview with Jens Franke (german).

Due to high work traffic at envis we couldn´t manage it to visit one of europe´s finest design festivals. It´s the OFFF …

Computerlove has made a nice review, which made us feeling like we have been there. A nice documentation about the talks of Neville Brody, Karsten Schmidt, U.V.A., OneSize, PES, Paula Scher, Joshua Davis, SiScott Studio, Digital Kitchen, Stefan Sagmeister and Kyle Cooper. Maybe we will visit Portugal next year  ; )