king talk

At this years UK election, the results of the general election are to be projected on to St Stephen’s Tower, which houses Big Ben, for the first time, by the BBC. The idea behind projecting the results in this way is to provide a clear and simple source of information and to create an »arresting« image.

The results projection, which will be removed after dawn on 7 May, will feature a »winning line«, representing the 326 seats that any party will need to win to be sure of an outright victory. The idea was approved by the parliamentary authorities, responsible for the management of its buildings and the BBC is said to be »delighted« with the initiative.

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A few weeks ago we had our second intern: Eileen. She’s currently in her 12th and last grade in school and wanted to know whether interaction design is the right thing for her or not. So she stayed one week with us.

To start the week off we showed her in which areas we are working here at envis and let her choose the one which appealed most to her.

Eileen decided to go for media facade. So we let her create a concept for a media facade that could be applied in munich. As most women love shopping and are interested in fashion we took the Oberpollinger Department Store as test object.

We started with a brainstorming on the content of the projection and let Eileen scribble here concepts with pen and paper. In steps we condensed her ideas to a solid concept. After four days we reached a quite defined level of detail and started building the facade in 3d to give Eileen a feeling of what her concept might look on a real faced.

By the end of the week we had finished a small project with Eileen and have hopefully given her a good overview of what an Interaction Designer does and what design in general is all about.

In her own words she reflected the week like this: »Ich hab mich für Mediendesign entschieden und diese Entscheidung war richtig, denn es hat viel spaß gemacht die Fassade des Oberpollinger zu gestalten. Am Ende der Woche war ich auch sehr zufrieden mit meinem Ergebnis. Zwar hatte ich mir am Anfang Design etwas anderes vorgestellt, aber ich bin so begeistert gewesen ( bin ich immer noch), dass ich es in Erwägung ziehe vielleicht Interaction Design zu studieren!«