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The whole design concept of the decoded conference is based on a graphic coding of words. The code creates generative forms which represent the name of the speaker, mottoes or any text you want.

The visual coding concept consists of few specified rules for each single letter. The basic geometrie is based on a triangle, each corner stands for a letter within the prompted word. All characters are located on a specific angle of a circle depending on the last position. Triangles are always built on two existing corners together with the currently created vertex. Furthermore this means that new triangles always have a same side with the previous triangle. For shaping the generative appearance the triplets of letters are therefore more important than single letters.

Color and shapes are based on the letter frequency in german. The letter »E« (17,4%) occurs more often then the a »Q« (0,02%) for example. For this purpose the guiding principle is, that less frequent letters need a more noticeable graphical change. Coming back to our example the »Q« has a more saturated color than the »E« which is setting an emphasis within the whole generative structure.

If you want, you can try to type in your own name:
http://decoded-conference.com/generator

As i love supporting good friends when they produce such awesome work, i thought i would post something that a friend has recently been involved with. The video responds to the Munich 2018 Winter Olympics hosting bid. The interface design and animations are by Marc Osswald.

Marc was approach by Schusterjungen & Hurenkinder and Technik und Design GmbH in München to produce an interface system that would coincide with making München stand out as a vibrant and inspiring city to host the famous winter games in 2018.

The interaction helps the viewer navigate themselves around the famous Germanic city of München. The user is able to explore around the ‘proposed’ sites that are being turned into Olympic and tourist hotspots. Many of us already know that München last hosted the games in 1972 in where the Olympia site still stands to this day; I hope that if München wins the bid that the old site will both reflect and being incorporated in a way that responds to its history.

The interaction was used as a showreel piece during the winter Olympics this year in Vancouver, Canada! Bravo to Marc for such nice use of interface design!

Our WordPress Article Count says this one ist number 250. Time to celebrate over one year of news and stories about Interface and Interaction Design mixed up with a little bit of envis. For the next 250 blog posts we wish that we can provide you with some information about hot and new and sometimes weird stuff again. At the moment we are preparing the relaunch of the envis-precisely website. We‘re confident that we will get it going the next weeks. The blog will be redesigned too, so watch out!

The idea is simple and nice. Take a wind mill and put some colorful LED lights on it so everybody can see. The so called Siemens SuperStar was created by multimedia artist Michael Pendry for the company and was displayed till January in Munich (close to the Allianz Arena). Pendry convinced both Siemens and the Stadtwerke München (Munich City Utilities) to let him install this art piece on one of the utilities’ wind turbines. It was created to showcase and promote sustainable energy and green innovation. Passing cars on the motorway could find this a little bit distracting, but it looks good.

9.000 OSRAM LEDs were superglued to a wind turbine in just under two weeks. Thanks to smart energy systems like smart grids and power highways, it only consumes as much energy as a hair dryer! The 9.000 LEDs put out as much light as 20.000 Christmas candles.

I think it´s pretty amazing that a project like this was done in Munich, a city which is known as a conservative city, but Munich’s Mayor, Christian Ude, has been an enthusiastic proponent of the energy-efficient spectacle from the start and hopes his city will be the first of its size to meet all energy requirements from renewable sources.

via Andreas Brendle

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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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We have almost 4 and a half weeks to go until the new exhibition about nano technology will be opened for public at Deutsche Museum (Munich). It’s not that much time, but we like the pressure. More information will come…

Tonight, the Olympiapark in Munich exploded. Kudos to the pyrotechnician who engineered this spectacle without setting any major visitor site on fire (though he probably did cost the city a couple of carbon emission credits). Anyway, I was once again reminded and amazed what a huge attraction the mastering of fire – an otherwise destructive element – has to lots of people.

Today, the Twittagessen-No.116 which took part at NamNam (Munich). The idea behind Twittagessen is pretty simple. Everyone can invite some people at twitter. If you want to take part you just have to write a post at twitter with the hashtag of the event. We had #twittagessen-116. I guess it was  the biggest Twittagessen in Germany by now. Over 60 twittering people took part there and the little asian restaurant had a lot to do …

… It was a mixed group of participants. Right next to me it was Ralph, a nice personnel consultant for financial services. On my left side there was Kathi aka @Kirschkathi which is doing public relations. A nice bunch of people there talking about there jobs, »Völkerball« and Chocolate. Next time we will see us at Twiesn ; )

Stagnacy signifies shortfall and change is good. This is what officials from Munich city maybe thought when they decided to color the underground station »Münchener Freiheit« in NEON.

Yellow is the seasonal trend color of 2009… Uhm yes, but my eyes all go funny… I understand that underground stations should look more positive, friendly and bright, but we have to look at our underground station everyday… Neon yellow e-v-e-r-y-d-a-y! Oh my god, this will give me eyestrain.

However, my favourite underground station in Munich is still »Westfriedhof«, which was designed by the german industrial designer Ingo Maurer.

Just as Depeche Mode, we »just can´t get enough«. After a 25-h-day at CeBIT Hannover we visited the 4th TOCA ME design conference at Munich on saturday. This great event featured hot artists in the field of interface, interaction, information and motion design. We enjoyed every talk from strukt to Joel Gethin Lewis, Jeremy Thorp, GMUNK and Joshua Davis, except that lame performance held by a so called »Adobe Evangelist«. The next days we will post more details about TOCA ME. So stay tuned…