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For our latest article in WEAVE magazine, we took a closer look at Microsofts Kinect and how you can do some really interesting things with it. You will learn how to use OpenFrameworks to write an extremely robust and versatile tracker that works great for interactive installations.

I‘m proud to say that there is a new issue of WEAVE magazine out there. This time myself and our electronic guru Chicco contributed an article about the possibilities of the Tinkerbox.

The Tinkerbox describes all elements for your Arduino Tinkering activities. We grouped all 74 elements into categories like tools, material, input (digital/analog) and output (digital/analog) and rated them from basics to useful and nice to have. If you want to find out more about the Tinkerbox grab yourself a WEAVE.

The new issue also features some cool content from authors like Cedric Kiefer, Jens Franke, Danny Franzreb, Stefan Wölwer and precious forever. It‘s worth buying…

The new year has just started and already a new WEAVE is out!

This time, we contributed an article on storytelling and its importance for interface- and interaction design. Stories are essentially causal connections – the very thing that our brain uses to memorize things. Therefore they play an important role in almost every step of the design process.

Besides, we also teamed up with the publishers of WEAVE and PAGE to bring you a full day of hands-on training in processing and generative design. The workshop will take place in Hamburg on the 10th of June. You can sign up on this page (German).

Once again, a new issue of the design magazine WEAVE has arrived. And once again we contributed an article. It is titled »Dr. Trend & Mr. Hype«. We examine trends, our habit to make forecasts and how we are trying to order the chaotic world around us. So if you’re in the German speaking part of Europe, make sure to grab a copy! The magazine has posted some further information about the article on it’s website.

The new WEAVE is out since yesterday and it has plenty of envis in it!

This time, it’s all about Hollywood. The cover features four technological visions from the original series of Star Trek. Some of them even made their way into our lifes already.

The article we contributed is dealing with the same topic. It explores how interaction design influences interfaces in Hollywood movies and how movies influence modern interfaces. There is also an interesting interview with Marc Coleran who has designed various interfaces for well known Blockbusters. In addition to the article you can find a list with tons of movies and links about HCI and SciFi at the weave website.

Furthermore my bachelor project “Experiencing Abstract Information” is featured in the education section. Yeah!

Enough reasons to grab your Tricorder and your Communicator and beam yourself to the next kiosk to buy a copy of this fine magazine for interactive design!