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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).

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!

WEAVE #4 is out! And once again we contributed an article, this time about creating audiovisual compositions using what we call a visual synthesizer.

Sounds familiar? It sure does, because what we are talking about is the basic framework on which our Quasar artwork has been built.

And if you know Quasar, you’ll certainly recognize the cover art of this issue! There are four different versions of the cover, all finely polished stills from the Quasar artwork. So I’d suggest you to get out there and buy all four of them!