Museum 2.0
Oded Ezer’s design for the New American Haggadah gives a fresh visual interpretation to an ancient book.
Read each year around the Seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer and song the extraordinary story of Exodus, when Moses led the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for 40 years before reaching the Promised Land.
“Jews have been designing Haggadahs for more than one hundred generations”, says Oded Ezer, “Deliberately, or not, these designs have inevitably reflected the time in which they were made. The notion behind the design of this book was to merge, visually, the history of the Jewish nation with the traditional text of the Haggadah.
Toward that end, the letterforms on each page reflect those used in the period reflected in the timeline at the top of the page. In this way, the book is a graphic record of Jewish history.”
(Source: gestalten.com)
In one month New York will commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11. In that time New Yorkers have had to imagine the city without the 110-story Twin Towers which anchored Lower Manhattan to the rest of the island. Among them was Brian August, who has been wrestling with the idea of projecting the iconic silhouettes onto the cityscape ever since.
But in the past ten years the world has changed, and the methods by which we communicate have forever been altered. One thing, smart phones were invented, and the rise of the app has enabled August to finally realize his vision: to once again see and experience the auratic presence of the Twin Towers from all angles and perspectives of the city. Details after the jump.
Seeking out iconic movie locations is part of any film buff’s city itinerary. Anyone can find the more conspicuous jaunts, like Mott Street in Little Italy where Vito Corleone was gunned down, or the 59th Street Bridge where Spiderman and the Green Goblin did battle. But it takes a dedicated fan to hunt down the nameless street corners, anonymous shopfronts, and every park bench Woody Allen’s ever graced that make up your favorite film’s visual identity. A new app called Augmented Reality Cinema will make make the process all the more simpler and more fun–or at least, interactive.
The app, which is still in its development phases, tracks your current location and pins film clips to nearby places where scenes from movies were once shot. Just hold up your iPhone in front of of the designated scene, say the Trevi fountain, and Anita Eckberg will float across your screen. It will be interesting to use the app outside urban environments and in Midwestern corn fields where one may find Cary Grant running from a pursuing plane or a redwood forest where Luke Skywalker and a pair of Scout troopers zoom by on speeder-bikes.
(Source: architizer.com)
(Source: architizer.com)
Social strategy talk 2008: Interview Jeff Howe
(Source: marketingfacts.nl)
