3D projection

May 28, 2010 at 9:00 am
Filed under 3D, Dynamic Environments

Last week in Amsterdam, in conjunction with the launch of the new Samsung 3D LED TV, Samsung introduced a large-scale commercial 3D outdoor projection at the Beurs van Berlage. Dutch agency, MUSE is behind the campaign, and Foursquare, YouTube and Dutch Startup Feest.je are part of the integrated campaign. You can follow the campaign on Twitter: @Samsung3Devent. — S.N.

Streetmuseum

May 25, 2010 at 8:28 am
Filed under 3D, Exhibit Design, Technology, museum

This is NOT just another cute iPhone app.

The Museum of London has figured out a way to break through the museum walls and make the entire city its exhibition space. A new app developed by the Museum, with the creative agency Brothers and Sisters, brings the museum to the streets via iPhone screens.

First, it calculates your position in the city, then opens a map showing your position and the location of various sites where you can view historic images.

Touch a tag and a window opens, showing an historic image of the London Bridge over a frozen Thames, or scenes from Carnaby Street during the Swinging Sixties.

Tap the screen for information, or zoom in and out to view it better.

Streetmuseum’s best trick? If  you’re actually in the location, click on the 3D button and the app will overlay the historic image over the current site view through the phone’s camera. It’s like digital time travel. –P.M.K.

Images: Creative Review

EGD, documentation, and Sketchup

April 27, 2010 at 9:08 am
Filed under 3D, Design education, Technology

Center for Architecture, AIA Philadelphia

As part of its certificate program in “EGD Documentation and the Design Process,” SEGD held a documentation workshop April 23 at AIA Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street. Known for its amazing architectural bookstore (the Philadelphia City Plan tie is my favorite!), the Center also has an incredible collection of famous Philadelphia neon signs.

As part of the workshop, Seth Davis of Urban Sign and Crane showed how he and his colleagues have been using Sketchup as a tool for both indepth documentation and to review objects from multiple perspectives. (His lecture partner, Andrew Parsons, Environmental Graphic Consulting, was held up by volcanic activity in London.) Davis shared this animation, which was created during the design of a canopied solar-powered information kiosk for Tampa, Florida’s riverwalk (design by Merje).

By the way, if you don’t own Sketchup, get it today. The basic software is free from Google at http://sketchup.google.com/

Google not only gives away the software, they want you to use it so badly they’ve built models of entire cities for you to drop your projects into at http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html

For information on SEGD’s next documentation workshop, in Denver on July 15, 2010, see the SEGD website. — C.B.