New York City’s St.Regis Hotel has just opened a technology-driven, interactive wine bar that lets guests explore for themselves the wide variety of wines available.
Adour features built-in interactive technology from Potion Design helps patrons choose a wine by allowing them to browse Adour’s complete wine list by wine type, country and varietal. Computer menus are projected from the ceiling onto the bar, and patrons make their choices by pressing on the bar’s surface.
When a visitor selects a wine, a rosette appears that contains information about the wine on its five petals. Adour’s Wine Director manages the wine list using a custom-designed content management system, and can update the interactive bar on a daily basis or for a special occasion.
This great article from Gizomdo discusses how Apples lead design guru Jonathan Ive’s design language and philosophy parallels the designs of Dieter Rams while he was at Braun in the 50’s and 60’s.
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the ’50s and ’60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well.
This is a great interview about how Tinker Hatfield from Nike came up with the design for exposing the “Air Bubble” which is now an iconic feature of Nike.
I posted about this technology a few months ago. This online application allows users to upload an image and resize it dynamically. The image will lose only the areas of the image that are not crucial while keeping the same balance and composition no matter the proportions.
January 10th, 2008 Posted by: Sam Granleese Comments (0)
You can’t always be good looking and have a great personality at the same time. But personality does go a long way.. All this talk in the last few years in online design circles about Web 2.0, and now Web 3.0, is making me dizzy. Do businesses really need to innovate to the point of obsession? Why unnecessarily spend thousands of hard-earned bucks on a nice website when all it takes is a bit of personality to make it work?
November 20th, 2007 Posted by: kristy Comments (0)
“When it comes to web design it’s rare that all elements — functionality, clarity of information, and subjective beauty — come together to create a result that is widely admired, recognized or lauded in the same vein as anything resembling the likes of Saul Bass’ AT&T logo, or Milton Glaser’s Dylan poster.
Certainly, web sites are a different breed of design project than any of the above, but the same principles apply: How do you render information in a manner that is understandable, memorable and pleasing to the end user?
What web sites could be considered landmarks for our profession?”
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New York City’s St.Regis Hotel has just opened a technology-driven, interactive wine bar that lets guests explore for themselves the wide variety of wines available.
