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GOOD and the City of SF challenged Kicker Studio to make use of the abundance of data feeds available through the SF Department of Technology. We developed a solution to help people make better transportation choices. Here is the video of Jody’s presentation on ForaTV.   Please note: we were misinformed about the availability of [...]

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Recently, I read an article by Khoi Vinh, entitled iPad Magazines Go to ’11, expounding on the failure of digital magazines. He suggested the problem is in the glossy presentation layer of the content. Let’s not be duped into this, again. People love “glossy”. It’s why we pick the iPhone interface over any of its [...]

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For the past two months, we’ve been racing forward on our tea project with a concept we dubbed The Hourglass. But no longer.

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We’ve been been digging deep into the industrial design and mechanical engineering for the teapot.

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We didn’t pay too much attention to it at the time, since it was one sketch out of the dozens we made, and we were focusing a lot for a time on a tea stick concept instead of a tea pot. But one of our industrial designers, Emily, remembered the idea and worked up some sketches around what became known as the H— concept.

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As our tea project progresses, we’re looking at many of the products in the space and what people are saying about them, focusing on forms, materials, and any issues tea drinkers have encountered.

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As consultants who specialize in new technology, a lot of our work is under NDA, so every once in a while, we do a project just for ourselves, to strut. (Last year it was the Kicker Conference Phone.) This time, we wanted to design a product for the home and we focused on an activity many of us enjoy: tea drinking.

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Our colleagues Matt Jones and Jack Schulze at BERG have produced concept videos of a future digital magazine reading device for Bonnier R&D. Kicker Studio is working on expanding their concepts into a robust, interactive prototype over the next several months.

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Last week, we presented our top five concepts to our clients at SVA (you can sneak a peek at the thumbnail sketches). The concepts ranged from manipulating 3D objects to ambient hanging objects that projected images to monitors that viewed invisible objects.

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We’ve been brainstorming (and thinking about possible product metaphors) for the last several days to come up with concepts that meet the project requirements, including the important one that this installation not be just a slideshow of student work. One technique we’ve used was to brainstorm around objects that you might find in hallways.

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