[SOLD OUT] Monday's event with Dr. Ivan Poupyrev on Physical AI is sold out but we still have two more sessions left in our Design Field Notes series at UC Berkeley's Jacobs Institute. Join our mailing list to catch the next ones. Looking forward to an inspiring evening.

Halfway through our speaker series in Berkeley! Super inspiring design talks from neurotech to DNA encoding to kinetic art. On Monday the 20th: Ivan Poupyrev on Physical AI. Join us at Jacobs Institute, 5:30pm to discover the shapers of emerging tech! #PhysicalAI

Qualcomm buys @officialarduino.bsky.social Congrats to the team and @mbanzi.bsky.social! Excited to see the founders' next moves and hopeful that Arduino's future will be, independent, relevant and competitive - and be a compass for the European tech scene. Best wishes!

Episode 3 of our lecture series 🚀 Next Monday: Jussi Agnesleva — multidimensional artist creating experiences from the future by fusing design, algorithms & mechatronics. This is going to be 🔥 RSVP Link: luma.com/mf7qnjfv?ut...

It's easy to invent the car, but hard to predict the traffic jam. These and other discussions about the impact on design in charting the future of emerging technologies in a series of lectures at UC Berkeley. Join us every Monday, free and open:

Introducing Design Field Notes: Where makers, artists & designers share how they're crafting optimistic futures and reclaiming technology as something the design discipline can directly influence. Read more about the series 👇

Meet Monika Seyfried: interaction designer, researcher & futurist exploring tech-nature interdependencies. Her crafts spans from biotech to interactive exhibitions. Come listent to Monika on our open lecture on Mon Sept 29, 5:30 PM in Berkeley. RSVP:

In a future drowning in data, what do we choose to remember?Designer Monika Seyfried creates provocative scenarios that force us to confront the ethical dilemmas of our tech age. Come listen to her in Berkeley! Mon Sept 29, 5:30 PM ✨ luma.com/vhundu8b?ut...

Yesterday we had a blast with the first lecture! 🚀 Next Mon we're hosting Monika, who explores how living systems can reshape our future. She creates immersive mixed-reality experiences at the intersection of biotech, digital media & nature. RSVP here:

I’m super excited to host a Design Lecture Series in Berkeley University this fall, starting tomorrow. We have put together a lineup of radical makers and thinkers to create a platform for inspiration in the Bay Area. Join us in person! RSVP Link:

A conversation with Arseni Harkunou about the reality of hardware innovation. From Apple's culture to startup lessons - we covered why even the best teams struggle, the future of voice interfaces, and building products that actually matter. Thanks for having me!

Important to watch. Nothing new, but well explained. Datacenters are drying up drinking water supplies & consume the energy of cities - models with less/little compute are possible & the public needs to step up to understand the consequences of big tech in their backyards. www.youtube.com/watc...

If you are in the bay area during #SFDesignWeek, join me on June 9th for a conversation with legendary architect Eugene Tssui on the stage of Jacobs Institute at UC Berkeley. We'll dive deep into #sustainability, #technology, and #visionarydesign with one of the field's most influential voices.

I was about to book a ryanair flight when I remember this ad from them:

Happy Birthday Arduino! I don't want to be associated with brands, but if there is one exception that one is Arduino. It brought incredible creativity in my life, a tool I use that I use both professionally and in my creative practice. Thank you Arduino! #opensource #arduino @mbanzi.bsky.social

This year, for the first time in years, I got barked by pedestrians for being on the paths destined for people on bikes and non in the Bay Area. Wide paths, low density, yet I’m the enemy #1 for biking. Is the fossil-fuel-propaganda/twitter-brain-rot biting even the wokest parts of America?

Programmatic shell. #processing #creativecoding #twitterplotter

From the twitter archives: #startup

Who else remembers tweaking these settings? #RetroComputing #Apple

From the twitter archives - posted Nov 9, 2017: Light painting robot art - Exposure time: 1991 seconds (33min 11sec). #CreativeCoding #LightPaintingRobot #GenerativeDesign #NatureInspired #LightPainting #LongExposurePhotography #LightPaintingRobot #LightArtist

From the twitter archives - posted Nov 10, 2017: Light painting robot art - Exposure time: 3040seconds. (50min 40sec). #CreativeCoding #LightPaintingRobot #GenerativeDesign #NatureInspired #LightPainting #LongExposurePhotography #LightPaintingRobot #LightArtist

From the twitter archives - posted on Oct 28, 2017: Light painting robot - nature inspired patterns #Processing #CreativeCoding #ArtificialNature #InspiredByNature #LightPaintingRobot #EcoArt #NaturePatterns #FuturisticArt

From the twitter archives - posted Nov 7, 2017: Light painting robot art - Exposure time: 3872 sec. #CreativeCoding #LightPaintingRobot #GenerativeDesign #NatureInspired #LightPainting #LongExposurePhotography #LightPaintingRobot #LightArtist

From the twitter archives: Bike parking vs car parking #BikeLovers #CycleLife #CarFreeFuture #EcoTransportation #PedalPower #CyclingCommunity #HealthyLiving #SustainableTravel

From the twitter archive: Cordless Telephone concept, Takenobu Igarashi #retrofuturism #industrialdesign #design

Simulation 001 @[email protected] #openframeworks #generativedesign #creativecoding

A picture from my kickstarter project - now almost done shipping all the units. Air Quality Sensor by studio LUFF www.kickstarter.com/...

Noise 013 #openframeworks @[email protected] #creativecoding #generativedesign

From the twitter archives: The famous NeXT computer brochure. You can find it scanned here: www.nextcomputers.or... #retrocomputing #stevejobs #computing #nerd #unix #nextcomputer #next

From the twitter archives - posted Aug 20, 2016: Early experiments with my light painting robot. Iconic image of John Lennon by Bob Gruen, 1974 painted with a light painting robot. The full exposure took 7 minutes and 14 seconds #lightpainting #robotics #experiments #photography #drawingrobot

From the twitter archives - posted Aug 19, 2016: Early experiments with my light painting robot. #lightpainting #robotics #experiments #photography #drawingrobot

From the twitter archives, posted on Jan 13, 2016: A drawing robot I built during my time at Tellart. The robot leaves a trace of wax on a piece of fabric that is dyed after. The piece was a collaboration with Droog design. #desgin #drawingrobot #twitterplotter #plotter

From the twitter archives - posted on Dec 20, 2015: Deep future, 100 000 years of stars, wax #cnc and indigo dye. The exhibition with a drawing robot creating fabric patterns inspired by the sky. Tellart x Droog Amsterdam year 2015 #drawingrobot #twitterplotter #design

I launched a Kickstarter earlier last year, and nothing makes me happier than seeing backers receive their Air Quality Sensors! The feedback has been very positive so far, and it makes me happy to know that I've put something that people like in the world! #maker #kickstarter #hardwaredesign

From the twitter archives: #Retrofuturism Illustration by Tuomas Korpi

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From the twitter archives - posted Oct 19, 2015: A design from “Back to the Future, Part II", Doug Chiang #future #scifi #design #designfiction

From the twitter archives: Trans-Atlantic Sea Wheel, 1921 #futures #retrofutures

From the twitter archives - posted on Jan 11, 2016: David Bowie, 1947-2016.

From the twitter archives - posted on Sep 24, 2015: FARM 432 by Katharina Unger Demystifying eating insects. #ActOnClimate #designfutures katharinaunger.com/

From the twitter archives: Algol vs Oyasami. Oysami is mine and Shamik Ray's project done during the class Tangible User Interfaces at CIID (ciid.dk). Algol is Marco Zanuso's and Richard Sapper Richard Sapper's TV designed for Brionvega in 1964.

From the twitter archives: A 1907 Puck cartoon by Albert Levering shows Trinity Church—once NYC's tallest landmark—nearly buried by skyscrapers. A satirical take on Lower Broadway's real estate boom that some developers might have seen as inspiration.

From the twitter archives: Homage to Giovanni Caproni. Caproni CA8 Monoplane 1911 Smithsonian Exhibit # 547 #aviation #giovanni_caproni

From the twitter archives: Hendrik Wijdeveld. Pier and boulevard Zandvoort 1961-1965. #retrofuturism

From the twitter archives - posted on Sep 24, 2015: Paul Rudolph, (1918-1997): Lower Manhattan Expressway, project. New York City. 1972.

The last 2 weeks of January, I taught Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) with @mbanzi.bsky.social While IxD is living more and more in the domain of pixels, TUI and physical computing is the way to keep a fresh perspective towards our device culture.

Happy 2025!

Production in process! If you are a Kickstarter baker, please check that your address is correct!

The story behind the Air Quality Sensor by studio LUFF, and a new approach to technology! medium.com/user-experie...

I interviewed @pierdr.bsky.social about the Studio LUFF #OpenSource #ESP32 + #Arduino #AirQuality display (already over-funded on KS!). Lots of good #sustainability and design stuff in here 💚 www.youtube.com/live/MBOaudw...