Monthly Archives: December 2005

Food Postcard

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We are:
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Jonas Öquist & Daniel Wetter

Invite your neighbour for a plate of risotto.
Half of the cost of the postcard goes to people in need.

The project objective of sending money to regions in need using existing
and well established international organizations. We produce the food
postcards. You can invite a friend or simply can go to the nearest post
office to post it to someone you like.

Idea sketch

The popular rice-postcard, ready to post.

Parameter

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Pollution Badges
We are:
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Jonas Öquist & Daniel Wetter

Parameter Badges give precise readings of various pollutants.
1.- Radiation Bq
2.- Tobacco Smoke
3.- Carbon dioxide
4.- Noise
5.- Ultraviolet light
6.- Mobile traffic
7.- Thank you Carl Michael von Hausswolf
8.- Mirror

Future projects
Delivering information using similar technology; this time about unspecified
origin of pollutant.

Idea sketch

Parameter Badges are state of the art instruments, designed by top designers.
A must if you are pro-health.

 


Train of Thought

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We are:
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Jonas Öquist & Daniel Wetter

A train is seen approaching a railway crossing. On its side a short message
is displayed.
It reads: Det är omöjligt att vara förälskad och
klok på sammam gång. / Francis Bacon

We use scrolling LED indication Data Display technology. The object is
to exhibit a variety of quotations so they appear to travel at a slightly
lower speed than the train.

The quotations are generated dynamically from a list of aphorisms, truisms
or adjectives describing wine, food, love or fear (without necessarily
revealing that which we are describing). An option may be to describe
with a negation, or even a double negation?

Future projects
Delivering messages using similar technology; this time on the wheels
of buses, cars, baby trolleys, bicycles, wheelchairs, electric fans, helicopter
propeller, etc.

Resist being surprised to read a Spinoza quotation: “All things
excellent are as difficult as they are rare” at a location as
unexpected and ephemeral as on the side of a train.

 

 

Pump

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We are:
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Jonas Öquist & Daniel Wetter

The pump tower makes use of the energy of the bodybuilders to pump water
to a cistern above. The water is an measurable source of energy. The structure
is a monument to the irony of the effort. The energy waste in training
with machines that produce absolutely nothing.

The energy produced by the release of the water can be used to illuminate
Humlegården park at night or power a fountain.