THURSDAY DECEMBER 17, 2009
CAYO ARMS FROM 5.00PM // WINTER WONDERLAND // BUFFALO.
HO, HO, HO! Come and join us for Yule tide fun at this years Christmas party.
After drinks at the Cayo arms we will sample the full Christmas spirit
at Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland, before heading to Buffalo for a SILENT DISCO!
Outhouse will be attending the ‘Gas station bop’! at Cardiff arts institute on 26th November. To find out more see http://cardiffartsinstitute.org/
M.O.R is our way of unplugging, recharging and being renewed – creatively! Find out more here
As well as being able to view what we are currently listening to on out tunes page, we have now shared some of our playlists with you so you can download them and add them to your Spotify account. We hope you enjoy them… happy listening. To see our playlists available to you just click on the tunes icon on the right-hand sidebar.
PDR’s design team takes a field trip to 100% Design – London. We’re going to be attending the exhibition looking for trends, great ideas and general design brilliance. We want to see how the industry is responding to the downturn and see who’s winning at innovation under pressure.
Taking the team out and about feeds our group motivation to design better in more creative ways and to be exposed to the more ecological and philosophical drivers impacting the design community today. A guaranteed rendezvous will be the legendary Designers Block. Although we fear this has been subdued to main stream commercialism (being next to 100% Design) – we hope to spot talent and meet the designers who contribute so boldly to our shared creative industry.
See us there or at Fabric – where we will be seeing the night through in true London style.
PDR.
The activities of PAIPR have recently been featured in an article in the 2.09 Issue of MADE magazine, the magazine for the materials and design exchange. The article discusses the development of the new IE4 prototyping system, recently developed by PAIPR’s Alex Woolley. The IE4 is a wireless Bluetooth device that allows up to 52 digital inputs to be quickly and easily embedded into a prototype. The IE4 translates user input from the device into keyboard presses that can be used to trigger an Adobe Flash interface simulation running on a PC. The main aim of the system is to bridge the knowledge gap that exists when prototyping information appliances and interactive products.
Bringing concepts to life introduces a new prototyping toolkit, called the I.E5 System, allowing industrial designers to rapidly produce interactive prototypes during the early stages of the design process. The toolkit is intended to require no electronics knowledge to use and to fit seamlessly into existing design practices. It provides designers with a flexible method of prototyping that can be used to produce an easily editable prototype. The development of the toolkit is an on-going project. For further information see : http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1517664.1517737, for a paper introducing the work, which was published as part of the proceedings for TEi ‘09 conference earlier this year.
Here you can see the latest projects we have been working on, places we have visited, designs we like, tunes we are listening to and our latest thoughts on current design trends and culture.
