SPECIAL PROJECTS: exhibit commissions + concept research + visual essays + texts
Exploration and experimentation have been foundational to M-A-D since its inception. New tools, new communication techniques and new design philosophies, as well as collaboration with experts in other fields have allowed us to quickly identify emerging trends in the conception, distribution and consumption of design. Included below are commissions from museums, magazines and companies, as well as initiated projects by M-A-D. Other special projects include texts and visual essays commissioned by international publications.
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Speechscroll ~ A pictorial representation of president elect Obama's November 4, 2008 victory speech -Digital print on archival paper 24"x80"~ exhibited and sold at Cornerstone, Sonoma |
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Venice Architecture Biennale ~ AirXY: From Immaterial To Rematerial is a multimedia installation that combines real time animation, sensors, haze, light & sound. Screen and floor projections engage visitors passing through the massive Corderie dell’Arsenale (w/Chris Salter) - more info at airxy.org |
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Toronto's Pearson International Airport & SecondLife ~ Dualterm is an installation in both physical and 3Dworld (DualTerm SLurl) that explores today’s airport as symbolic gateway towards new inhabitable spaces ~ curated by Year Zero One (w/Chris Salter) - more info at dualterm.com |
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Experimentadesign, Lisbon Biennale ~ Catalysts!/Engage ~ A large banch-sculpture and five mixed media installations including a combination of more than 500 designs produced by M-A-D as well as many designers from dozens of designers from all continents. |
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St Etienne International Design Biennale (Value Meal exhibit curated by Laetitia Wolff and Aric Chen) ~ Dorito Project is a commission that explores the future of nutrition ~ Dorito Project traveled to the Center for Architecture, NYC and then to TheLAB, San Francisco. |
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Spring Equinox Bandana ~ Blue, red, green and black bandanas created for the M-A-D annual Spring Equinox party. |
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Villette Numerique, Parc de La Villette, Paris ~ Chronopolis is a 10m x 10m interactive multimedia installation. Also exhibited at Digital Crossover, Muffathalle, Munich (w/Chris Salter) - more info at chronopolis.org |
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XY Watch ~ organizes hours, minutes and seconds on XY axis on a 24 hour cycle. |
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SFMOMA ~ web commission Timelocator for “010101: art in technological times” exhibit. Website explores the convergence between digital design and art, and between web and urban representations. timelocator.projects.sfmoma.org/ |
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Vinocchio ~ bottle-top/candle-holder. Repurposes bottle and illuminates friendship. |
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New York Times Magazine ~ hypothetical product design. Now that the human genome has been decoded and one day soon will be encoded on a computer chip, the NY Times invited us to design a genetic sequence container. “Genegg” fits into the belly button, the original lifeline and center of the body.
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SFMOMA ~ “new nature of media” research for SFMOMA and WiredDigital. Examines relationships between media, socioeconomic functions and information behaviors, entrepreneurship and design processes, and urban and desktop narratives. Presented at 1999 Intl. Design Conference in Aspen. |
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Road House ~ conceived as a staging of all that oppose city and home, and parents and children. The road is at once connector and divider between people, places and ideas and between the personal basketball hoop and the bigger world. |
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IconCity ~ animation loop commissioned by SFMOMA. Illustrates the kinetic aspect of modern cities as a result of the integration of graphic design into the urban landscape. |
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Daimler-Benz ~ scenario for “distributed transportation”: Public cars can be accessed with a credit card that manages transactions and retrieves public and private data via an onboard computer. |
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WiredDesktop ~ active desktop with news feed and Wired database. This research led to designing the WiredNews GUI and to the conception of LiveWired Channels on Pointcast, Netcaster & other web channels. Work completed by Adigard while design director at Wired Digital (CD: Barbara Kuhr).
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