Learning from IKEA Hacking

Posted on | June 27, 2009 | No Comments

Hacking and tinkering is not just for computing geeks – it is an emerging creative culture that anyone can enjoy.

Some people seem truly driven by hacking and the design and creation process. While it is hard to say what makes certain individuals more fascinated in this kind of creativity than others, a new paper from Daniela Rosner and Jonathan Bean definitely shows the appeal of this process. In Learning from IKEA hacking: i’m not one to decoupage a tabletop and call it a day Rosner and Bean discuss how they ‘reinvent’ standard IKEA furniture into exciting new designs.

Wikicrats at Reboot

Posted on | May 25, 2009 | No Comments

“Most Hungarians believe the European Parliament is actually a huge beer pump in Brussels loaded with money and MEPs are international wrestlers in suits fighting to get more of it. Hungarian journalist and former collegue of mine, Balint Szlanko published a great insider manual on how this pump actually works, but most Hungarians don’t really read nonfiction in fact.

A new European parliament is soon to be elected, and it seems to have an influence on this season’s tech conferences as well. The EP needs to cope with the societal, economic and technological changes we all are riding – says Nadia El-Imam a creative strategist and user experience designer to Kultplay”

Read full post here…

Slow lighting for the Salon Immobile

Posted on | April 19, 2009 | No Comments

One of several projects I´m working on with Mikamai in Milan.

Social network scraping + trendspotting + arduino + code + lEDs + dumpster finds= the popculture o-meter lamp.

More info coming soon…

On Communication for Engagement

Posted on | April 6, 2009 | No Comments

The “which do you prefer” Widget

Posted on | February 2, 2009 | No Comments

Kikazette is a widget (soon to be released as Iphone app) that helps you to easily upload images and have them rated by friends. Go on, try it!

Want an easy way to find out what your blog audience thinks?
Get your own widget and post it! Of course you can use your own images

Portrait of A Woman

Posted on | January 20, 2009 | No Comments

(the background images only serve to illustrate the idea and are not used commercially)

The Swedish Rescue Services Agency

Posted on | November 19, 2008 | No Comments

‘‘ In Nadia and Namrouds proposal we identified a new graphical way of adapting a website design, a close to revolutionary and very compelling strategy which I believe would be very hard to match even for the most established agencies that we normally work with”… Press-release in English

“Skyddsnätet.se hittar vinnande kommunikationslösning”… Article  in Swedish

Masters And Slaves: A course on user experience design

Posted on | October 30, 2008 | No Comments

Masters and Slaves was a four week Interdisciplinary Studios course designed for, and taught at, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Interdisciplinary Studios are part of the foundations education offered by the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack. The goal of the Interdisciplinary studio is to implement complex and innovative projects while maintaining a high level of artistic ambition. The studios are dedicated to broad themes that are relevant across disciplines and that challenge students creatively and intellectually. The studio aims to encourage the students to think critically and make decisions in complex and unpredictable situations, requiring them to be creatively entrepreneurial and innovative in their use of technologies and artistic practices in strategic collaborations. The course was commissioned and supervised by Professor Ronald Jones, head of the Experience Design group at Konstfack.

Following several informal conversations regarding my research interests, Professor Ronald Jones approached me in April 2007 with a request to design a four-week interdisciplinary studios course to be taught in October of the same year at Konstfack.

The course was set against a theme of understanding implications of embodiment philosophy on uxd, and my general impression  was that the body was seen as a vessel and slave of the mind prior to the advent of embodiment philosophy. At the time I was  interested in eating disorders, and was looking at the relationship that anorectics entertain with their bodies: they seem to be trying to style themselves as masters, and their own bodies as their slaves. In fact, the body-as-slave theme seemed not to be restricted to anorectics; on the contrary, it would surface in different cultural loci, like a thread woven into cyberculture. Cyberfeminist thinkers would maintain that constantly trying to enslave their own bodies is the normal state for most women; interest in cyborgs and BDSM sexual aesthetics is quite pervasive on the Net.

For more information on the course package, and or access to the research paper, contact Nadia EL-Imam: nadia [at] cookiesncode [dot] com

KIKAZETTE is…

Posted on | October 19, 2008 | No Comments

TV8, Viasat

Posted on | August 20, 2008 | No Comments

Client: MTG, VIASAT
Task: Content & Communication Strategy for TV8
Method: Tradvertising meets IXd

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