United Visual Artists
United Visual Artists are a British-based collective whose current practice spans permanent architectural installation, live performance and responsive installation. Research and development is a core part of our process – enabling us to constantly explore new fields, as well as re-examining more established ones.
We aim to work on a diverse and expanding range of projects, [...]
Wizard Defense
A couple of the Transient Pod Design Collective members where involved with the production of a new Tower Defense Game created by BigPark Inc. Miles, who works at BigPark as the Creative Director / Director of User Experience recently had the wonderful opportunity to work with a talented group of designers and developers to create [...]
Typographica’s New Look
Great design resource with a whole new clean tidy appearance. The site had remained unchanged since late 2001. Check out Typographica’s new look. Sensationalism aside, it’s significant that the ever-increasing quality in type design these days — dubbed by some as the new “golden age” of type — has caused this year’s list to supersede [...]
Objectified
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, [...]
TED: Toy Blocks That Think
What are Siftables?
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.
Who [...]
The Next: Creative Catalysts
Miles recently had the wonderful opportunity to work with The Next Institute, who’s goal is to be a catalyst for creative and sustainable enterprise. Companies like The Next Institute understand the market and growing need for designers in a leadership position.
Miles helped The Next Institute create and conceptualize pitches, while providing post production design services. [...]
Vincent Laforet Explores the New Canon 5D
Many POD members are avid photographers so we have been intrigued by all the buzz around HD video capabilities in SLR’s. Most of the attention has been directed towards the release of the new Canon 5D Mark II and the video REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet. Since the release of [...]
Gramercy Park Hotel Gets Lit Up
This months design inspiration come from our very own Annika Newell and a project that she completed in 2007 in New York City. The project appropriately named Light Bulb Ceiling was a collaboration between Annika & AGNY and created for the Gramercy Park Hotel, Ian Schrager Co.
Inspired by Jeff Wall’s, Invisible Man photo installation, Ian Schrager Co. [...]
VFS Excellence in Teaching Award
It was a surprising Saturday for Miles Nurse when his name was called for the Excellence in Teaching Award at the VFS Annual Holiday Party. Miles was truly humbled by the gesture and feels that so many others where equally deserving. As much as the award is a great honor Miles feels this is [...]