As part of Tokyo’s 2017 Design Touch event, design studio PARTY has created a technicolor greenhouse installation in the middle of Tokyo Midtown’s Grass Square. As part of the month-long festival—which focuses on “enjoying design through all five senses”—the interactive event combines colorful LED lights with seven different kinds of touch-sensitive Digital Vegetables.
Visitors are invited to observe and learn about horticulture using touch, sight, and sound. When touched, each vegetable emits its own unique color and melody. PARTY’s sound engineer Ray Kunimoto explains that he recorded authentic plant noises, such as the “sounds of rubbing seeds [and] touching leaves.” He then digitally mixed the natural sounds with those of orchestral instruments to make seven different melodies.
The resulting vegetable symphony plays harmoniously within the kaleidoscopic greenhouse. In the woodwind section, cabbages activate deep oboe sounds, radishes cast flutes notes, and and pumpkins pipe clarinet vibrations. In brass, carrots toot trumpet sounds, and in strings, gently touching a tomato releases the tones of a sweet violin, while eggplants generate glittering harp sounds. And finally, sweet potatoes prompt a plinking of piano keys.
If you happen to be in Tokyo, entry to the interactive experience is free, and it’s open until November 5th, 2017.
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h/t: [Colossal, designboom, Spoon & Tamago]
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Previously, we introduced you to Portuguese photographer Andre Goncalves and his Windows of the World series. In this body of work, Goncalves traveled to Italy, The Alps, England, Romania, and Spain, where he documented a variety of colorful facades and architectural details. He then combined his individual images into large collage grids, grouped by location. Now, in his most recent series, he has returned to his home country of Portugal to capture over 3,200 charming, colorful windows, from 100 locations. From these images he has made more than one hundred new collages.
Goncalves believes “windows can be enigmatic and very revealing when it comes to history, culture and a multitude of hidden nuances.” His new collages capture the charming vibrancy of cities such as Porto, Lisbon, and Aveiro, as well as places with a more muted color palette, such as Ponta Delgada where the windows incorporate local volcanic rock. Goncalves views windows as the “source of a building’s personality,” and he certainly exhibits this in his work.
The photographer plans to release a new photo book—entitled Windows of the World – Portugal—which will be the first of a series featuring his window photographs. However, he needs to reach his funding goal before they can be put into print. If you’d like to help Goncalves share his window passion with the world, you can support his campaign through Indiegogo.
Aveiro
Lisbon
Praia da Vitoria
Aldeia da Luz
Monsaraz
Ponta Delgada
Viseu
Santa Susana
Ericeira
Piodao
Coimbra
Evora
Costa Nova
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