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This month we will be hosting the "Inspire Japan" Pecha Kucha Night. Entrance is 10 Euro, including one drink and a welcome-sushi. All proceeds are going to Architecture for Humanity.
Please come and join us, 16th of April, from 20:20, at our basement bar.
More about Pecha Kucha here. And some example presentations, about becoming a sex book publisher, about minor urban disasters, about traveling through Mongolia, about saving a Gasometer, about photography.
If you would like to present at Pecha Kucha, please do get in touch.
Patrick Juchli presents The Lake, a sound journey for the iPhone quite unlike anything else you might have seen. All you've got is a playing card and all you can do is turn it once, twice, many times. Every time you turn the card you delve deeper into a journey to the lake.
Why not join the Adobe Flex User Group in our Basement Bar on March 24th from 19-21.00 pm.
Matt JOnes AKA Lunartik, aka the Man behind the Cup is a UK designer who made a name (or several in fact) for himself as a vinyl toy designer. Matt will talk you through from conception to manufacture of his "Lunartik in a Cup of Tea" toy collection. Matt is also planning workshops for aspiring vinyl toy designers, so talk to him if you're interested in making your own.
Lars Niebuhr talks about the business side of vinyl toys. Starting out as a graphic designer, he now runs BIG BROBOT, Berlin's premier destination for vinyl toys and select designer wear, gadgets and books. Lars will be the person to talk to once you've completed the Lunartik vinyl toy workshop.
On December 16th, we started the first of a new series of events, taking place at Meyer,Miller,Smith. We are happy to be part of the international network of Mashable, the leading international source for digital marketers.
The Mashable Meetups, that already take place in over 2000 cities all around the planet, are meant to keep updated, inspire new ideas, and stimulate the collaborations in the "digital community" of each city.
Thanks again to the 3 very inspiring speaker and Marcello from ArtMophosis for organizing and moderating the evening.
Speakers:
-Meghan Peters, community manager at Mashable, talked live on Skype from NY about the latest trends and opportunities in the digital space,
-Max Hoffman-Dose from Nodes Agency Denmark gave us some inspiration on how to use successfully social media.
-Oliver Bronner from Hyam agency, specialist in social commerce reported back from Leweb, the most important convention in social media.
To keep informed about the next event , you might want to follow and register on Linkedin or Meetup.
We're also looking for new speakers for the next Meetups. Please get in touch with Lars Eberle or Marcello Pisu.
In January 2010, writer and director Oliver Kyr and producer Joachim Maurer arrived in Berlin with a screenplay, and a vision: shoot an entire movie in just a month, and finish editing by the end of the year.
Declined financial backing by both the funding institutions and the broadcasters, they did what everyone in their situation would do: shoot the movie anyway.
The result is "The Big Black", a dark love story - in many respects. A journey through doubt and failure, for both the fictional characters as well as the production team, and a truly independent production.
"The Big Black" will be released in cinemas and on DVD in 2011. An exclusive preview of the film's first five minutes is promised for the talk.
Michelle Thome and Henrik Molte will present the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, an ever-growing, worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe.
Every month, the foundation awards $1,000,- grants to projects and their creators - cash, upfront, with no strings attached, and no claims of ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of the trustees, "a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance".
Michelle Thorne works for Creative Commons as International Project Manager. She organized the Free Culture Research Conference, and helped “chaordinate” the DMY Maker Lab and other DIY projects in Berlin and around the world.
Henrik Moltke is a digital activist, media professional and advisor. He has been working on various access to knowledge and copyright-reform project, such as FREE BEER, Good Copy Bad Copy and Creative Commons. He works for Mozilla as the European Drumbeat project producer.
Also awesome: Tomoko will be serving tasty Japanese food, so please skip dinner and come hungry! New: you can now follow Tomoko on Facebook, here.
Roger Ibars, Julia Leihener and Katrin Schoof, in the context of the Creation Center of theTelekom Laboratories, have explored the "dos & don'ts" of interacting with digital communication media. They followed an ethnographic design research approach, also involving the Deutsche Knigge Academy as well as the Royal College of Arts in London. The resulting book and website aim to reveal unspoken behavioural rules, spark the debate as well as the challenge of designing well-mannered services. This talk will be held in english.
Ramzi Rizk is a researcher and software engineer with a focus on social media, and internet and mobile technologies. He is also one of the four co-founders of EYE'EM, a mobile photography hub that offers photographers a chance to be exhibited in galleries all over the world. Ramzi will be talking about EYE'EM and the growing impact of mobile photography.
This talk will be held in english
Juli Gudehus presents her recently published »Lesikon der visuellen Kommunikation« , which doesn't just talk about the weather but also about mistakes, mountain climbing, dreams, sex, larceny, occupational disease and much more. On 3.000 pages she assembled countless anectdotes, insights, outlooks on all aspects of life and areas of visual communication.
Less Rain London´s latest production "The Land of Me" has been shortlisted down to the last three for the prestigious Adobe MAX Awards. The winner will be decided by public voting on this page http://max.adobe.com/awards/finalist within the next two weeks., If you like what you see, we'd like to plead for your support.
Find out more about The Land of Me here: www.thelandofme.com
Together with no less than 3512 other co-authors I participated in Juli Gudehus' latest mammoth project, the "Lesikon" - an A-Z of visual communication.
The 3000 pages epitome is available at FontShop. And Jürgen Siebert has a nice (German) article on Fontblog.
Juli will present the Lesikon at the next Talk about the Weather, on Tuesday 2nd November.
Jarek Sierpinski and Julia and Roman Bittner are the designers and illustrators of Berlin based design studio Apfel Zet. Working mainly for cultural institutions they create posters, packaging, icons, logos, flyer and websites - mostly with an illustration as a centre point.
Following the postmodernist tradition of the 80's, Apfel Zet draws inspiration from a wide and contrasting variety of sources, ranging from Russian constructivism, Art Nouveau and Swiss typography to the works of comic artists Winsor McCay, Chris Ware and Hergé.
[Talk in German]
Stay in shape and be lazy! Jakob Lehr presents Ambitious Fishes, a service for creating personalized swimming plans for Berlin bathing facilities. It combines a classic visual design approach with dynamically generated geolocation data and on-demand printing.
[Talk in German]
Rilla Alexander of design and art collective Rinzen will give a sneak peak of her all-ages picture book "Her Idea". The book will be launched in November, featuring her alter-ego Sozi who loves ideas but has a strong tendency to procrastinate.
[Talk in English]
As always, Tomoko will be present, serving Japanese delicacies. Visit her website at okawari.de for more information.
Update:
After giving a presentation at Pictoplasma in Hamburg, Akinori Oishi is passing by on his way back to Japan for a short impromtu gig at the Weather Talk.
Following the success of last year's Falling Walls conference, it is now planned to hold the event annually, the next one taking place on 7th and 8th of November, at Berlin Radialsystem arts centre.
Supported by many research institutions such as the Fraunhofer Institute, the Charité, or the Berlin Universities, Falling Walls is set to become a premier showcase for forward thinking research and ideas.
Last year's speeches have been made available online here, and for this year's event you can register for tickets here to receive an early bird discount.
We are proud to support the event, with a site built using our proprietary Figaro website kit, as well as the design of the CI and the production of all communication materials.
The architect-artists Trinh Buscher will be talking about The Urban Topography Collection, an ongoing effort and the first stage to the Metropolitan Cityscapes platform.
The series explores the concept of space re-imagined through spatial memory and comparison.
www.metropolitan-cityscapes.com
Hendrik Lakeberg is talking about the challenge of launching the german intersection magazine.
http://www.intersection-magazin.de/
The artist Nils Voelker will talk about his robot which turns motor sounds into art. The project is also part of a touring exhibition across several european cities Smart Urban Stage
Roger Ibars will be presenting his new project titled "HWD corporation", a new collection of hard-wired devices, featuring 100 different joysticks from the last 30 years of computer and video games culture.
Susanna Hertrich, artist and designer living in Berlin will be presenting a selection of her works dealing with »poetics of the uncanny«.
Why not visit our stand in Tempelhof airport /Hangar 5 between the 9th and 13th this month?! Public opening is on wednesday, the 9th at 20.00pm. We are looking forward to meeting you in one of the greatest airports in this world.
Further information about DMY here: DMY Website
All information about our "Table Berlin" here:
Head. Hands. Heart. We believe that there is a real connection between craftsmanship and communication.
As information and intelligence becomes the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: Emotions.
People want to experience beauty, enjoy one’s work, feel passion, they want to interact with each other. We all want.
That’s why we believe that the future of brands is interaction, not commodity. It’s not something you buy, but something you participate in.
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