BEYES INTERACTIVE INTERIOR

PLACEText: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

In February 11th to 28th, “Interactive Interior” was held at a select shop BEYES Omotesando branch that opened to jammed Omotesando Hills. “A new field that connects an interactive design with interior design” is drawn, participate members were good enough to faint for enthusiastic web design geeks. 5 sets from 3 countries, such as wowlab + wildcard, Semitransparent Design, Takashi Kamata (.spfdesign), Marcos Weskamp, Nanikawa.

How is a new environmental device “EDIT WALL” captured customer’s body/soul in the ambitious select shop to which a novel concept “Room Share Of The Adult Man” was hung up? I was going to sneak quietly and carry out full experience after closing on Friday. It reports on the appearance here.

Recommended contents that both Mr. Nishida of raku-gaki.com and artless handled with which creativity is a variety of EC sites of the topic BEYES. The first real store just opened in hot Omotesando Hills. The shop where composed senses of relief has a concept that you can take “something favorite” in friend’s house. There is “EDIT WALL” that is called an environmental device in the front when entering the store where selected items to stand in a row. Beautiful motion graphics projected on a 2m x 1.5m screen. The image flows as it likes with unpredictable effects reacting on the movement of the person captured by CCD camera. Let’s taste such “Attempt that starts creating the image as the interior through the interaction with the visitor”.


“Motion Wall”, Nanikawa and Andreas Mueller

First of all, Andreas Mueller to whom “For All Seasons” won the TDC prize and Nanikawa, Florian Schmidt who is a founding partner of Hi-ReS!!, “Motion Wall” where it springs in person’s movement swirls like the smoke, and the man shaped gradation formed barely changes very easily by unexpected others’ motion. Various delicate metamorphosis ran through the flexibility of interactivity, and only was “‘something’ simply enjoyed” that they said.


“Skew = Position Of Twist”, Semitransparent Design

And Semitransparent Design which took charge of a system direction, website, and a poser design! Even at first glance, the spectacle of dots to make it have a presentiment of exhilaration is beautiful. The motion begins to move without viewer’s movement when you gaze. The movement of the user who views a website “EDIT WALL” is made data. Although it might be a straight ball match to share online/offline by a different dimension until now, as their title “Skew = Position Of Twist” shows, its unexpectedness understood what output is surprises enough. A place where design, program, and device meet splendidly, that peculiar creativity fascinates intuitive ease.


“Air Garden”, wowlab + wildcard

Next, in contrast, static “Air Garden” by wowlab + wildcard. It is a minimal interaction, wind blows and leaves fall, very soft waver. All flowering plants and animals react and move lively in the previous version. However, this time, it is moved to stop topping it and to move. As for the dropped work, the width of touch of the pleasure when the logic of movement is felt with the body becomes larger. It can be the Japanese painting which technology and Japanese beauty mixed and became an environmental device, so called a hanging scroll for hospitality.

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