Knock Knock
A playful calculator designed for small children. Knock out a calculation on the wood surface and it will knock back with the answer. Installation: original wooden box, Arduino board, contact microphones, solenoids. It was designed for the exhibition "Touch!" at MUDAC (Museum of design and contemporary art) in Lausanne in 2012. It was also featured at Lift conference in 2013 and on Nouvo on RTS (Swiss TV). Design and development: Khalil Klouche Tutor: [read more...]
Laser Cabinet
What looks first like a simple wooden piece of furniture is actually filled with lasers, motors and electronics. Press any of the two side buttons and the cabinet starts to buzz, displaying some old fashioned game through its surface in a surprising fashion. The whole object is an exercise in quick prototyping, created during the class "Handcrafted Technology" by Camille Scherrer at HEAD – Geneva. It uses a laser, two mirrors mounted on stepper motors and an [read more...]
Chicago 2012 – Workshop at ECAL
Chicago wasted is the result of a type design workshop with David Bennewith at ECAL. The assignment was to create a new version of Chicago, a famous dot matrix typeface drawn in 1969 by François Robert. I intended to create an italic version using the same matrix as the original. The result being so constrained, it seemed to reflect the prohibition problematic of the roaring twenties, era that inspired the original Chicago. FREE DOWNLOAD: Chicago [read more...]