I do believe there's no boundaries between digital and tangible things.
When I have to design something, I first think about the people it's intended for and endeavour to create a high-quality and meaningful overall experience — where both digital and tangible aspects converge. Tinkering, doing experiments and testing things is an essential part in the process that gives effective shape to ideas. Finally, I strive to ensure that everything I design efficiently serves its purpose and makes sense in a wider context or in the system it's inserted into.
This is what drives my design practice.
↓ Below you can find a selection of projects and experiments I've been doing along the way. Feel free to enjoy them, just don't be evil.
Mis · towards a new operating system
Mis is a specific "project-oriented" OS based on Linux.
Hardware is no longer the big issue about computers, new challenges
are about making all these machines more efficient and more convenient for people.
→ go to the project's page
→ watch screenshots
Behind things · thoughts about design
When radical technology advances are taken for granted, design should be a pretext to imagine possible better futures. Inventing and re-inventing situations where technology subserves human experiences, isn't that a challenge historically fit for design ?
→ watch the introduction video
→ go to my thesis' homepage (in french)
Hyperterritories · envisionning augmented territories
The "Hyperterritories" prospective group, headed by Pierre Musso, questioned the impact of ICT on our traditional connections with territory. Our multidisciplinary group created five hypothetical scenarios contingent on specific geopolitical contexts.
→ go to the project's page
Risveglio · self-made interactive carpet
Risveglio is a self-made interactive installation designed and built for Nextmedia Lab, an italian media design studio where I was a trainee. The purpose was to experiment a simple solution allowing people to interact with videos without any visible technology.
→ go to the project's page
→ watch a screenshot video
2005+1 · a greetings cards generator
In january 2006, I didn't want to fill my friends’ email boxes with the n’th common greetings card. I did something much worse, I designed a webpage allowing them to fill their friend’s email boxes with my own greetings !
→ go to the 2005+1 webpage (in french)
Doublefile · motel = motor+hotel
Doublefile is a "motor-hotel" intended for people that can hardly separate from their car... And you, how far do you like your car?
By focusing on the overly close relationship between people and their cars, Doublefile is a provocative -but not only- motel concept.
→ go to the project's page
Gautier's room · bedroom concepts for teens
A workshop with Gautier (a major french furniture manufacturer) to design bedrooms for strange, unknow and complicated creatures : "teenagers". They don't care, maybe, but we did our best. :)
→ go to the project's page
Alea · a home-made sound controller
Alea allows anyone to play with music, without requiring any instrumental technique. With Alea the sounds are triggered off by a rolling ball. It suggests a new approach to mixing, sampling and computer-aided musical creation.
→ go to the project's page
OSe · a screenless laptop
Made in collaboration with AVH a french association working for the social integration of blind people, OSe (Ordinateur Sans ecran) was however designed as an universal design project.
→ go to the project's page
Ensens · convergent shopping experience
Does internet mean that people have to stay behind the computer? Well, we don't think so. Ensens was designed to associate the convenience of e-commerce with the irreplaceable experience of getting out, seeing and touching things.
→ go to the project's page
Octet · a semi-digital piece of furniture
Leaving a paper note on a table is such a common behavior.
Well, Octet is a connected table allowing you to do so, but from internet or your mobile phone.
→ go to the project's page
→ watch a presentation video
You are watching ...Little Brother
Located in our university entrance corridor, little brother is an unpleasant interactive inatallation that stares at you as you pass along. Big brother is dead, watch out little brother :) !
→ watch a video of the installation
→ see a drawing of it
Presences · a virtual post-it service
Certain messages seem more interesting when received at a particular place instead of anywhere at any moment… Presences is a localized communication service for the Paris' Gare du Nord station.
→ go to the project's page
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