By Megan McCarthy 1/18/12 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 12: Evan Ratliff of The Atavist – Building Software to Tell Stories

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Evan Ratliff, cofounder and editor of The Atavist, a publishing house that wants to take long-form nonfiction reporting into a multimedia storytelling environment. The Atavist has a dual purpose – to showcase in-depth pieces that fall between traditional magazine and book lengths, and to power the software that allows anyone to create and publish their own likeminded work to devices like the iPad, Kindle, Nook, and iPhone. Read More

By Megan McCarthy 12/28/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

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Episode 9: Solid Objectives-Idenburg Liu – Virtual World to Physical Space

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of Solid Objectives-Idenburg Liu, an architecture and design company based in Brooklyn. In the summer of 2010, they designed an interactive installation called Pole Dance at the courtyard of MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. The installation, which lasted the entire summer, helped showcase the SO-IL practice beyond pure architecture and, as Mr. Idenburg puts it, “explore the edges of the profession in a more artistic realm.” Read More

By Megan McCarthy 12/21/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 8: Becca McCharen of Chromat – Fashion Built By Design

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Becca McCharen of Chromat, an up-and-coming fashion line based in Brooklyn. Ms. McCharen, an alumna of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, uses her training as an architect to create intricate clothing designs showcase angular, precise construction. Since the line began in 2008, Chromat designs have been photographed for magazines like Nylon, Vogue Italia, and Time Out, and worn by celebrities like Nicki Minaj, Nicole Sherzinger, and Kim Kardashian. Read More

By Megan McCarthy 12/14/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 7: Rob Faludi of NYU – Objects Networked for Interaction

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Rob Faludi, a professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program and the “Collaborative Strategy Leader” at Digi International, with a specialty in Networked Objects. He’s also one of the co-creators of Botanicalls, a program that facilitates communication between houseplants and the people who care for them. Thanks to Botanicalls, a thirsty fern can send an automated phone call or Twitter message to let the go-to-gardener know that it’s time to top up the watering can. Read More

By Megan McCarthy 12/07/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 6: James Ramsey of Low Line – Bringing the Underground to Light

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet James Ramsey, the principal of architecture firm RAAD Studio. He’s also the creator of the Delancey Underground, better known as the Low Line -  a proposed subterranean park in an abandoned trolley space underneath Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. Using fiberoptic solar technology that he helped develop, Ramsey can channel light through small cables and then display the sunshine underground, turning an inhabitable cave into a recreational area. Read More

By Megan McCarthy 11/30/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 5: Graham Hill of Treehugger – Design & Tech to Make Smart Spaces

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Graham Hill, the founder of Treehugger.com, an website focused on green living and environmental awareness. He’s also behind Life Edited, a design project that celebrates the “luxury of less,” with a goal of using design and technology to make smaller spaces smarter.  The Life Edited project is proof that even a tiny footprint is not an implement to create environments that make people happier. Read More

By Megan McCarthy 11/23/11 10:30am

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Episode 4: Khoi Vinh of Mixel – Using Social Interaction to Rethink Design

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Khoi Vinh, creator of Mixel, an iPad application where people can create social collages with interlinked images, and then gives users the ability to remix already-created compositions. The simple and intuitive technology present in the Mixel application presents a new outlet for creativity with a user-friendly interface, and the social element of the app helps users completely rethink design, with the assistance of shared ideas. The iPad, to him, is the “perfect art making device,” and Mixel is the technology that allows users to harness that creativity. Read More

By Megan McCarthy 11/16/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 3: Bre Pettis of Makerbot – Digital Designs Become Real Things

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Bre Pettis, a founder of Makerbot, a Brooklyn-based company that makes machines that make things. Makerbot is a 3-D printer that can turn any design you dream up into a plastic 3-D object, so you can create your own toys, statues, remote control cars, models of locks and keys, anything that you want to see and touch – all from your own design. Read More