It is a triptych built from books published by Actes Sud.
The covers were open, as if to reveal the stories inside. Some of these stories even seem to overflow, to invade the real world. Each book becomes a window to the fiction, an invitation to travel. Sentences cut collide and merge to build new stories, impromptu and poetic.

3 themes are suggested, based on the history and geographical position of Actes Sud: sea, land and air.

It was offered as a present to Françoise Nyssen, head of the Actes Sud editions, for the DimoForum 2011.

Set of 3 tote bags designed for the fairtrade brand Altermundi. They each feature an invented constellation: the inflatable duck, the sunglasses and the moustaches…
They can be bought in any of the Altermundi shops in France.
Altermundi website

PodCrasher is an App that makes you throw your iPhone / iPod up in the air to make tricks.

Here are a few screenshots:

PodCrasher will be available on the App Store very soon…

Video of the demo made at the end of Artgame Weekend:

Pod Crasher – Présentation au ArtGame weekend from nod-A on Vimeo.

Generations is the game that won the ArtGame Weekend @lacantine. It wasbuilt in 48 hours on an Android plateform.

It is a game that is played over generations.

A transgenerationnal experience

- Générations is a game that cannot be finished in less than 250 years.
- When your life is approaching its end, hand the game down to another player.
- It can be anyone : someone you love, someone you hate. Your grandson … or a perfect stranger.
- And maybe, in several centuries, your legacy will help a player to see the end of the game.

Rules

- The goal is simple : reach the top of the level.
- You can build a stack of platforms, which will allow you to go up higher and higher.

How do I play?

- Shortly press the touch screen to jump.
- Run onto a “building crystal” to pick it up
- Press the touch screen longer than one second to generate a platform

Where can I find the game?

- For now, the game is not yet available.
- But the first version will work on Android.
- However, who knows which device will run it in 3 centuries ?

Générations wouldn’t exist without the amazing organizers of the ArtGameWeekEnd. Thanks to Silicon Sentier, Julien Dorra, Nod-A and all their partners!

And the Generations team:

From left to right on the picture above:

Franck Weber – Sound Design

Kevin Lesur – Development

Adrien Aybes-Gille – Graphic Design

Arthur Schmitt – Game Design

Andre Berlemont> – Development

Brice Roy – original idea + Game Design

You can listen to some of their covers here:
http://www.myspace.com/lesjosettesnoiresfanfare
You can also become a fan on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/les-josettes-noires/15202648335

You can find the Instructables describing how to build it here.

The cover used are old maps, catalogue covers or the inside of security enveloppes.

The bike parking had to be easily transportable and of course, be both practical and safe for bikes.

The bench part provides a seating place for passers-by and protects the front wheel of bikes against theft.

It has the same footprint as a car’s parking space but can fit up to 8 bikes.

The concept developed is a safe and reliable solution. It is a small energy hub for a household. It only has a light bulb and a socket for people to charge their mobile phones. It has a power limiter so it will only use a tiny amount of power. More people using less power also means less blackouts, that plague today’s India.

video:

Switching ON – Creating energy solutions for India – research video – Helen Hamlyn Research Centre – Legrand from Arthur Schmitt on Vimeo.

Access to reliable energy has far-reaching effects for social inclusion, with low-income communities most at risk across the world. In developing countries, safe and affordable energy services can be a powerful tool for improving basic education or health services whilst giving the individual a chance for entrepreneurship and income generation. For example, with a light, a fruit vendor can sell later into the night; with a dehydrator, a tomato farmer can make sun-dried tomatoes, a year-long, high value product.

But 70 per cent of people in the developing world still have no access to electricity in their homes, health clinics or schools. India has more people without adequate access to energy than any other country. Despite extensive government spending on a large-scale electrification, half of all Indian households in lower income communities lack access to the grid. This project sought to understand local needs and create scenarios and solutions that allow these communities better access to energy and more control over their powered environments.

Those people, living in very simple houses need a lighting solution that can be used in a multiple different ways as they will need it to do their daily chores, cook, read, walk or play. Connected directly to the electrical grid, the ‘hook plug light’ becomes their source of power. It also has a socket for a mobile phone to be charged, to encourage small entrepreneurship. It is limited in power by a circuit breaker so it answers only people’s basic needs and removes the need for metering.

Its thread at the rear allows it to be screwed on a plastic bottle filled with sand or rocks for a more permanent fixture. Its shape voluntarily leave space for Jugaad, the Indian inventiveness. People will adapt it to suit their own needs.

Concepts created range from a ‘hook plug’ that enables light fixtures to be hung anywhere to a micro-metering system that enables small communities to manage their energy use better. Interestingly, such ideas could in time become more relevant to the developed world. As the price of energy rises and fossil fuels become scarce, energy poverty is expected to increase dramatically everywhere. Concepts arising from this study could therefore have relevance for both extremes of the energy spectrum.

The ‘Hook plug light’ was exhibited in the London Design Week 2009.

re.crate is a brand of furniture made using reclaimed wine crates and bits and pieces found on the street. For this reason, every piece of furniture is unique with its own history. The pieces’ names come from the vineyards’ boxes they’re made from.

“At re.crate, we believe beautiful and lasting furniture can be made using recycled materials. re.crate aims to go against the mainstream way of thinking of disposable and soul-less products.

We create tables, chest of drawers, cabinets with a narrative: we think that adding in a piece the story of its own creation gives it sense and value.

All re.crate products are made in central London (Fulham, SW6). The wood veneer used is European oak and the glue used is non-toxic PVA.”