John Nack on Adobe

April 14, 2007

Wireframes, giant Donkey Kong, and more

//na// Whether or not the medium is the message, it certainly influences it.  People love turning computer bits into big physical forms:

• Design Observer catalogs examples of computer GUI made real (masking tape folders, huge scrollbars, etc.).
• The various "Web 2.0" trends are imagined as a supermarket in this clever video. I want to go around saying "Quakr, Quakrrrrr" but I think I'd get kicked out of the house. [Via]
• Thomas Raschke makes groovy wireframe sculptures.
• Speaking of wireframes, British artist Benedict Radcliffe has created an amazing 1:1 scale Subaru Impreza wireframe sculpture.  Not only is it not a Photoshop job; it apparently it even got a few parking tickets!  Via John Peterson, who writes "It's s ort of an extreme example of the cursor-kite or the giant red Google pushpin."
• And speaking of vehicles, check out this life-size model car.  Having carved myself up plenty while modeling, I fear equivalently large X-Acto knives. [Via]
• And finally, for those of you that love primates and/or small Italian laborers, there's a 4-storey Donkey Kong made from Post-It Notes. [Via Veronique Brossier]
  

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