Leonardo Bonanni

The Food Tastes Better

:: “It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog – not out of laziness, but because the Sourcemap project has taken hold of all my attention. That’s how I forgot to mention this video, shot with Matthew Hockenberry this past August, which depicts our first users ever: Robert ...” hyperexperience | Jan 22

Prison Flight Maps

:: “At the MoMA last week I stumbled across the elegant map-based visualizations of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia’s School of Architecture. The Million Dollar Block project (pdf) explores the impact of incarceration on specific neighborhoods of New York City and Brooklyn in partic ...” hyperexperience | Dec 9

Pocket Wikipedia

:: “UPDATE: This is the wiki reader, a device available for $99 and that runs for one year off a pair of AAA’s. Last night Wikimedia board member Mako Hill showed me his prototype of a new mobile device for searching Wikipedia, using a simple reflective display and touch screen and an SD card to ...” hyperexperience | Nov 19

Lego Papercraft

:: “Goro Motai pointed me to this collaboration between Muji and Lego to augment plastic building blocks with papercraft figures. Using a custom paper puncher, sheets of construction paper can be made to clip onto the plastic nubs on regular lego blocks. Although the construction paper is treated as a f ...” hyperexperience | Nov 17

Bike Brights

:: “Gus writes “Have you made or do you know of something that both of us could wear that would enhance our visibility as bicyclists?” There are a number of ways for us bicyclists to stand out day or night, ranging from the ultra-geeky to the super-fashionable. Here they are in that order: ...” hyperexperience | Nov 3

Sourcemap

:: “Without knowing where things come from and what they are made of, how can we begin to make socially and environmentally informed choices? Sourcemap is the first open supply chain network where you can research and share the story behind a variety of products and services. This project is the basis f ...” leonardo bonanni | Oct 20

Interactive Architecture

:: “My old work from the kitchen of the future is being featured in Michael Fox and Miles Kemp’s new book Interactive Architecture. Here are some photos from the pre-release copy ...” :leonardo bonanni | Oct 10

Structural Problems

:: “The Bridgehead buildings in Linz (Austria) have a tortured history: they were built as the Fuhrermuseum, to house Adolf Hitler’s own collection of stolen art. This past year Linz celebrated as cultural capital of Europe, and a powerful series of interventions to one of these buildings sought t ...” hyperexperience | Sep 21

Future Craft: Radical Sustainability in Product Design

:: “Visit Futurecraft.org for more information about this class and the past two years. Visit Futurecraft.org for more information about this class and the past two years. ...” leonardo bonanni | Sep 10