- Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, educator and media activist from Tel Aviv based in New York. This blog attempts to serve as a platform for discussion about a variety of topics from new media to politics, from open source to design.
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Tag Archives: design
Mar 14, 2010
סדנה בבצלאל – המרחב הישראלי: תאוריית הקשר
English notice: This post is a part of the “Israeli Sphere: Connection Theory” a workshop I lead in Bezalel Art and Design School in Jerusalem, Israel. The workshop will be led in Hebrew, but I will try to post its results here with some English to accompany it too. Here’s a short description in English: [...]
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Beyond Sharing: “Open Source Design” / Wordcamp NYC
Towards the discussion I will be leading on this subject at Wordcamp, this Saturday 11:30am I wanted to share with you this diagram I’m proposing for discussing the open source process and how might design be a part of it. What is the motivation model that have been perfected in open source coding? (especially in [...]
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Can “Design By Committee” Work?
Here are some notes from the “Design By Committee” talk I am working on. I am publishing the notes and the slides here for your reference. Please let me know what you think (comment).
Tweet this May 5, 2009
Fail Gracefully
The following is an essay I wrote together with Florian Schmitt (hi-res.net) for the Offf 2009 festival in Lisbon. Florian and I will also host a panel on Saturday, May 9th with Aaron Koblin, PES, and Joshua Davis, to discuss the ‘Fail Gracefully’ theme. Come say hi! Fail Gracefully Intro We fail. We all do, [...]
Tweet this Apr 9, 2007
Highlights Space
Just finished the design for the new Highlights space which I will develop with two of our Open-Source community members, Avital Oliver and Dudu Buchbut. User Scenario: The user launches the space through the shift-menu The Highlights tool-bar opens allowing the user to: highlight by drag+drop on text (the cursor changes to this icon) repeat [...]
Tweet this Apr 8, 2007
Trails – the story so far (+)
Trails is the upcoming main addition to ShiftSpace it is an an interface for mapping information in the world of ShiftSpace. the idea is that shift (ShiftSpace annotations/interventions/user-generated-content) left on different pages will be trailed together into information maps. We have been drafting tons of mockups, trying to figure out how should it work, what [...]
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Infographic Propoganda
Powerful (maybe even too powerful) use of infographics in political videos:
Tweet this Jan 29, 2007
Knut presentation (2003)
Four years ago I gave this presentation about the amazing experience I had in Ars Electronica 2001 when I was invited by the guys at Team Chman (the ones behind Banja) and by the illustrator Barbara Lippe to create a Flash arcade anti-game with them called Knut. I just accidentally found this at Google Video:
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Can Design By Committee Work? [@SmashingMag & C-F]