{"id":1300,"date":"2011-07-19T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2011-07-19T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:04:11","slug":"homesense-big-red-button-moma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/homesense-big-red-button-moma\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesense kit &amp; Big Red Button at the MoMa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am incredibly lucky, I&#8217;ve worked with fantastic people and had so much fun. I am also doubly lucky that Paola Antonelli, when she came to see me and Russell at Tinker last autumn, really liked the Homesense Kit and the Big Red Button because she&#8217;s decided to include them as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/visit\/calendar\/exhibitions\/1080\">Talk to Me<\/a> exhibition that opens tonight. If you&#8217;re interested in the &#8220;Internet of Things&#8221; go see it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/homesense_kit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/homesense_kit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"homesense_kit\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/homesense_kit.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/homesense_kit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homesenseproject.com\" title=\"Homesense\">Homesense<\/a> in general would never have been possible without the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/esiekierski\">Edouard<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cdelalonde\">Charles<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/innovation.edf.com\/\">EDF R&#038;D<\/a> who supported our efforts from the get go. The project would have been literally impossible without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/georgina-voss\/11\/b69\/184\">Georgina<\/a>&#8216;s strength and tenacity. The kit which is on display, was the work of so many people but I want to specially thank, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natashacarolan.co.uk\/\" title=\"Natasha Carolan\">Natasha<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richard-wood.co.uk\/work\/\" title=\"Richard Wood\">Richard<\/a> both terrific designers who came down from Lancaster to try to package up technology tools into a fun toy-like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homesenseproject.com\/homesense-kit\/\">kit<\/a>. I&#8217;m incredibly proud of the work and results of the project. Please go and have a roam around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/brb_blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/brb_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"brb_blog\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/brb_blog.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/brb_blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riglondon.com\/projects\/\">The Big Red Butto<\/a>n was the brain-child of <a href=\"http:\/\/russelldavies.typepad.com\/planning\/2010\/07\/what-i-meant-to-say-at-lift-part-two-big-red-buttons-and-sliding-into-glass.html\" title=\"Russell's post on the Big Red Button\">Russell<\/a> who came upstairs and said &#8220;what about it?&#8221;. We first had a bespoke version in mind, but in the end, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielsoltis.com\/Recent_Work.html\" title=\"Daniel Soltis\">Daniel<\/a> who took up the baton and makes them on order. You should <a href=\"http:\/\/instituteforthepresent.myshopify.com\/collections\/latest-products\/products\/the-big-red-button\" title=\"Big Red Button\">buy one<\/a>. They&#8217;re fun.<\/p>\n<p>So yes. If anyone goes to the opening, send me some pics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am incredibly lucky, I&#8217;ve worked with fantastic people and had so much fun. I am also doubly lucky that Paola Antonelli, when she came to see me and Russell at Tinker last autumn, really liked the Homesense Kit and the Big Red Button because she&#8217;s decided to include them as part of the Talk&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/homesense-big-red-button-moma\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homesense kit &amp; Big Red Button at the MoMa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet-of-things","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-kY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}