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Posted • ID Magazine Award 2005

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The Metascape Experience / Bikram Mittra / NID

"'Wow,' was my initial reaction," Henderson said of Metascape, a holograph-driven "future narrative museum" prototype designed by 2003 SDR winner Bikram Mittra as a "landscape of wisdom." Each of its spare, luminescent exhibition spaces is an experiential venue for examining fundamental questions of human existence. In "The Forest of Infinity," holographic trees connected to "seeds" constantly shift and are redrawn, evoking that perception is not absolute. In "The Corridors of Time," a straight platform brings visitors through a series of luminous frames that curve and straighten, suggesting different experiences of time travel at different places.

"Most science museums are not so high-tech - every one I've ever been to reminds me of a post office," Henderson said, admiring Metascape's shimmering OLED screen and glowing, Pompidou-like tube passage-ways. Carlos judged the renderings "incredible" but added, "It's in drawn form. Whether it actually gets built is another story." Maeda () described the project as "a cleaner version of Syd Maed" as well as a "vision piece of how things will look and feel in the future." It seemed to augur a bright future for Mittra as well. "When you have a student thinking this far out," Maeda said, "you know they have a career arc they can work toward. Not tomorrow or today, but far out."

Posted • The Platform Collection 2022
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The Platform Collection for DailyObjects was developed to bring usability and design to the work desk.

The design language of the Platform Collection celebrates geometric minimalism along with soft corners. The use of coloured aluminium and natural ashwood brings tactility and expression to therange.

Pictured here is the Mount Adjustable Phone Stand that comes with a circular wooden bolt at the back to adjust the height of the phone, offering multiple elevations to choose from.
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