Another official request from LIFT art director…to all participants!!

LIFT is not only about digital bits. Share with the lift community the message that touched you most last year in your online environments. Copy-paste the touching message, post, author or comment and send it to editor@liftconference.com We will then print a magazine during the conference!

Digital content is very fragile and can easily be corrupted, copied or altered, and because we believe in the value of printed materials as a good way to keep a track of an experience like LIFT, we decided to print, during the conference, various booklets, simply printed and binded. For visual thinkers like us, the booklet is also a good way to show drawings and photos in a better quality than on a screen, also to use, for example, the fontself project and to question some ideas…big ideas from our speakers! These booklets are part of a collection which content will be published together in a more sophisticated book….oh yeahhh…one day will get there!

This project began during LIFT07. Not so empty book is part of “Artist’s Work in Progress Projects”, supported by Swiss Conféderation , Office Féderal de la Culture, sitemapping. more projects here: http://www.letearoom.ch

Why we invited Francesco to LIFT
Francesco is in charge of the development of design strategy at Nokia. He has a really exciting job. His work combines analysis: of evolutions in the way people communicate, enjoy and work, of innovations in design, technology and business models; and intuition to draw inspiring, new directions for design. This viewpoint is very valuable and relevant to LIFT08.

What will Francesco talk about
Francesco has written about the adoption and use of digital technologies, communication, automation and user-centered design. In this context he will present important future trends to us.

See Francesco's LIFT Profile to learn more about her enlightening work.

Headshift are taking a 6-person development team to LIFT this year, and one thing we really want to do is get together 40 cool people for a workshop to define and design a new hybrid social tool that we see a need for in organisations - a bit of real-time product design to get the juices flowing before the real fun begins!

Details are here: http://tinyurl.com/36494p

The workshop is over half-full already, so unless Laurent can hire out the Palais des Nations, we only 15 places left. It follows on ... kinda ... from my talk last year at LIFT.

We'd love to see you there :-)

Lee

So, let's say, LIFT look and feel happens to be about people.
OK. It sounds logical. You can see a lot of people in the background!

But it's hard to see it as a background (like a pattern or color)
when you actually know all of these people! ( they look like real, no?)
I see them talking, walking, eating, discussing, reading.
I remember nice moments, I experience something more
meaningful than a nice design.

Well, I always hope so. The same way I believe we never
discuss as much as we should about visual power, which is something huge.
This is suposed to be a -post- so, Instead of discussing, I invite you to explore.
Get your eyes scrolling and looking for individuals that looks like someone you know!
It's a funny and easy thing to do while talking over the phone!

how it all started:
During one of my visits to Seoul, I got lost - it's easy to get lost there.
This time it was with Julian (bleecker) and Laurent (bolli not haug) trying to find a place that was in fact closed. By chance we found a nice bookshop. Very nice one. Kind of place full of books about art + design+graphic design in Asia.
Quite interesting.

There was a post card, full of drawings, black and white simple drawings
of people, academic studies fixed on the door. And immediatly
I knew - don't ask me why- that this card would be the starting point of the new look and feel for LIFT. I kept looking at Julian and Laurent but at that moment
I was seeing the community (all of us) faces getting together.
I found myself looking for drawing books: portraits, details, different strokes.

I bought one book. Absolute nothing to do with portraits...
But I got the image! The one that was on the door. And everything started.

Don't you think we're quite powerful together?
Hope you enjoy it!

The rumor is that the 2008 visual identity is coming out next week, with a new poster, a new website, etc... There are even a few sightings appearing around the web. Stay tuned while we have a busy week-end :)

Bruce Sterling's presentation at LIFT evening Korea on Industrial Products And Ubiquity. Bruce talks about sustainable design, recycling, total life-cycle management, tags, radio-frequency identity, search engines, locative media, computer fabricators, industrial design, user records, metadata. web commerce and ubiquitous computing in the service of sustainability.