I was happy to see my Higher Power surge protector in the inaugural issue of the Dutch design magazine Eigen Huis & Interieur (Custom Home and Interior).

H/S, a proposed installation within the Hudson Square Connection Business Improvement District, is intended to produce visual interest, enliven its surroundings, and attract pedestrians into two under-utilized public spaces. The design, a field of painted and chromed stainless steel masses, is based on a single pre-fabricated unit that is replicated at various scales, with varying degrees of enclosure. Through vibrant finishes, an obtrusive geometric and spatial organization, and subtly hidden features, the project seeks to introduce a different scale of color, experience, and inhabitation to its site.

We are just finishing up a new website for Bureau V.

After more than two years of work we have finally begun construction on the Original Music Workshop.

Was just updating these images. Some of our early work at Bureau V….

Here is the first physical prototype of the power/strip I’ve been working on.

Peter Zuspan and I will speak at Pecha Kucha The Sound Dimension on November 30. Also presenting are our good friends Mike Skinner of ARUP and Ben Rubin of Ear Studio, as well as other cool people like the band Fiery Furnaces and the writer / culture guru Matt Mason.

New York #10
November 30, 2010 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Shangri La Studio
100 Sutton St. Greenpoint, Brooklyn

“The Sound Dimension”
In the early Oughts, the ubiquitous access to three-dimensional visualization technologies liberated designers form the limitations and legacy of two-dimensional representation. Architects feverishly took to these advancements applying them towards spatial applications, and with these tools, critiquing data and reinterpreting form and surface quickly became old-hat exercises in the initial, more free-wheeling schematic design process. These technologies nurtured a significant advancement in building a more multi-layered, responsive, and dynamic approach to visualization.

Not content to stop at 3 dimensions designers are exploring how to integrate in their creative vocabulary and toolset new elements for representation. What elements of inspiration are now begin explored, adopted, integrated? Specifically how is visualization inspired by other dimensions and senses such as sound and in particular music? In what ways can the immateriality of sound influence and translate into the world of physical design?

Pecha Kucha #10 will serve as an exploration of how sound, a seemingly visual abstraction (or distraction), can serve as the foundation to informing, visualizing, or connecting to architectural and graphic space.

I just came across this image of a piano design for the Bauhaus from almost five years ago.