Pierre-Félix So is a french designer fascinated with emerging open source technologies like Arduino and 3D printing. His work questions objects that are now network-connected and inquires about their future.
For ‘Push Revolution!’ Pierre uses three objects to investigate social media notifications, how they reach us, and how we respond to them.
‘Ego’, the first object, looks at social network notifications. Pierre associates alerts with soap bubbles in order to enhance their ephemeral natural while successfully materializing them for a short period of time. His reflection on the subject is that their virtual and immaterial nature prevents us from being aware of their presence and importance.
‘WOW’ the second object of the collection is concerned with private notifications, and message exchanges with our loved ones. No matter if it’s an email, a text message or a photo, these notifications are a communication intermediary and bring emotions with different strengths dependent on the sender.
This piece was designed to enhance these emotions and to provide the same joyous feeling you experience when receiving this daily messages. To achieve this, ‘WOW’ is an object that has a balloon that inflates when you receive the notification, and deflates some seconds later.
‘TacPad’ is the last object of the collection and it is a device that allows you to manage your notifications with pleasure. Pierre references the act of popping bubble wrap, transforming through an object the routine action of consulting your notifications into a liberating event. Via: designboom
