Teapot by Eva Zeisel, now 103 years old
Recently in an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, called “Design USA: Contemporary Innovation”, the museum offered visitors an iPod touch to supplement the actual exhibition with “a wealth of interviews, slide shows and snippets of performances, all related to the 78 architects and designers represented in the show.
Shown above is one of the pictures from a few images available at the New York Times website Gallery. Related to this artwork, visitors could view a video on the iTouch, that showed the great mid-century designer Eva Zeisel, now 103. Hunched over and unable to walk, she is seen shown working in finely-tuned rapport with her assistant. As you can imagine, looking at the video as compared to just an image of the artist must have created a whole new level of appreciation of the artwork and the artist, in the minds of the visitors.
However, I feel… an enhancement to this could be the use of augmented reality to enhance the experience.
In the original article at the NYTimes website, the most amazing line was:
At times the combination of digital and physical meshes beautifully.
This is something that we are seeing more and more in the world of communications now. At one time the physical media considered digital as a competitor; however, now it’s great to see the collaboration and one complementing the other. But more on that later…
Apart from the technology used… for the Art lovers…. the actual Design USA “Contemporary Innovation” website shows the awardees… Being a fan of the design world myself I spent a lot of time browsing around… I suggest so should you!