Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
My methods meander between academia and Silicon Valley: I explore theories by expressing them in real-world systems, which produce insights I use to improve the theories, which I use in turn to improve the systems, and so on.
https://andymatuschak.org/
We have included in the last section of the exhibition reproductions of a large drawing and a series of pages from a booklet produced by the architecture and media collective Ant Farm in the mid-1970's. What they depict is a radical and almost utopian project, the development of a floating research station for communication with dolphins. It's... See more
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I lead and manage the design team behind FigJam at Figma. I designed and brought FigJam to market, built out our early career hiring program, and hosted Config, our annual user conference.
I’m a weird, block-shaped designer. I’m good at taking a lot of disparate information and turning it into something that people just get.
We live with these realities because they make the rest of our lives feel manageable. But time did not have to be arranged that way. We have imagined time, at least in Western countries, as subservient to commerce, and attempted to export or forcibly impose that understanding worldwide.
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
The timeline seems among the most inescapable metaphors we have. And yet, in its modern form, with a single axis and a regular, measured distribution of dates, it is a relatively recent invention. Understood in this strict sense, the timeline is not even 250 years old. How this could be possible, what alternatives existed before, and what
... See moreMaria Popova • Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
My work harnesses basic shapes from the digital world, reifying them in physical reality to expand the liminal space between. Through a wide range of techniques ranging from custom software crafted for each piece to careful composition and contemporary CNC fabrication methods, my process itself continuously evolves in order to realize complex and... See more
Nicole Aptekar
I’m a Fake Brand, in a Fake World: The Secrets Behind Designing a Great Fictional Brand for TV and Film
itsnicethat.com
made-up brands that transcend seamlessly from the screen into the real world
