Jonas Pfeil's Ball-Camera

At Curve we love photography and we've always loved the idea of being able to create our own panoramas using something similar to the google street view cameras. This ball-cam student project does exactly this. Designed by Jonas Pfeil the design requires the user to throw the cameras in the air. The ball-cam then snaps pictures on an array of mobile phone cameras at the highest point in its path. These can then be stitched to create a 360 x 360 degree panorama just like street view. The ingenious idea of putting this is a ball also gets around the problem of needing the camera to be high enough to get a good view. We'd love to try one of these out. It would be great to throw around at a big event. Imagine throwing this around the crowd in a football stadium! Hopefully Jonas can gather some interest in this and bring it to market.

You can see more information on his site here and see a video of it in action after the jump. 

Steve Jobs

As a designer I can't remember when I didn't know who Steve Jobs was, for a lot of other people they may not of know who he was but they may well have been using products he was responsible for. After the last few weeks of media saturated with images and articles about Steve Jobs I think the world is much more aware of who he was and what he did. Anyone who uses an Apple product now will have heard the story of the genius behind it.

I have read a lot about Steve over the last couple of weeks. A lot about how he has changed the world, how he was a visionary, an Einstein of our time and other stories of how he was an incredibly hard person to work with. We've heard the good and bad sides to him but that doesn't change the fact that he has had a profound and lasting affect on life as we know it.

NIKON 1

Last week Nikon launched a new camera. The Nikon v1 in their Nikon 1 range. The first of their mirrorless range of cameras.






























When the camera was announced at a Nikon press release last week I initially didn't pay it much heed as I was hoping for a refresh of their Pro DSLR range and I considered this a let down as I wasn't interested in their new consumer cameras or "gimmicky" new mirrorless technology.

A week later whilst reading a review of the Nikon V1 and J1 on DPREVIEW here I realise what I had missed before. Forget about the technology and the specs and mirrorless system. Look at the camera. Nikon has created the most beautiful cameras I have seen in a long long time. For years, the market has been flooded year upon year with countless compact and mini cameras. ALL THE SAME. Every camera maybe a different shade, but all released in a rainbows worth of colours. Who wants that? I used to make a point of knowing everything there was to know about all the new cameras that came out. All the new cybershots, the newest IXUS on the block or the latest Olympus tough camera, even owned a few of them. Don't get me wrong though, modern compact cameras are amazing. I was blown away with one of the latest sony's when playing with one recently in a sony centre. The spec list was unbelievable. It made me think, why didn't my Nikon Dslr have some of those features, but then thought that they were really gimmicks appealing to consumers who really don't know anything about cameras anyway and would be sold by their new shiny having WIFI or BLUETOOTH or GPS..... anyway, I'm just ranting at this point.

Where was I? Oh, the Nikon V1.

Your Desk

here's a really interesting piece about desks.... what do you think of your desk? as designers we love our desk(s) here. There is a lot of talk at the moment about desks, the notion of standing desks and the thought that people no longer need their own desk as everyone has a laptop and can move around to work. I think for some disciplines a desk is an essential space regardless of the increasing mobility of the world. As a designer a desk is really a creative hub. No matter what activity the desk is accommodating, whether computer work or sketching, the desk really is the centre of a workflow. What do you feel about your desk? Perhaps it is just a piece of furniture or maybe it is integral to how you work.

Dublin Pub Summit

Last night we attended the Dublin Pub Summit. It was an event held over two consecutive evenings and was a warm up event for the Dublin Web Summit in October. It was a good chance for networking and a few good laughs. Looking forward to the main event.

We were covering the event for Dublin Web Summit and you can see a few shots from the night below. Check out DWS on Facebook soon for more photos and if you are interested in registering for Dublin Web Summit you can do so on their website here

Curve at Kings of Concrete, Dublin, July 2011

Kings of Concrete is an urban sports event held in Dublin every year in the city centre over the course of a weekend. It brings together athletes and performers from a variety of disciplines, everything from BMX, skateboarding, freerunning, hip-hop dancing, graffiti artists, and many others....

We went along to shoot the event and had a great day capturing all the skill on display.

Below are a few shots from the weekend...