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Ripple (XRP) peaked at $0.304 on Monday 4th and bottomed at $0.290 on Wednesday 6th (a 1.6% loss). Sticking between $0.290 and $0.294 until the 7th, Ripple climbed all the way from $0.290 to $0.315 on the 8th, a, 8.6% pump. At press time, the price of Ripple is $0.308 for a 6.56% gain on the day and just a 0.6% gain on the week.
EOS’s 4th place was usurped by Litecoin this week. EOS traded between $2.38 and $2.42 Monday 4th through Tuesday 5th, when it dumped, losing 2.9%. The coin reached $2.34 on the 7th, before rallying to $2.74 on the 8th, a 17% surge. At press time, the price of EOS is at $2.79 for a 14% gain on the day and a 19.6% gain on the week.
TRON (TRX) keeps defending its 8th place in terms of market cap. Sun’s coin peaked on February 4th at $0.0286, falling to $0.0254 the next day (a 12.6% loss). It recovered to $0.0264 on the 6th and stayed stable until the Friday rally, which added a 3.4% (peaked at $0,0274). At press time the price of TRON is $0.0276 for a 5.5% gain on the day and a 4.4% gain on the week.
On Friday, February 8th, the crypto market added more than $10B in a matter of hours. The surprising rally was lead by Litecoin, which is most probably surging thanks to CEO Charlie Lee’s announcement that the team is exploring the idea of using MimbleWimble to implement anonymous transactions on the Litecoin network. MimbleWimble is a scalable, privacy-based blockchain protocol that verifies transactions without needing to store the entire history of the chain. Implementing MimbleWimble in Litecoin will not require a hard fork according to Lee. Analysts were actually agreeing days ago that Litecoin was looking bullish and might surge soon.
Just during February 8th, Litecoin (LTC) increased by 25% and became the 4th largest currency in the global cryptocurrency market, taking EOS’s place. At press time, the price of Litecoin is $44, which represents a 16% gain on the day and a 33% gain on the week.
The BitTorrent token (BTT) sale on Binance’s Launchpad platform last January 28th raked in over $7M, and pushed Binance Coin (BNB) into the top ten largest. From the BTT sale until the peak of the February 8th rally, the price of BNB gained 40%. This was a complete success for Binance and TRON, but not so much for the general public. People took to social media reporting they were unable to participate because of multiple errors, in addition to the fact that 28.44% of the tokens appeared as sold a mere 3 seconds after the commencement of the launch. One YouTube channel even put out a three part video series postulating what nearly amounts to a conspiracy theory. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao apologized for the glitches via Twitter, and TRON airdropped 5K BTT to users who failed to get their orders through (equivalent to around $4).
Today BitTorrent is also in the news for something else: it is partnering with CoinPayments crypto payments gateway, which will now offer BTT token support. Justin Sun, CEO of TRON, said the partnership with CoinPayments is a bid to “make BitTorrent (BTT) liquid in the online marketplace before [the token] is fully integrated into our desktop and mobile products.” BTT increased its value 6 times over with the Launchpad ICO but has since shed some of it.
The investment management firm AdvisorShares and the investments advisory company Sabretooth Advisors have partnered up, and announced on February 7th that they are launching an ETF focused on cloud and blockchain technologies on the NASDAQ exchange: the BKCH.
BKCH began trading that same day. To be clear, the BKCH ETF does not invest in cryptocurrencies, but rather, as their announcement reads, “BKCH invests in U.S.-listed equities and American depositary receipts (ADRs) of digital and cloud companies.“ The team believes that companies that use cloud computing and implement emerging tech like blockchain can realize increased profitability and appreciation in stock prices over time.
The plight of QuadrigaCX’s lost crypto funds continues. Users have been complaining for over a monththat they cannot withdraw their funds, and suspicions of a scam were already in the air before it was announced this week that CEO Gerald Cotten reportedly died of complications from Crohn’s disease on December 9th in India; and that he had held “sole responsibility for handling the funds and coins,” and left behind an encrypted laptop with no evidence of the private passwords. This meant the exchange might have no way to access the $190M USD ($53M in fiat and $137M in crypto) that Cotten’s widow claimed it owed to 115K users. Last week, QuadrigaCX went offline for “maintenance.” A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has granted the exchange 30 days to recover the cryptocurrencies or find another way to reimburse customers.
It took until this week for Cotten’s death statement and a death certificate to become public, and users still speculate the CEO may not even be dead (notice that the death certificate misspelled his last name as “Cottan”). Another point of controversy lies in the fact that Cotten had claimed in 2015, that the exchange used multi-signature wallets – so, did Cotten single-handedly manage all of the signatures, or was this security precaution never really taken? QuadrigaCX had already faced legal trouble in November 2018, when a judge ruled in favor of a Canadian bank that had frozen $19.6M in the exchange’s accounts, because it was unable to determine the funds’ owners.
In the midst of their political crisis, Bitcoin trading volumes have skyrocketed in Venezuela, surpassing 2K BTC (or $6.8M) on the peer-to-peer exchange LocalBitcoins during last week. Sources report that many Venezuelans are actually trading from within neighboring countries. Colombia and Venezuela account for 85% of trading volumes in the exchange, with 8571 transactions in Venezuela and 1709 in Colombia during the first five weeks of 2019.
Charities have popped up in the past to provide humanitarian aid in Venezuela through cryptocurrencies, and some think this is a good use-case to prove their worth. Starting this week, however, Venezuela has issued a regulatory framework for crypto service providers, including exchange platforms and miners. According to an official government document, businesses working with crypto assets will now have to register with Sunacrip, the Venezuelan superintendency of crypto-related activities. Failure to register will mean a 100–300 petros penalty. Maduro’s government has also hinted it may limit the number of crypto exchanges that are allowed to operate in the country.
The island state Mauritius has announced it will begin issuing Crypto Custodian Licenses by March 2019 through the Financial Services Commission (FSC) in order to offer a regulated place for digital assets. Those obtaining a license will be held to similar standards of existing financial institutions following anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism funding laws.
In other international news, as a response to US sanctions and following the lead of Venezuela’s “Petro”, Iran has officially launched PayMon, a gold-backed cryptocurrency, as reported by the Financial Tribune. One billion PayMon will be released by Iran Fara Bourse, an OTC crypto exchange. The collaboration between blockchain company Kuknos as well as Bank Pasargad, Bank Melli, Bank Mellat, and Bank Parsian will allow Iran to bypass economic sanctions and aid in domestic and international transactions.
According to a report by Cheddar, Facebook has aqui-hired Chainspace, a blockchain startup from University College London. Facebook is reportedly looking to expand skills and expertise in the blockchain field with four researchers from this company. In 2017, Chainspace made strides with cryptography and security described in their academic white paper illustrating Chainspace as a smart contracts platform with the goal of bringing speed to transactions through blockchain technology. Their alpha system running in Golang does sharding, consensus, and executes smart contracts.
Meanwhile, Telegram has released an investor update on the developments of its Telegram Open Network (TON). The public was surprised to hear that TON is already 90% complete (the mainnet launch has been delayed for this March). TON is working to get its native token, GRAM, listed on Asian exchanges such as Huobi, Binance, and OKEx. With 200 million active users, GRAM can expect to see strong support. Media expects there will be paralleled competition with TRON as a top crypto coin.
The Bitcoin Lightning Torch continues its journey after reaching Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and payment app Square. Dorsey explained on Twitter that he is a long proponent of Bitcoin because “it is native to internet ideals.” He took on the torch and passed it to Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs. Each participant in this game has added 10K satoshis. The torch has reached over 30 countries.
Twitter users and Bitcoin enthusiasts have called on Elon Musk to take on the torch and continue the LN Trust Chain to show just how powerful and valuable Bitcoin lightning network can be. The torch, started by a Bitcoin user known on Twitter as Hodlonaut, has a hard-coded limit of 4,390,000 satoshis. Once it hits the limit, the satoshis will likely be donated to a charitable cause.
Brock Pierce, chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, has launched efforts through the movement Gox Rising to recover assets lost in the Mt. Gox bankruptcy. Pierce plans to “maximize creditor recovery through quick payout of the estate’s current $1.2B in assets. This includes an ongoing effort to recover and distribute the missing Bitcoins,” as described on the new site, goxrising.com.
The hack of 2011 led to a complete collapse in 2014, resulting in the loss of 850K BTC as stated in a Mt. Gox press release. By recovering and redistributing lost assets, Pierce and the Gox Rising team hope to revive the platform as well as launch “Gox Coin”. However, this week it was discovered through incomplete BitPoint transaction scans that Mt. Gox trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi had been selling off BTC and BTH for a total of $318M and creating devaluations in the currencies.
The crypto community is ecstatic this week; the $10B added to the crypto market and the stoked expectations of a cryptocurrency ETF have put a pleasant mood in the air (one that continues to be egged on by TON’s advances, the limits imposed by Canadian courts on the QuadrigaCX saga, etc). One word of caution: let’s not get ahead of ourselves. After all, no Bitcoin ETF’s have yet passed SEC regulations, market tides may change, and deadlines can eternally be pushed forward. Let’s wait and see.
Click here to see the host countries of refugees originating from Ethiopia.
Dr Samuel A Bekalo has conducted research and published widely on Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. He has lived and worked in the region and regularly visits the area since the 1960s. He has written over 100 expert and documentation authentication reports on these countries. His scholarly reports are based on first-hand experience and benefit from his knowledge of Amharic, Oromo, Arabic, Tigrinya, and Kiswahili. In recent years, Dr Bekalo has worked as a Research Fellow at the International School of Education of the University of Leeds (UK), where he was involved in the capacity building project North-South Higher Education Institutions Link programme for Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan.
Dr Campbell has over a decade’s experience of writing country expert reports for Ethiopian and Eritrean asylum applicants in the UK and elsewhere. He has also done extended fieldwork in/on the British asylum system. He has addressed a range of issues in the past but his work currently focuses on issues of statelessness and nationality, particularly in relation to the thousands of Ethiopian-born ethnic Eritreans who were deported during the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the thousands of Ethiopian-born ethnic Eritreans who currently reside in Ethiopia.
Dr Hammond has conducted extensive research in areas of forced migration, diasporas, food security, and conflict. She has worked in the Horn of Africa - particularly Ethiopia and Somalia/Somaliland - for the past eighteen years, and has done consultancy for a wide range of development and humanitarian organizations, including UNDP, USAID, DfID, Oxfam, Medécins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the British Red Cross and the World Food Programme. She is a member of the Independent Advisory Group on Country Information (IAGCI). She is also the author of This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia (Cornell University Press: 2004) and several other book and journal articles.
Dr Redeker Hepner has studied the socio-political dynamics of Eritrea and its diasporas for more than fifteen years. She is also an Eritrea Country Specialist for Amnesty International. Dr Hepner has provided expert testimony in hundreds of Eritrean asylum cases and has acted as a consultant for attorneys and legal aid providers in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Her active research agenda focuses on Eritrean refugees, transnational governance and repression, and rights-based organizing in the US, Europe, and Ethiopia. Two of her books include Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora (University of Pennsylvania Press) and Biopolitics, Militarism and Development: Eritrea in the Twenty-first Century, co-edited with David O’Kane (Berghahn Books). Dr. Hepner earned her MA and PhD in Anthropology from Michigan State University and a Certificate in Refugee Studies from York University, Toronto.
Mr Rawlence is a Country of Origin expert on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritea, and Somalia. He has written numerous articles on issues occuring in the region and also written two books including City of Thorns: Fear and Longing in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp (forthcoming, 2015) and Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa’s Deadliest War. Mr Rawlence can speak Swahili. He worked as a researcher on Ethiopia for Human Rights Watch from 2009-2013 covering a range of issues from forced displacement to torture and rendition and political repression. He has a good understanding of the political dimensions of ethnic discrimination and the hidden nature of much of Ethiopia's state torture system.
Dr Ron Reminick is a psychological anthropologist with interpretive skills of a general order.
Dr Schaefer has made the Horn of Africa, and specifically Ethiopia and Eritrea, the focus of his academic career and humanitarian work. Travelling there frequently for long periods of time, he has cumulatively lived in Ethiopia for approximately 15 years, most recently in 2010. With extensive knowledge of Ethiopia’s human rights and socio-political situation, Dr Schaefer researched and wrote on the post-election evaluation of the May 2005 elections, and has written extensively on human rights, Ethiopian politics, elections, and electioneering. From 2006 through to 2009 he also held the position as Country Specialist for Ethiopia for Amnesty International – USA.
Magnus Treiber teaches at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in the Department of Anthropology. Following his doctoral thesis on the life-world of young urbanites in Asmara/Eritrea (2005, University of Munich), he is currently engaged in a research project on “Dynamic Worlds of Imagination – Learning processes, knowledge and communication among young urban migrants from Eritrea and Ethiopia”, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in the interdisciplinary research network “migration and knowledge (formig)”. He can provide country of origin information for Eritrea and Ethiopia, and his current reseach is on Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum, Sudan. Dr Magnus Treiber offers a brief explanation of the Kebele system of organising neighbourhoods in urban Ethiopia through which remarkable control of the population is achieved.
Prof Harry Verhoeven teaches at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University. Prof Verhoeven completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he was a postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2014 and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College from 2013 to 2014. His research focuses on conflict, development and the environment in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. He has published on hydropolitics, state-building and conflict in Ethiopia and the region. His research covers areas such as water security, famine, emerging powers and Islamism in Ethiopia and the region. A list of his publications can be found here: https://qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu/profile/harry-verhoeven.
Ian Taylor is a Professor in International Relations and African Politics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has worked for institutions such as the UNHCR, and has published extensively on Ethiopia - both academically and for consultancy reports. His work includes themes such as politics, democracy, development, conflict and sustainability.
Independent of any political organisation or government, Radio Erena offers news, cultural programmes, music and entertainment. The blogsite provides articles containing firsthand reports of the situation in Eritrea and Ethiopia which may be considered useful in the gathering of country of origin information. A network of contributors based in the United States, Italy, Britain and the Netherlands is providing the Paris-based staff with Tigrinya-language programmes that are broadcast via Arabsat’s Badr-6 satellite. Eritreans can tune into Radio Erena on the 11,785 Mhz frequency with vertical polarisation (SR 27500, FEC 3/4).
Magnus Treiber, Ethiopia: The Kebele System, 2010- Dr Treiber gives a detailed overview of the Kebele system which operates throughout Ethiopia. For further information, contact Dr Treiber direct on the details above.
I've been whipping up some quick knit projects after discovering that I have A LOT of knit scraps. Nothing epic but a few lessons learned along the way.
Excuse the blur. Not sure why this is out of focus.
More Rosy Lady Shorts made from fabric leftover from t-shirts. The lesson learned here was to use stretch lace with good recovery. Also, I zig-zagged the elastic together instead of serging it. I found the serged seams on the stretch lace on my other pairs tend to unravel.
Likely my final Erin Maternity Skirt, as I only need so many. This one is made from some striped rib knit from Our Social Fabric. Here I learned not to sew when tired. I originally sewed the waist band to the hem of the skirt. I even added the elastic for ruching on the wrong end and hemmed the waist band. I spent a good solid 2 hours unpicking all of that. The skirt itself probably only takes an hour.
I am skeptical about the classic maternity pose.
More baby pants in scraps. The first two were from my mom and the second two were from Our Social Fabric. I found the serged seams always looked a bit sketchy at the end of the cuffs. I actually took the time to weave them into the seams using a darning needle that I use for knitting. This looks so much better and makes me feel like the seams aren't going to start pulling apart.
Made any small improvements to your sewing lately?
Master Artwork and Ad Materials for Hayley Jane and the Primates 2015 Tour. Great Band…check ’em out. There’s a lot of stuff on Youtube.
“Up For Anything” theatre promo Twiddle Bandana!
These numbers are located in the city of Houston part of Harris county. There are a few other subcodes that cover this area as well so take care not to confuse them.
Harris county is situated in Texas and operates CT (UTC -06:00) time. This number group covers the 77002, 77030, 77014, & 77029 zip codes.
But! That usually fades away after I realize that I’m running/biking/whatever for a great cause.
I definitely like what you’re putting out on Sneaker Sagas. Particularly your candid approach to… well everything!
I JUST started a blog Train, Give, Live! was wondering if you’d mind if I shared some of the content that you’re putting out, onto Train, Give, LIVE! I think the guys at my blog and TimmyG Fan Page would get a lot out of it.
Thanks and keep putting out great content.
In this report, ten-year trend data are presented on two acute sexually transmitted infections (STIs): genital chlamydia and gonorrhoea.
Data on genital chlamydia and gonorrhoea infection are extracted from the laboratory diagnoses database, the Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland System (ECOSS). This is an HPS surveillance system which is updated daily with positive test results from all Scottish diagnostic and reference laboratories.
Am I Eligible for Workers' Compensation Benefits in New York?
New York Workers' Compensation Blog 2017 July Am I Eligible for Workers' Comp Benefits?
Workers’ compensation is a no-fault insurance available to injured workers who sustain on-the-job injuries. No-fault means the worker can apply for benefits regardless of his or her own negligence.
Who pays for workers’ comp?
Workers’ compensation is paid by employers on behalf of employees. Employees do not contribute to the costs of this insurance.
Am I eligible for workers’ comp benefits?
Your injury must be work-related.
You were not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accident.
You were not intentionally trying to hurt yourself or another person at the time of the accident.
Your employer carries workers’ compensation insurance.
If your employer does not have workers’ comp insurance, they are legally required to carry it.
You are an employee of the company whose workers’ compensation insurance you intend to use.
Who is covered under New York’s workers’ comp law?
According to the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board, “Virtually all employers in New York State must provide workers’ compensation coverage for their employees (WCL §2 and 3).” Aside from regular employees, domestic workers who work at least 40 hours a week, farm workers who earn more than $1,200 in a year, most workers compensated by non-profit organizations, and employees who work for the State of New York are all covered by workers’ compensation, but there are other eligible workers as well.
To find out if you’re eligible for workers’ comp benefits in New York, contact Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman today for a free case evaluation. We'll guide you every step of the way!
Acne rosacea, now more accurately know just as rosacea, is a chronic skin condition of the forehead, cheeks, nose, and chin. It consists of flushing, which turns into red coloration from the dilation of the capillaries and can lead to pustules that resemble acne.
Preliminary reports in the 1940s claimed that rosacea improved with oral supplements or injections of B vitamins7 8 9 On the other hand, one report exists of rosacea-like symptoms in a patient taking 100 mg per day of vitamin B6 and 100 mcg per day of vitamin B12; these symptoms subsided when the supplements were discontinued.10 More research is needed to evaluate the potential benefits or hazards of B vitamins for rosacea.
Some people with rosacea have been reported to produce inadequate stomach acid.11 In a preliminary trial, supplemental hydrochloric acid, along with vitamin B complex, improved some cases of rosacea in people with low stomach-acid production.12 Similarly, improvement in rosacea has been reported anecdotally after supplementation with pancreatic digestive enzymes, and a controlled study found that rosacea patients produced less pancreatic lipase than healthy people.13 Controlled trials are needed to evaluate the effects of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzyme supplements in rosacea. Hydrochloric acid supplements should not be taken without the supervision of a healthcare practitioner.
A topical preparation of retinaldehyde (a prescription form of vitamin A) may be effective in treating people with mild rosacea. In a small, preliminary trial, women with rosacea used a retinaldehyde cream (0.05%) once daily for six months.14 Inflammation was improved in most participants, and blood vessel abnormalities responded in about half the people after six months. Controlled research is needed to confirm these effects. Retinaldehyde cream is available by prescription only and should be used only under the supervision of the prescribing physician. Azelaic acid cream is available by prescription only and should be used only under the supervision of the prescribing physician.
re there any side effects or interactions with acne rosacea?
Historically, tonic herbs, such as burdock, have been used in the treatment of skin conditions. These herbs are believed to have a cleansing action when taken internally.15 Burdock root tincture may be taken in 2 to 4 ml amounts per day. Dried root preparations in a capsule or tablet can be used at 1 to 2 grams three times per day. Many herbal preparations combine burdock root with other alterative herbs, such as yellow dock, red clover, or cleavers. In the treatment of acne rosacea, none of these herbs has been studied in scientific research.
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I’ve really been neglecting this space lately. And it’s not because I don’t have anything to say. In fact, I have too much to say. Over the past several weeks I have been mulling over so many thoughts in my head, trying to find some way to put them into words. Trying to find the time to just sit and think about what I want to share. And I suppose the best way to do that is to just start.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here before, but my mind often feels like a swirling, cloudy mess of mixed emotions. I often feel one extreme and then another – all accompanied by some form of anxiety. I can feel so sure of myself one moment, and the next I’m questioning everything in my life. It’s an exhausting way to live, but of course I can’t control the thoughts that pop in and out of my head. I can try to deal with them. How do I do that?
Yesterday I did a make-up class at my acting studio with a different teacher and different classmates. I’ve been feeling stale the last few months, feeling like I’m going through the motions and not gaining much in return. And though I didn’t necessarily feel like I had some massive breakthrough that will heal all my problems, I did come away with some insight into how to navigate this storm of emotions always running through my brain.
I did a scene from Closer (it’s both a play and a movie). If you’re unfamiliar, the story follows a man and a woman who have an affair and leave their respective partners. My character had been left by her boyfriend, and she in turn is now sleeping with the other woman’s husband (to which she is separated). Does that make sense? Anyway, my point is – there are so many things this woman must be feeling: betrayal, sadness, jealousy, hate, insecurity, neediness, etc. etc. Going into it, I wasn’t sure what to feel. Because yes, we can feel multiple things at once, but as an actor, or for me personally, I can’t actively pursue every single feeling in one moment. So I didn’t. I let myself feel what I was feeling going into the scene, and when it changed to something else, I let myself feel that. I didn’t focus on jealousy or hate or sadness – all of those will feed into one another. I just trusted myself that whatever came up was exactly what I was supposed to be feeling in that moment, and when it changed, that was okay too.
So I’m going to try to apply this to my life. I can’t control my feelings, but I can control how I use them. I can learn to give into them instead of hiding from them or judging them or criticizing myself. If I’m feeling anxious, I can let myself feel anxious and explore what it is that’s causing the anxiety and do something different. If I’m feeling defeated, it doesn’t mean I will permanently feel that way. I can feel it until it passes (hopefully sooner, rather than later), but I don’t need to feel like I have to brush over it. I can check into my emotions to figure out how I can guide them into something else. I’m not alone in these feelings. You aren’t alone in your feelings. We’re all trying to navigate this crazy world, but we first have to navigate our crazy minds.
I don’t go to therapy (though I’d never be opposed to it, and one could argue my acting class is a therapy session, haha), so (yay for you!), I think I’ll start using this space to explore more of myself. I do that here already – discovering my goals and hobbies and sharing my general life journey. But in thinking about what this space is to me, I think I’ve discovered that I want to write more…share more substantial thoughts than just crafts or pretty pictures (though I love all of that too). All of the above may not be as eloquent as I’d hope, but I’m putting it out there.
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As part of the United Kingdom’s GREAT Festival of Creativity, FIELD created a dynamic art installation. Abstract animations—representing the creative process across different disciplines—announced the festival’s upcoming events in real time. FIELD, design firm; GREAT Festival of Creativity, client.
There’s a scene in the movie Hidden Figures in which Octavia Spencer’s character Dorothy Vaughan looks thoughtfully at the machine that will make her and her colleagues’ jobs as human “computers” redundant. The IBM 7090 computer had been purchased by NASA to help it beat the Russians in the race to space, but rather than feel threatened or cowed by the machine, Vaughan takes a book from the Whites Only section of the local library to teach herself—and her colleagues—Fortran, the programming language needed to work with the machine.
It feels like communication designers are in a similar position to Vaughan’s. As algorithms, artificial intelligence and cloud computing become more powerful, designers face “a paradigm shift in design,” as Cedric Kiefer, cofounder of Berlin-based experimental art, design and technology studio onformative, puts it. “The possibilities of programming languages as well as using algorithms will eventually change the role of the designer.” The big question is how.
The answer lies in the growing field of generative design. Unlike machines, humans have preconceived notions about how things should look and perform. Yet more designers are realizing thousands of design directions and solutions that we would almost certainly never envision on our own. Creatives with the right programming skills can produce extravagant, detailed structures and patterns that can form the basis of everything from typography, films and logos to products, textiles and interactive installations. In this sense, generative design bridges the gap between the sciences and the humanities, and a growing number of creative agencies and studios are arming themselves with the technological literacy needed to make the most of this new potential with some fascinating projects.
MHOX’s Vidiam mask represents a possible prosthetic mask for people without sight, inspired by the structure of exoskeletons and digitally grown through generative design. MHOX, design firm.
The studio’s fluid design solutions make clear the opportunities presented by collaborative generative design: the true sense of the word collaborative. onformative and FIELD show us how generative design is changing and will continue to change the role of the designer into something far more fluid: a combination of designer, programmer, producer and curator. And as the field develops, who knows what else?
onformative’s Porsche BlackBox uses racing data to generate an abstract WebGL visual-ization of a Porsche 911. As the racing data becomes more intense, the car’s outline becomes clearer. onformative, design firm; Porsche, client.
In Dolby Laboratories’ San Francisco headquarters sits Collide, a 62-foot-long installation by onformative that interprets recorded motion data into abstract visuals and sound. onformative drew inspiration for Collide from chromesthesia—the experience of sound as color. onformative, design firm; Dolby Laboratories, client.
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I was a very fussy child.