Six:Thirty is a creative practice focused on our relationship with design and technology. Here is a presentation we have done at Google Creative Lab in London.

1. привет
Ciao
Hylô

2. A creative practice focused on our
relationship with design and technology.

3. We play with data.
Our goal is to help the user to unfold the story
behind the data, reinterpret and reappropriate it.

4. We empower users.
In order to achieve this, we make results that are
personal and let the participant be a part of
a bigger project.

5. We make digital tangible.
By introducing a physical aspect we try to extend
digital experiences beyond the screen.

6. Out of Print was a live printing installation that
explored our relationship with the news.

7. Context
How much do we understand
from reading the news today?

8. Every day we’re bombarded with ever growing
amount of news from different sources.
We find our attention divided by multiple headlines and
content, ultimately generating a sense of confusion.
With natural language processing software and traditional
printing techniques Out of Print explored this notion.

9. This is how it worked:
User selects news sources
to generate a headline.
User edits and sends the
headline to print queue.
Headlines are printed by
hand using the letterpress.
Posters are exhibited
in the gallery space.

10. Watch the video of Out of Print here:
http://www.sixthirty.pm/portfolio/out-of-print/

11. The App.
We used Alchemy API to process the news of the day
and pull out words from the news articles.

12. The App.
Childhood music lessons
'leave lasting brain boost'.
BBC News
A bomb has exploded in
a Damascus square.
The Guardian
Fancy being inside a teapot
for your final resting place?
Daily Mail
The visitors could then combine the words
and create their own news headlines.

21. Context
Everyone is a creator.
Everyone is a publisher.
Online communities are the
new editors and curators.

22. Question
Can a collaborative model of publishing
be used outside of the online space?

23. Collate is a project exploring the possibilities of digital
collaboration. An installation commissioned by London Design
Festival allowed visitors to take part in creating an image
based book at the V&A Museum.

24. This is how it worked:
Screen 1
Screen 2
Screen 3
Screen 4
Select and tag images
Design pages
Vote for spreads
Preview

30. Collate the book.
The 50 most popular user generated spreads voted
by visitors will be printed in a book.
Here are some examples of the spreads.

31. Nature

32. Nature

33. Nature

34. London

35. Nature

36. London

37. Materials

38. Graphics

39. Graphics

40. Challenges.
Whilst we were working on Collate we ran
into several issues such as defining the way users
collaborate on designing spreads.

41. Paper Prototype

42. Challenges.
At a certain point we implemented concurrent layout on the
same page: two users on two separate machines editing the
same spread using web sockets.

43. Challenges.
Although the idea was great, the results were
disruptive, changing collaboration into a battle.

45. Unexpected Results.

46. Visitors loved tagging.
The visitors were as engaged with tagging images as they
were with designing the spreads, sometimes even more so.

47. Age wasn’t a barrier.
The V&A attracted a very diverse crowd many of whom had
never used a touchscreen before. Some of them were hesitant
but after us explaining the way it worked and talking through
the screens, they spent more time engaging with the
installation compared to younger, more tech savvy audience.

48. Watch the video of Collate here:
http://www.sixthirty.pm/portfolio/collate/

49. Thanks.
www.sixthirty.pm
@sixthirtystudio