Dirk + Weiss creates sophisticated solutions for social design.
We look at design as awhole product with a focus on impact and the event. Our specialty is connections and the nature of the interactive process.
Technology has become a crucial factor in the development and execution of 21st century design. We combine future and currently available technologies to create appropriate solutions for our clients. The latest is now.
Contact+: The latest product from Dirk+Weiss. This interactive furinture piece can be used from education to business to marketing. We're putting touch technology within reach. Contact Plus infuses brands and content in a live setting. Contact Plus uses touch interactive hardware with data driven software.
Kiosk:- Run Demo The goal of this project is to demonstrate the necessity of dynamically driven street advertising as a replacement to the current print method. The new method, incorporates by-the-minute advertising revenue and specialized services for the consumer on-the-go including maps, movie ticket purchases, email and phone access via Skype, and most importantly FREE WI-FI Internet access.
Kiosk is also accompanied by all supported marketing data. With the assistance of Fidelity Investments, we will create a professionally developed pricing structure based on the new parameters of by-the-minute advertising.
This project is currently in Beta form as both a working demo and presentation prototype. The kiosk, in its final phase, will be turn-key; A fully functioning interactive public resource.
The software is written to work across many operating systems and the web. It can be installed on a computer and run in a full screen mode to make a proprietary kiosk type setup, or run on the web, embedded in a website. Note: In Beta.
Ta-Dah: - Launch Site A search engine of blog entries and syndications across the blogosphere. Each blog syndication feed will be connected to each-other by a simple tagging system. The view of the search results will be in scrolling headline tickers that give the end-user access to the most amount of relevant information possible. This way the user can get in, get what they want, and get out.
Technical advancements are being made to this to create a method in which tickers naturally spawn out topics to what ever the user queries for.
AIGA Boston Website Promo: A motion grapghics video that showcases and highlights key areas of the new AIGA Boston website. Created in High Definition, for the display on LCD and Plasma TV's.
Synthesis: - Run Demo This is an interactive advertising object that pitches the concept of a new adobe product geared toward educating k-12 students, using visual methods.
We plan on modeling the system needed to make take this product from drawing board to the classroom.
Typography Advocate: This project started as an idea to fill a void of American typographics publications. But, after a very brief time, the realization of "once it is printed, it is outdated" set in. So the solution turned into an online approach.
The internet offered many avenues to reach the largest audience possible. The project moved into the realm of Social Networking. The idea of collaboration started here, but the Social Network was still the wrong approach. Social Networks tend to become too broad and already have a bad rap due to the existence of Myspace and Facebook (they actually disconnect people).
So the project has almost come full circle. Typography Advocate has come to its final stage that emphasizes collaboration of real, selected people. An online journal of student design work. This will be a collaborative project that branches out to solicited students across the country, that are in design programs.
Social Interaction Map: - View Poster
This concept model shows a whole process that measures not only the value of interaction, but the possible downfalls that ever expanding social networks can propose. Research Modeling.
World War One: - Run Demo
Drag and Drop learning object to replace the original black and white paper version of the same activity.
Natural Selection: - Run Demo
An interactive classroom activity to teach Natural Selection. For College Level students. Note: Large File
Industrial Revolution: - Run Demo
A history lesson brought to life. A replacement for a paper based classroom activity. For college level students.
Street Attack Blog: - Launch Site As with many companies, blogs are becoming the forefront of news gathering. Street Attack, a great alternative markeing company in Boston, had been blogging on a free, template based controlled system, and asked Dirk+Weiss how they could get more out of their time blogging. So with the help of their design team, we created a new system for them to blog in.