A four screen installation showcasing original futures of zero-emissions racing
Category: LAB
Original design fictions & stories
SIMONES DE GAULLÉON — A Public Experiment in Political Fiction
A public thought-experiment in politics and AI where dead heroes are artificially brought back to life to run for the presidency
Personal Assistant of the Collapsing Nation of Pyria
A durable personal assistant designed to help the amateur survivalist out of post-apocalyptic pinches
I Went to Mexico City to Discover How Crypto-economics Could Save the Environment, and All I Got Was This Lousy T‑shirt.
A short piece of fictional investigative journalism exploring a future Mexico City
F F T P — Soundtrack to Future Fishing
Collection of soundtracks for FFTP projects
Moving Parts
A visual thought experiment about just-in-time-mobility.
Presomnic Image Permanence Device & Dreamscapes
Fictional devices born out of the commodification of sleep
CCCC.City — Game Kit Design
Citizen Kit for CCCC.City collaborative worldbuilding game
→ C D R M X — Watch Fictional Talk @Republica 18
Stream of a fictional public talk (to a very real audience) on social cryptoeconomics for the CDRMX project
La Renta — Basic Income With A Twist
A form of universal income imagined to incentivise participative economy and fight corruption
C D R M X — Autonomous Neighborhood Printing
Design for a semi-ridiculous and fully-autonomous neighborhood printer
The Future Fishing Training Program — Presentation Video
Documentary-style presentation of the Future Fishing Training Program, a program to help visualize futures
HTML2RPG — Hyperlinked map editor for a playable internet
A look into alternative ways at navigating web content
→ View the Map of the Normal Future
Map of the Normal future
An interactive map of the Culture, a future city that has expanded vertically.
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Project Page
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Background and Technicalities
Background information on the speculative fashion project
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Fashioned Out of Digital Fabric
Apparel v1.0 is an experimental prototype of future AR fashion
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Documentary
Documentary fiction depicting a future, half-digital approach to fashion
Normal, Like Source Code Chic
Short story for the A P P A R E L project
A P P A R E L V1.0 — Soundtrack
Soundtrack of the A P P A R E L project.
Mangel — Angel Diet Food Printer
Speculative food dispenser with autonomous mobility. Background object in N 0 0 2
Locales of the Normal Future #1 — UTF404
Creative worldbuilding workshop with design students from Les Arènes, Toulouse
The Price of Appreciation
Investigative-style fiction looking at the evolution of 'Likes' into digital currencies
Like a First Dip Into the Stream
A speculative paper role-playing game in anticipation of the web’s future mutations
Birthmachine — Celestial Hyperventilation Mod
Speculative device for giving birth autonomously
N 1 2 3
A set of 3 publications revisiting the work of N O R M A L S during the years 2012 — 2013, all narratively bound by a graphic novel
N 0 0 2
Second issue of the N O R M A L S publication series.
N 0 0 1
First issue of the N O R M A L S publication series.
N 0 0 3
Third issue of the N O R M A L S publication series.
N 1 2 3 — The soundtrack
Theme for the N123 release music video
N 1 2 3 — Release Clip
Short music video in diegesis to celebrate the release of N O R M A L 001 + 002 + 003
Rapid Language — Interactive Learning App
An interactive application to learn Rapid Language, a speculative mode of communication for a future, ever-accelerating web.
The Culture, A World-City
A fictional city and setting to the 'Normal Future.' Also used as a sandbox for various projects and collaborations.
N O R M A L T Y P E — Specimen Posters
Specimen posters showcasing a dynamic and variable typeface
N O R M A L T Y P E v1.5.4
New and revised version of our parametric typeface
A P P A R E L v0.9a
A dynamic piece of clothing that is half digital and half physical
P O L Y R O T O R v1.1
Experimental vector drawing application
N O R M A L T Y P E v1.0
A custom application of variable and parametric typography
Normal, Like a Glitch
Short fiction on AR and the value of digitally native objects
Augmented Futilities #2
AR as a place for objects of a sentimental or symbolic value
Augmented Futilities #1
Sample from visual research on an augmented landscape.
Rapid Language — Speculative Linguistics
A research project looking at interoperating human and machine language on an intuitive level