Jack Schulze has written up some thoughts and background on the new RFID icon based on our Immaterials’ visualisation work from last week.
Download a vector file of this creative commons symbol.
An ongoing Touch theme is about making invisible wireless technologies visible, in order to better understand and communicate with and about them (see a Graphic Language for RFID, Dashed lines and Fictional radio spaces).
Right now I am sitting near fourteen objects sending and receiving radio signals, from Oyster cards to mobile phones and wireless [...]
I’m happy to say that with great contributions from Nicolas Nova, Matt Jones and many others, the pool of images of ‘touch interfaces’ on Flickr is growing nicely. I originally asked for contributions in February 2005, and the pool has been growing steadily ever since.
This collection of ‘vernacular’ designs for RFID-based interfaces is extremely [...]