25 MAY 2008

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Design with life

Shi Yuan has created a way to turn normally passive things into something with a life of its own. Like this wallpaper that reacts to heat, the painting that reacts when you touch it, or the daily calendar that fades away during the day.

It is made using heat sensitive paint - and it is incredible.

Heat Sensitive Wallpaper

Turn up the heat and your wallpaper starts to blossom. Here with the radiator is off...and on!

A painting with feelings

Show people how you feel by touching the painting.

The day that simply faded away...

Watch how the day slowly fades away with this calendar

sources:

Shi Yuan , Baekdal, NotCot.org

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Comment(s)

2009-12-02 04:47:54
Online Bingo

Fantastic design I love All of

2009-11-29 16:58:34
loan

such a great designer you are ! i really like your paintings

2009-07-15 15:39:44
Ron Knight

This is an awesome work, what an art work! I am spell bounded by seeing it. I sent this to my friends to check it out through GTalk, as soon as I came across it. Excellent post, keep up the good work.

2009-03-29 01:07:28
Ray

It sure looks beautiful. They can keep you occupied for some time too. Looking at them change.

2009-02-07 17:07:11
Web Design

Very creative and thoughtful indeed. I wish I could lay my hands on one of those.

2009-01-11 13:22:32
Web Hosting India

Simply amazing and beautiful. A reminder of how technology can be and would be used in future to make human life better.

2009-01-06 08:47:33
Web Hosting Company India

hello Well Done!! Your all wallpaper are so sweet i have downloaded and set as my desktop wallpaper as well as my chat logo. Its give a good feel to life. thanks keep it up!!

2008-12-25 15:35:07
cwxwwwxdfvwwxwx

well, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how's life? hope it's introduce branch ;)

2008-09-20 15:55:54
Website Design Company

LMAO thats a pretty cool trick actually, bet the ink isnt cheap. Anyone know how much the ink is comparted to normal ink?

2008-07-10 03:33:59
seo

vaowwww its very creative i liked calendar very much :) thnks

2008-07-03 15:22:40
WP

Very creative!!!

2008-06-30 10:31:36
KK

Good stuff. If the cost is reasonable, it is worth having such things around which gives you a change of atmosphere with heat changes.

2008-06-26 14:39:48
bruce

great idea. Also, I wouldn't mind a wallpaper that indicates the weather outside so that I know if I need sunscreen or an umbrella when I leave in the morning.

2008-06-07 00:39:01
John

anyone know what the name of the type for the text 'life is beautiful'?

2008-06-01 02:14:31
Julie

So could we use this ink on Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il and Putin? Would they become sweet friendly flowers if we heated them up? Who in the world wants to heat up their house just to see their wallpaper change? I wouldn't need it here in Florida.

2008-05-30 03:29:47
JC

Very nice, I remember quite a similar project made by front design about three years ago for an exhibition in Stockholm, Front made a wallpaper where the patttern where appearing with the sun light, it was a UV sensitiv wallpaper. But well this Front design project was really underground.

2008-05-29 23:25:21
flora

It's absolutely beautiful and amazing!! Just think about surprise you have for your friends. Incredible and fantasitic!!! I want to have it!!!

2008-05-28 18:47:39
Computerden

great ideas! i'd like to see what else they come up with.

2008-05-28 05:42:06
TK

This is brilliant! I'm definitely going to look more into this. Another one of those, why didn't I think of that?

2008-05-28 02:11:05
Nanse

That wallpaper makes me want to buy a house, just so I can put it up. Simply beautiful. Congratulations.

2008-05-28 01:57:47
ioannis tsirigotis

THE YATZER IS ABSOLUTE SITE TO DEGING .io_t

2008-05-27 23:18:16
verena philipp

shi,u are sooo cool!!your always truley fan,verena :)

2008-05-26 23:27:39
Dick Gozinya

that is sweet i want that on my walls . http://www.rejectionism.com

2008-05-26 23:06:01
jamie dalgetty

such a great idea! i'd like to see what else they come up with.

2008-05-26 22:49:53
milo

i want these!

2008-05-26 22:46:49
Amanda

Amazing! We could use it not only as home wallpaper but as urban art too. Imagine the whole city changing its walls every season?

2008-05-26 22:24:37
Kadodo

I wish anyone could have a "life is beautiful" poster for home :-) Wish I could have something like that!

2008-05-26 22:13:34
design turk

cool wallpaper, it is based of temprature...

2008-05-26 21:05:13
Privacy

It's like those old hypercolor shirts...

2008-05-26 21:04:32
RD

So I can only know what day it is during the daytime, or during heat? I love in Oregon, does this mean I would never know what day it is? LAME.

2008-05-26 19:57:48
Kevi

anyon see a problem with requiring 35 degrees for full bloom

2008-05-26 19:44:06
Mike

This technology is great... perhaps they could make wives like this... fuck em and then they disappear until you need to call upon them again...

2008-05-26 19:15:33
Marilyn

That's pretty amazing and creative too :) I'd love to see it commercialized.

2008-05-26 18:28:03
website design

hahahahahah look what I found http://ooyes.net/pictures-of-missing-objects

2008-05-26 17:27:57
michi

Wow, I want the wallpaper.

2008-05-26 14:55:29
ollie w

bonus points for having the art of looking sideways on the shelf

2008-05-26 11:58:46
polarizer

kewl. But why is the whole last picture that dark? polarizer

2008-05-26 11:36:20
Macr

What, didn't you guys go through the hypercolour T-Shirt era in the 80's? The colour dies after a couple of years. Fad!

2008-05-26 10:55:18
Print Master

This ink technology has been around for yours, Problem is the colours you can achieve are limited and often the transitional colours are murky and confused. It looks a lot better here than it ever would in reality

2008-05-26 10:20:20
chris

Wow, amazing technology!

2008-05-26 10:06:44
Web Design

I believe there are better applications for this.

2008-05-26 09:58:34
Mokevo

Whoa, that's fuckinturbular! I wish i had one, maybe they could make a clock...

2008-05-26 09:45:05
Daniel Ruiz

This stuff is amazing any idea whether they plan to sell it or not. I hate when I see stuff this cool never make it to market.

2008-05-26 09:05:09
David Greiman

This has a lot of potential if the costs are reasonable.

2008-05-26 09:02:32
sonusandhu

coool!!

2008-05-26 08:55:08
dog

this is great! very creative.

2008-05-26 07:47:53
sonalin pereira

wow thats amazing!!

2008-05-26 07:05:57
jitendra

Hello!! This is really good and worth it. Thanks for everything. Jitendra

2008-05-26 05:31:20
poor

cool for 5 minutes, then you'd not give a flying "f" unless you had some intoxicants