The Museum of Me by Intel is worth exploring. It creates a visual exhibition based on your friends, your photos, your likes, and your words all archived on Facebook. The app takes your visual data and creates a beautiful video. Overall it is very well done. At the end all of your friends become your profile picture. Friend and designer Barbara Emanuel described it best as Really, The people in our lives make us who we are.

Yes, Intel® The Museum of Me is requesting permission to access all of your facebook information. And of course, it’s a promotion for Intel’s Core i5 processors. However, it has upped the game for personalized ads. A 3-d visual rendering of a museum in honor of your world is pretty cool.

Intel if you are looking for ways to improve:
-Add video sharing.
-The algorithm for the words could be better. (My most used word is “for”?)
-Personalize the music. (I know you have the info from my profile.)

Visit Intel® The Museum of Me

Shape Lab is an innovative, interactive space at the MoMA. At Blank Space we highly value the creation of artful installations for kids and adults alike to enjoy.  Shape Lab is one of those places where I can see my version of the universe aligning. The Lab features magnetic walls, geometric shapes, organic shapes, and 3-d shapes of all sizes. It challenges people to experiment, build, and create with shapes. The Lab stimulates new ways of seeing and thinking about form and composition. We need more spaces like Shape Lab.

How different would our world be if Shape Labs were in public schools, libraries, hospitals, and doctor’s offices? I would love to see more interactive spaces in our communities. Graphic design for physical spaces, such as the Tz’dakah Caterpillar created for the Seattle Jewish Community School, is our most inspiring design work. It is encouraging to see the emergence and success of Shape Lab and the importance it places on motivating creativity at all ages.

Read more about The Shape of Things on the MoMA’s blog. If you are in NYC, stop by the Lab before or after visiting MoMA’s galleries. Open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Friday, 10:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. Free with Museum admission

If anyone is interested in creating your own version of a Shape Lab we would love to collaborate.