Threads » News http://blog.threads.dk Design and Indentities, products and architecture Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:33:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Why the electric car fails and failed. 1916: http://blog.threads.dk/2009/10/15/why-the-electric-car-fails-and-failed/ http://blog.threads.dk/2009/10/15/why-the-electric-car-fails-and-failed/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:01:04 +0000 klh@threads.dk http://blog.threads.dk/?p=91 Written in 1916:

The fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist.

-Electrical World Journal (Anno: 1916)

Found in Google books.

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Today I found the answer: Ftp on-The-go for iPhone, this little gem og a program lets you connect via FTP to the site and edit the files remotely.

This post was written from an iPhone somwhere in Vienna.

]]> http://blog.threads.dk/2009/07/22/editing-on-the-go/feed/ 0 Offical deliverer of Space Solutions for the European Space Agency (ESA) http://blog.threads.dk/2009/06/02/we-are-now-registered-as-an-sme-with-the-european-space-agency-esa/ http://blog.threads.dk/2009/06/02/we-are-now-registered-as-an-sme-with-the-european-space-agency-esa/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:31:38 +0000 klh@threads.dk http://blog.threads.dk/?p=75 threads is now an official deliverer of space solutions

ESA has accepted our registration as SME.
Threads is now officially a deliverer of Space Solutions.

We are exited to begin exploring this new area of design

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New logo for Artreview.
hope you like it

]]> http://blog.threads.dk/2009/05/29/logoworks/feed/ 0 Our Iphone program is done http://blog.threads.dk/2009/05/22/our-iphone-program-is-done/ http://blog.threads.dk/2009/05/22/our-iphone-program-is-done/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 10:45:30 +0000 klh@threads.dk http://blog.threads.dk/?p=67 Finally we’ve put the last few pieces together to finalize our first iphone application.
It’s been an interesting journey to create something for a computer that small.

We will let you know when the program appears in the itunes store for sale.
In the meantime here’s an image of the final icon.

Application icon for our iphone app

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The idea behind the project is to put more focus on recycling and try to change the way people look at trash.

What we do is that we find trash of all kinds and bring it home. It could be an old lamp or a toilet seat, anything goes. After we have cleaned the object and painted it, we put it back in the street as an art piece.

What happens with the object from here, we will let you decide. Should it have a place in your home or should it just go back to the garbage can where it came from? Its up to you to decide.

Gadegalleriet works after the simple slogan of “Abandoned, evicted and searching for a new home”
Watch the Gadegalleriet movie from Bergen, Official flickr and Website.

the_dudekidhellfire1BAbies made from airducts

]]> http://blog.threads.dk/2009/05/09/gadegalleriet/feed/ 0 Teaching students to work with art in Germany http://blog.threads.dk/2009/05/05/teaching-student-to-work-with-art-in-germany/ http://blog.threads.dk/2009/05/05/teaching-student-to-work-with-art-in-germany/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 07:32:39 +0000 klh@threads.dk http://blog.threads.dk/?p=27 Flensburg, Germany where we and a group of student explored the possibilities of digital art.]]> We have recently returned from a week in Flensburg, Germany where we and a group of student explored the possibilities of digital art.
The students at the school had a theme centered around the 7 deadly sins , they divided in groups and each group chose a deadly sin to express in art. Some classes worked exclusively with digital art, some with drama others with sculptural art & cinematography.

We’ll post this project to our website in full when everything has been produced and printed on canvas.

But for now you can enjoy a few images of the lessons and the jaunt to the scrap yard.

Collecting scrap

Collecting scrap

More after the jump

Teaching art class

Teaching art class

Collecting scrap in the scrapyard

Collecting scrap in the scrapyard

Teaching class in digital art

Teaching class in digital art

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I am pleased to announce that we will soon be releasing our first iphone program.
It has been interesting to develop for this amazing little platform, we will be releasing the program on Itunes Store next month.

We are hoping this will be the first of many small iphone apps from threads.

Updates will follow here.

]]> http://blog.threads.dk/2009/04/20/iphone-goodness/feed/ 0 Website update http://blog.threads.dk/2009/04/06/new-updates-to-our-cases-sections/ http://blog.threads.dk/2009/04/06/new-updates-to-our-cases-sections/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:49:12 +0000 klh@threads.dk http://blog.threads.dk/?p=17 We have just finished adding a dozen new projects to our website, check it out. We hope you like them.

If you haven’t seen it before the “View images only” feature is a great way of getting a quick overview of all our online projects, without all the project descriptions.

]]> http://blog.threads.dk/2009/04/06/new-updates-to-our-cases-sections/feed/ 0 1.234 workers for our identity http://blog.threads.dk/2009/03/31/1234-workers-for-our-identity/ http://blog.threads.dk/2009/03/31/1234-workers-for-our-identity/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:17:09 +0000 klh@threads.dk http://blog.threads.dk/?p=15 We have decided on a small experiment in honor of our first real website update in a long time.
We decided to hire 1.234 people through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to help us create material for our companies identity.

Keep checking back here to see how the projects progresses.

UPDATE: We decided to go through www.HIT-builder.com since they offer and easier entry into the Mechanical Turk system when ordering from outside the USA.

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