| Superfamous is the studio of interaction designer Folkert Gorter, active primarily in graphic and interactive design with a focus on content-driven networks, creative communities and visual publishing interfaces. Folkert lives in Los Angeles, California. Contact: folkert@superfamous.com |  |
| Notable community design projects include: Soundload New York, 2000 — an online music community that provided members with a suite of tools to instantly enhance their personal music experience, foreshadowing the likes of iTunes and Last.fm. Newstoday New York, 2001 — one of the most-visited Web design communities, providing daily art & design inspiration as well as a platform for creatives worldwide. The first online design portal to allow the audience to co-create its contents. SpaceCollective Los Angeles, 2008 — in collaboration with Rene Daalder, SpaceCollective is an online community and independent creative research platform where "forward thinking individuals share ideas and information about possible futures within our lifetimes." | GOOD Los Angeles, 2008 — a social network and editorial publishing platform for GOOD, a community and collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits publishing a magazine, videos, and events. Cargo Los Angeles, 2009 — coming soon: Cargo is a creative publishing platform and CMS that evolved out of the system that runs the SpaceCollective community. Its goal is to dramatically increase the accessibility and exposure of creative individuals on the Internet, while aspiring to build a networked context that will contribute to the culture as a whole. Currently in development. |
Exploring the infinity of abstract possibility
Superfamous elsewares → Cargo → SpaceCollective → but does it float → Twitter → Flickr
disclaimer: As you read this, you do not really see the pixels, the screen, your hands, and the surroundings, but an internal and three-dimensional image that reproduces them almost exactly and that is constructed by your brain. The photons emitted by your screen strike the retinas of your eyes, which transform them into electrochemical information; the optic nerves relay this information to the visual cortex at the back of the head, where a cascade-like network of nerve cells separates the input into categories (form, color, movement, depth, etc.). How the brain goes about reuniting these sets of categorized information into a coherent image is still a mystery. This also means that the neurological basis of consciousness is unknown. (source)