Davide Cocchi + Luca De Rosso

Concept: All around Venice as in all the cities there are flyers—advertising apartments for rent, concerts, lectures, political meetings, etc.

FlyerCafé brings them into the bar, allowing playful as well as useful interaction with virtual announcements.

What is it: FLYER CAFE is an interactive bar where people can read public flyers as everyone usually can do on the walls in the street. The idea is to keep the materiality of wall posting using the normal café's stuff but also improve the visibility of the announces.

How it works: to consult the announces people can choose between four catecogy of public announce represented by different coasters which are:

- Flats: for demands and offers about estates announce;
- Free Time: for announce like concerts, exhibitions, shows etc;
- Buzz: ..for instance: “I’ve lost my dog! Please find it!!”;
- Jobs: demands and offers.

There is also the “new stuff” coaster to know what’s new in the last 24 hours.

When the coaster is on the bar it is recognized by the software which provide to shows all the relative announces. Then the user can consult the flyers. He can keep apart some of them if he is intrested in something or print a copy to have a phisical personal “promemoria”.

Make an announce is easy as send an mms. In fact the person who would make a post has only to take a photo about the argument, write the subject of the mms (which will be the title of the flyer) and add some informative text. Then send it to FLYER CAFE. Automatically a template will be compiled by the software and the flyer will be visible to the customers.

Interaction: to keep the materiality of wall posting we chose to use the normal café's stuff in way to give more power to the interaction with the flyers.

The coasters are very simple, distinct by colors. Colors are used also to communicate when a new  flyer arrive to FLYERCAFE which gradually changes the surface's color with the typology color.

Sugarbags represent the paperclips which function is to keep apart some interesting announces. 

In order to have a good representation of the announce on the bar wh chose a standard template for all. In the front there is only the big image of the announce to catch the atention of the user, whereas in the back there is the same picture in a smaller size an all the informations. 

To show the age of the announce they appear ruined week by week. 

Credits: FLYERCAFE is still a prototype, developed at IUAV University in Venice with professors Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor in collaboration with Durrel Bishop and Davide Rocchesso.

Software used: Processing, reacTIVision 

Stuff used: a projector, a mirror, a big sheet of plexiglass for the surface and a table for the bar.

Brainstorming, sketches and project development: Davide Cocchi & Luca De Rosso.

Prototype’s problem solving: Davide Cocchi & Luca De Rosso.

Code: Davide Cocchi.

Graphics & storyboard: Luca De Rosso.