gingerus.com is the virtual laboratory of Maarten Ottens from mmott.com. Through this site I follow developments and experiments in design, food, and research related to food, design and technology.

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Limits to Systems Engineering

I just corrected the proofs of my upcoming chapter ‘Limits to Systems Engineering’ in Philosophy and Engineering (I. van de Poel, D.E. Goldberg (eds.), 2009 with Springer). The volume, coming out of the first Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (for which mmott did the design (see here and here)) contains chapters on Philosophy, Reflection and Ethics.

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Backgrounds

For mmott.com I have been experimenting with different kinds of repeating patterns for backgrounds. Inspired by the work of Asao Tokolo featured on the NY Times site I started drawing some patterns for the background of the mmott.com site. Below are some of the designs I came up with.

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mmott.com v2.0β

a jQuery based site

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Singh Bag

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A bag folded out of a single piece of fabric.

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Chocolate Experiments

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Two Hundred Bonbons

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Red Beet Curry with Green Salad

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Red beet curry with basmati rice & green salad with green pepper paste marinated croutons

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Pink Soup

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Admittedly we are not the biggest fan of cabbage. Nevertheless we do have a tendency to buy locally grown seasonal food. Inevitably we end up with cabbage.

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