Aesthetec Studio

06/08/2018

We are participating in our neighbourhood yard sale tomorrow, supposedly the biggest one in Toronto! The yard sale!

We’ll have random AV equipments that we’ve collected over the years of doing installs. Most of them have never been opened! Come by and see if you can use anything. 1832 Danforth. We’re starting at 9.

Danforth East Community Association - DECA

10/18/2017

Cleaning out the studio, found some oooooollld signs

06/30/2017

last day to vote for Little Robot Friends, please click the link and vote in caste your vote in the yellow box!

Vote Little Robot Friends for the Community Choice Prize today!

05/17/2017

Nostalgia! We got a request to quote for an interactive display today and the prospective client referenced this video that we haven't watched for a bit. Can't believe it has been six years since we opened TELUS Spark!

A collection of our interactive exhibits installed at TELUS Spark, Calgary's new science centre. Opened to the public on October 29, 2011. More information…

03/06/2017

Two years ago we collaborated with the talented William Yong of Zata Omm Dance Project in the award-winning production of vox:lumen. We designed and created on-stage light props that harvested kinetic energy of the dancers. The performance was entirely powered by kinetic and renewable energy. Here is the mesmerizing 5-minute video excerpt from the show in 2015:

Zata Omm's vox:lumen at World Stage 2015 Choreographer William Yong proposes a future in which human labour produces energy and the pleasure of movement…

11/18/2016

currently in the studio

11/10/2016

In honour of National STEAM Day, we thought we’d host another fun contest. Enter our Thanksgiveaway to win a brand new Chromebook + Little Robot Friend.

08/24/2016

we miss her tons

Get the whole picture - and other photos from ITP | Tisch | NYU

07/20/2016

Looking for a fun activity to do this weekend? You're in luck! We're at STEAMLabs this Sunday, July 24th hosting back-to-back robot building workshops. The 10am - 12pm session is for kids 8-10 and the afternoon session from 1-3pm is geared towards kids aged 11-13. Spaces are limited, so register today.
Beep boop!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lets-make-a-robot-friend-tickets-26652214491

07/09/2016

This is really nicely done

07/07/2016

Kinetic energy amusement park? Yes please. We lived in Treviso for a short while, now looking forward to go back and visit this!

07/05/2016

we love weird Japanese things, and this is such a fun installation. giant sushi boats!

If you like sushi, boats and weird Japanese things, this story is for you. For one delicious day, Osaka’s Dōtonbori Canal became a real-life sushi train ar

07/03/2016

love

07/01/2016

Happy Canada Day. & Happy 4th! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

06/29/2016

We are pretty proud of this one!

We got a lovely email this week from our friend Becca at Girls Go Digital, a tech and computer science camp for girls and young women. They've been using Little Robot Friends to learn soldering and electronics.

"The girls were so excited to get their LRF working at the end of camp. It was a lot of fun to see the grins as the LRFs lit up. Thank you for helping us to teach the next generation of girls that they can do hard things. That it just takes time, persistence, and a lot of hard work (well and maybe a mentor or two along the way)."

06/12/2016

latest mini project

06/12/2016

A coloring book from The Oatmeal about a mission robot? Perfection.

404 Not Found is a coloring book about a missing robot, written and drawn by The Oatmeal.

05/15/2016

we've always wanted to have an art gallery, and ever since we moved into our store front office on the Danforth we kept saying we should do something with the front window.

so we are beyond thrilled to be hosting the NOBOTS by Toronto artist Robert Shuttleworth in our window space and give the pedestrians a delightful display to look at.

check out Robert's incredible body of work at http://shuttlewerks.weebly.com

05/05/2016

Dear Friends of Little Robot Friends, First off, we want to acknowledge the support of all of our backers, from our first Kickstarter campaign and this latest one. Between pledging your hard-earned dollars to sharing our campaign with your friends and community on social media, we can’t thank you en...

05/05/2016

Watch our favourite collaborator, the talented William Yong describe his new dance piece opening next week in Toronto:

Zata Omm returns to World Stage after the highly successful world premiere of 2015’s Dora Award–nominated vox:lumen. Steer imagines a human trajectory where ...

02/19/2016

Just heard: the LA Kings Science of Hockey exhibit we helped create at Discovery Cube LA won a Silver Award in the Best Museum Environment category by industry org Event Markerter

Fancy!

The best designs of the year have been named. We've got the hot list right here, as the editors of Event Marketer magazine have unveiled the winners of the

10/28/2015

truth of the day from an receipt

10/08/2015

we did some AR work many moons ago, since then haven't seen many cool applications until this one:

09/16/2015

Found this video from Zata Omm, such a beautiful project if we may say so ourselves ;)

http://www.aesthetec.net/portfolio-item/voxlumen-by-zata-omm/

Zata Omm's vox:lumen Produced with Harbourfront Centre's World Stage and in association with York University (The School of Arts, Media, Performance…

08/26/2015

Our friends at TIFF Kids are having a call for submission. It really is a great event, please consider applying if you have something they're looking for:

TIFF Kids’ digiPlaySpace (an “interactive exhibition for ages 3 through 13”) is looking for fun and educational projects to feature in their 2016 program.

07/29/2015

Excited to be part of the Toronto Maker Festival once again! See you guys there!

Join us THIS WEEKEND at Maker Festival Toronto! Get LRF kits or ready-made bots at our booth, attend a workshop or hear Mark Argo talk! http://makerfestival.ca/extravaganza-2015/

03/13/2015

We are currently hard at work in sunny LA for Science of Hockey at the Discovery Cube. The exhibits open next Friday!

03/06/2015

The show 'vox:lumen' opened yesterday and we are featured on front page of the Metro! Tickets are only $40 and runs until this Saturday ONLY. Go see! info on this link: http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage/voxlumen/

02/08/2015

The upcoming dance production, 'vox:lumen', a project that we have been working on with Zata Omm for years, is currently raising funds for its world premiere in March - please support:

A production completely self-fuelled by renewable energy which merges dance, technology and science.

01/26/2015

DIY Kits and Creative Combos may be out of stock... but we can let you know when they're back!

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Have a real nice day!