Digital Door by peter dieter from germany

Digital Door makes use of the mostly empty surface spaces of doors. Depending on requirements, cost and technology used, the Digital Door is equipped with a screen that is basically a pool that collects programmed or subscribed personal news and information via a W-LAN network. Useful both in business and residential surroundings, these screens can serve a variety of purposes: from a quick personal overview over the daily schedule and important news in the morning in a pure one colour grid to full colour entertainment/art projection or wayfinding system in public surroundings. The opacity of the transparent LCD panel can be controlled in itself or blacked out with its grid. Generally, it is important and vital to the longevity of the product to keep the system as independent and simple as possible. Therefore, the quick text message aesthetic seems most appropriate - it serves its purpose without wanting to feature everything, endangered of being outdated by "newer technology".

With the built-in screens as an atmospherical high-tech feature, the choice of materials and colours for the door itself can be both reduced and subtle (or even, in a contrasting way, "old-fashioned" with classical woods) without being boring. However, to maximise the atmosphere of being contemporary, of streaming information and news tickers, even the loudest colours and varnished artificial surfaces could form a surprising unit that is leaving the expectation of a normal door and is instead turning into a functional piece of industrial design.