IF YOU want to know how much e-mail you’ve got, just glance at the
masterpiece hanging by your window. Curtains that resemble a Piet Mondrian
painting are ideal for displaying digital information, the conference heard.
“This is a whole new concept in interior design,” says Lars Erik Holmquist of
PLAY Interactive Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden, who designed the curtains with
Tobias Skog. “You can hang something in your living room which is a combination
of decoration and information.”
One look at your curtains could give you the weather report, tell you the
state of your e-mail inbox, or even how…
