BERG is a design consultancy, working hands-on with companies to research and develop their technologies and strategy, primarily by finding opportunities in networks and physical things.

The Journey is the second part of our exploration of Media surfaces with ‘Media Surfaces’ – this time looking at the panoply of screens and media surfaces on journeys, and the opportunities that could come from looking at them slightly differently.

Modifying a cheap toy truck into a drawing machine, looking into how we interact with tools that work without people, and considering a playful way of making pictures.

Here & There is a project by BERG exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward. Prints from a limited run are available for purchase.

The Incidental is a socially-constructed map, newspaper and souvenir. A feedback loop made out of paper and human interactions - timebound, situated and circulating in a place, reprinted every night.

Dentsu London are developing an original product called Suwappu. Suwappu are woodland creatures that swap pants, toys that come to life in augmented reality.

Investigating the future of food - specifically the implications of meat grown in labs rather than harvested from living creatures, in terms of systems, products, and culture.

With the BBC, BERG created howbigreally.com, which takes historically or culturally important events (like the 2010 Pakistan floods), and makes them human-scale by putting them over a map of your neighbourhood.

Ringlight is a camera attachment for illuminating close-up objects. It consists of an array of ultra-bright white LEDs, powered by a 5V battery pack, on a laser-cut plastic frame.

Havasu is a robot that helps you find out what films are on when. You talk to Havasu through instant messenger.

Mag+ is an approach for bringing paper magazines to digital media, with a special focus on touchscreen tablets.

Schooloscope turns official government data about schools into easy-to-read English, and smiling faces.

Shuush is an experimental Web toy by BERG.

Availabot is a physical representation of presence in Instant Messenger applications. Availabot plugs into your computer by USB, stands to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when they go away.

Investigating mobile phone personalisation with Nokia through material exploration, and a metal phone that changes form while you wait.

Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home.

Shownar tracks online buzz around BBC TV and radio programmes, highlighting shows that are surprisingly popular, and conversations on blogs and Twitter.

BERG was commissioned by Dentsu London, the creative communications agency, to explore the theme of 'Making Future Magic'.

Media Surfaces explores a universe next door in which media travels freely onto familiar surfaces in everyday life. This film is a collaboration with Dentsu London.

Penki is an iPhone app that allows the easy creation of three-dimensional light painting effects in the "Making Future Magic" film with consumer-grade cameras.

Exploring the shapes and forms of the readable volumes of RFID fields, and the magic of proximity-based interaction.

The Michel Thomas app features a unique interface for a unique language-learning methodology.