December 2011
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I.D.: target bookshelf by mebrure oral
‘target books’ shelf by mebrure oral the ‘target books’ shelf by turkish designer mebrure oral is designed to keep books organized by separating them into sections of ‘already read’ and ‘yet to read’. each segment is demarcated by its own bookend, a line of text that is built into the shelf that states either ‘has been read’ or...
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I.D: Herman Miller Presents An Inside Look into...
In conjunction with the release of the documentary, Eames: The Architect and the Painter, Herman Miller launched a companion website that invites the audience to get an inside look at the connection between the Eames’ legacy and Herman Miller’s design heritage. Eames enthusiasts can explore images, videos and quotes exclusively collected from the Herman Miller archives, with additional...
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3D Printing: Three Cubes Colliding
Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.
Here is the latest experimental kite designed by Sash Reading with Ivan Morison, fabricated and engineered by Queen and Crawford. The kite features 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric. This video shows the whole team at the kite’s test flight in Jersey. To see Sash’s other work, including Meteor Kite...
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TENTS: Whitepod - a nomad camp in the Swiss Alps
“Whitepod resort” Les Cerniers, in the Swiss Alps | All photos © Vincent Hofer | Jean-Marc Palisse
Of course, they are there – the fancy hotels in the mountains. But today we want to show you a really different hotel: “Whitepod Resort” in the Swiss Alps, above Monthey, in the canton of Wallis. The hotel is built according to a bungalow concept: there are numerous little...
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3D TOOLING: Drzach&Suchy use rapid-prototyping
Look at Conversation, a new installation by Swiss artists Drzach&Suchy, and you’ll see a huge pixely portrait of Albert Einstein. But look again a few seconds later, and you’ll see—as plain as the mole on her face—a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. Conversation is a 3-D printed “shadow casting panel” that uses subtle shifts of light to uncover...
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MATERIAL: Berkeley Researchers Develop Cheap,...
by Timon Singh, 12/16/11
We’ve seen lots of amazing concepts for flexible gadgets in recent years – from Samsung’s bendy smartphone to e-newspapers that you can roll up. However researchers at Berkeley Lab are taking the technology to the next level by imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable – essentially creating a new type of electronic skin.
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INSTALLATION: amid.cero9 - the golden dome
‘the golden dome’ by amid.cero9 image © designboom the ‘architectural environments for tomorrow - new spatial practices in architecture and art’, an exhibition at the MOT museum of contemporary art tokyo, explores the modern interconnectivity between technology, urbanism and the way designers respond and influence our changing global culture. the show is a collaboration...
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3D MEDIA: scribbled line digital portraits
‘cinema-flash showdown’ scribbled line digital portraits by ayaka ito and randall church blending programming, design, and photography the ‘cinema-flash showdown’ is a series of digital photographic works created by american designers ayaka ito and randall church while students at the college of imaging arts and sciences at rochester institute of technology (RIT). to...
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PAVILION: akihisa hirata architecture office -...
‘bloomberg pavilion’ by akihisa hirata architecture office, tokyo, japan photo © takumi ota images courtesy of akihisa hirata architecture office + museum of contemporary art tokyo currently on display, the ‘bloomberg pavilion’, an outdoor installation designed by japanese practice akihisa hirata architecture office will become a stage for changing exhibitions for the...
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NEWS: Cognitive Computing - When Computers Become...
The gnomes at IBM’s research labs were not content to make merely a genius computer that could beat any human at the game of jeopardy. They had to go and create a new kind of machine intelligence that mimics the actual human brain.
Watson, the reigning jeopardy champ, is smart, but it’s still recognizably a computer. This new stuff is something completely different. IBM is setting out to build an...
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“Beauty without intelligence is a Masterpiece painted on a napkin.”
– Unknown
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GEOMETRY: Duality Principle - Geometric Duality
All the propositions in projective geometry occur in dual pairs which have the property that, starting from either proposition of a pair, the other can be immediately inferred by interchanging the parts played by the words “point” and “line.” The principle was enunciated by Gergonne (1825-1826; Cremona 1960, p. x). A similar duality exists for reciprocation as first...
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SCIENCE: Teenager Wins Siemens Award for Her...
by Lori Zimmer, 12/09/11
Angela Zhang is a real life Doogie Howser – while other high school kids were busy texting and updating their Facebook pages, Zhang has been hard at work doing research to fight cancer. And her efforts have proven successful – the 17-year-old was just awarded the Grand Prize in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for her cancer cell-killing...
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SCULPTURE: Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art
Sol LeWitt (Hartford, 1928 – New York, 2007), Costruzione cubica, 1971
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
Formal art is essentially rational.
Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
If the artist...
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ARCHITECTURE: The Cloud - MVRDV’s Luxury Twin...
by Bridgette Meinhold, 12/08/11
MVRDV recently unveiled their plans for a new luxury residential complex in Seoul, Korea, which features two twin skyscrapers joined in the middle by a pixelated cluster. Named The Cloud, the luxury high rises would be located within the Yongsan Dreamhub project. The cluster of blocks in the center provides space for public and private gardens, green roofs, and...
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ARCHITECTURE : SFMOMA Funds New Firehouse In...
by Lori Zimmer, 12/08/11
The city of San Francisco and the SFMOMA have just struck up a deal that leaves everyone happy. The new SFMOMA expansion, to be designed by Norwegian starchitects Snøhetta, will be built on city land in exchange for a new firehouse. The new firehouse will be funded by SFMOMA, and built to be bigger, more modern and earthquake safe.
The SFMOMA was looking at an...
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INSTALLATION: Audi and BIG Show introduce Urban...
Audi and BIG showed up at Art Basel Miami last week with what could be mistaken as the latest dance floor design, a huge LED surface which illuminates and tracks humans. The floor act as a large scale demonstration of “Urban Future,” . The concept is based on integrating driveless electric cars into advanced roadways that guide the vehicles, eliminating curbs, traffic lights and other types of...
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ROBOTS: Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio... →
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Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler
Source: Dezeen
Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month.
Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month.
Created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea, the mobile machines...