A Living Sculpture That Mimics Your Body Movements In Light. Astonishing Tribal Portraiture, Taken Using Western Eyes. Namsa Leuba is a young photographer who grew up in Switzerland with a European father and a Guinean mother.
As a student, she studied the rituals and cosmology of her mother’s native country, and received a grant to visit Guinea-Conakry in her final year at the University of Art and Design Lausanne. In early 2011, Leuba spent three months living and working in a village that had been founded by her great-grandfather. Ya Kala Ben is the award-winning thesis Leuba shot during those months. An Artist All Grown Up Who Sticks To Paper, Glue, And Scissors. It’s a youngster’s rite of passage to awkwardly wield a pair of safety scissors, snip into a sheet of construction paper, swipe a glue stick across the scraps, and see the whole masterpiece stuck up on the fridge at home.
Artist Michael Velliquette has taken the basic skill of cut-and-paste to a whole new level with his incredibly intricate paper sculptures. Ripon College in Wisconsin hosted his most recent solo exhibition, which showcased a survey of his work over the past seven years. “The title of the show--One From Many From One--was about the expansion and contraction of an artist’s process, the evolution of a body of work over a lifetime,” he tells Co.Design. “It was a chance to see the various ways technical, formal, and conceptual threads have woven together during a period of intense personal and creative growth.”
Google's Photo Tours Suggest A Crowdsourced, 3-D World Map. Remember how ridiculous Google Street View was the first time you heard about it?
One company--an Internet company no less! --was sending cars on every road in the U.S. (and then the world) to build a seamless map of images, a first-person view of what it would look like to be almost anywhere. Of course, there are places where cars can’t go, like into St. Mark’s Basilica or through the Trevi Fountain. “We use state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to organize and position all the photos in 3-D. The result is the view of a place from the hive mind, a collective map created from our inner auteurs. Meet Wendy, A Partyscape That Cleans The Air. When Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner got a phone call saying their design had won MoMA’s annual Young Architects Program (a competition to build an outdoor partyscape for its PS1 location in Queens), they had the same reaction almost every architect feels after winning a major competition: “Now how do we build it?”
Hollwich and Kushner, principals of New York architecture office HWKN, had proposed the most ambitious structure in the 13-year history of MoMA’s program. What The Red Baron Can Teach You About Hiring Creative Talent. During World War I, German fighter pilots found themselves heavily outnumbered above the skies of France and Flanders.
So, in June 1917, their high command did something radical. They combined several squadrons, each of which had planes of a distinctive color. They put them under the command of their most successful pilot, whose brightly colored plane had made him famous: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Explore The Galaxy Using The Actual "Minority Report" Interface. NASA’s Kepler mission is doing what we may one day call NASA’s most important project.
It’s searching for habitable planets--second Earths--that our grandchildren’s grandchildren may call home, or that could contain life as we know it. So far, NASA’s spotted about 2,300 of these exoplanets, including 48 that appear to be in a sweet spot distance away from the sun. Millennials Don't Think Like Their Parents. How Do You Design For Them? During this year’s Super Bowl, Chevy introduced their new Sonic by making it skydive, flip, and bungee jump to the theme of We Are Young.
To say they were making a run at the youth market would be an understatement. But what is this new youth market, other than young? You can call us hipsters. A Dynamic Data Viz Of Bike Use In A 24-Hour Period. A Nightlight That Teaches Kids To Love Solar Power. Victor Vetterlein has always been interested in sustainability.
The Philadelphia native is well known for his recyclable lighting, which ranges from biodegradable bamboo chandeliers to egg-crate office lamps. But when he became a father earlier this year, he found his perspective as a designer had changed. “I began to think about how design could be used to teach children,” says Vetterlein, who grew up in a family of engineers and designers. Remembering how his early exposure to their ideas had shaped his interest in architecture, he set out to design an everyday object that could engage kids with ideas about sustainability. Artist Hacks 5 Life Support Machines, So They All Keep Each Other Alive. You’re looking at the ultimate human life-support system--a menu of contraptions needed to stay alive no matter how your body betrays you.
Heart failing? You’re covered. Lost kidney function? OMG This Exists: Inhalable Alcohol Gives An Instant Buzz. Humans have been inventing weird (and often unsavory) ways to get themselves embarrassingly drunk for centuries.
But the makers of Wahh, a new inhalable alcohol mist, say their product is designed to do just the opposite. Wahh is the invention of David Edwards, the Harvard professor whose inhalable caffeine and smokable chocolate have appeared on this site before. Infographic: Surprise! Congress Has Almost No Independent Thinkers. We paint a pretty broad brush with our politics. Party affiliations that are so important that they appear on every election ballot right next to someone’s name meaning that the party is, in essence, just as important as the person. But could this really be true? Are all politicians such partisan sheep? In a word, yes, at least according to this enlightening data visualization by Adrien Friggeri, who analyzed the Senate roll call votes from the first congress to today. Plinko Game Creates Poetry Using Tweets From Fox News And NYT. Ever since magnetic poetry permeated dorm room refrigerators everywhere, wordsmithing has never been the same.
The once eloquent haiku had been deconstructed into mix and match sentiments for the half-sober. Why I don’t know how Blurry, fleeting, brusque, blue, sweet Life was love Red Bull Now a team of NYU masters students, Inessah Selditz and Deqing Sun, has taken the idea of insta-poetry to its next logical steps: media satire and game shows. Called Plinko Poetry--a nod to the famous Price Is Right game--users drop a plastic disc down rows of pegs, and as the disc bounces down its unpredictable path, the disc determines a random sampling of words pulled from the latest Fox and New York Times tweets. The idea makes you smile. Wait. Why Is Nike Making Clothes For An Artist Who Skewers Branding? Two weeks ago, New Yorkers rushed to their office windows to watch the space shuttle fly by the city on its way to retirement.
While we were reminiscing about NASA’s better days, artist Tom Sachs was planning a four-week mission to Mars. From a launchpad on the Upper East Side. Beginning tomorrow, Sachs will launch SPACE PROGRAM: Mars, a detailed recreation of a 30-day shuttle mission to explore the red planet. Big Bloom, A Magnifying Vase That Supersizes Your Flowers. Ever wished you could see what the bee sees? That’s how Dutch company The Cottage Industry introduces its newest product, Big Bloom, a vase that uses a fresnel lens to magnify the intricate details of flowers. Fresnel lenses were invented by French physician Augustin-Jean Fresnel in the 18th century to help steer ships safely into harbor with brighter lighthouse lanterns. Today, the super-lightweight lenses are all around us, in traffic lights, televisions, magnifying lenses, and overhead projectors. 11 Brainy Artworks That Toy With Typography And The Limits Of Language. In 1989, British artist and graphic designer Paul Elliman set out to create a font based on found objects-- like antique brooches, rotting cardboard pieces, and rusty binder rings--in which no piece was used more than once.
Each character had to be small enough to put in your mouth, and had to have been created by a human. Watch: Vibrating Suit Teaches Gymnasts About Perfect Body Posture. MIT Creates Amazing UI From Levitating Orbs. Anyone else see The Avengers? Researchers Glean Deep UI Lessons From A Haptic Steering Wheel. We’re not supposed to text while driving. That makes sense--it diverts your eyes and mental attention elsewhere. But what about your average turn-by-turn GPS screen? An Insider's View On Instagram's True Value To Facebook. "I was always trying to convince [Instagram CEO] Kevin Systrom to partner with us--we wanted to be the print button on Instagram pretty badly," says Adrian Salamunovic, cofounder of CanvasPop, the service that turns digital photos from sites like Facebook and Instagram into physical prints.
Here's Some Finger Paintings Made By An Adult. Former D&D Gaming Guru Ditches Dice, And Creates Magic Wand With Bluetooth. An LED Lamp That Pops Up From A Single Circuit Board. Vimeo Co-founder Starts DIY.org, An Online, Social Scrapbook For Kids. Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business Advantage. Infographic: North Carolina’s Gay Marriage Ban Seems Downright Predictable. SoundCloud's Founder Creates An Album From Church Noises. Watches Inspired By The Glamour Of Classic Cars. Kickstarter Rescues Startups That VCs Won't Touch, But Here's What's Missing. Windows 8 Schools Google Chrome In Building A Great User Experience. One Simple Fact - Steve Jobs Vision Of The World.
What OCD Looks Like: Micro-Collages Made From Thousands Of Paper Bits. The 3 White Lies Behind Instagram's Lightning Speed. A Facebook Designer Remakes The Web, Without All The Noisy Words. How Companies Like Amazon Use Big Data To Make You Love Them. Weird But Genius: Feel Me App Turns Texting Into Touching. Photographer Goes Searching For Ghosts, Finds Awesome Smoke Bombs Instead. Watch: 40 Years Of Pentagram Work In 3 Minutes. Audio-Powered City Map Enables Geolocated Eavesdropping. This Gizmo Lets You Draw A UI On Paper, Then Turns It Into A Touch Screen. iPad App Retells Frankenstein, And Hints At The Future Of E-Books. Infographic: In 80 Years, We Lost 93% Of Variety In Our Food Seeds. Camper’s New Shoe Store Visualizes The Act Of Walking. Readlists.com Is Like Mixtapes For E-Reading.
Infographic: Sweet Jesus, The Patent War Has Gotten Crazy. Yahoo Announces Axis, A New Visual Paradigm In Web Search UI.