Schneider Cup Wood Airplane Models by OKOLO. Like “Our wood airplane models includes Supermarine S.6B, originally built with Rolls Royce engine designed by Reginald Joseph Mitchell. The machine was the fastest airplane at the Schneider cup with speed of 547 km/h. The another model presents unique Savoia-Marchetti S.65 with two propellers. It was developed in 1929, but never entered the race due to technical problems. Called Schneider cup, the race is the most famous airplanes race in the history. Specifically created for seaplanes only, Schneider cup was founded by financier, pilot of the baloon and airplane enthusiast Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1911 as a platform for technical development of the seaplanes, which were predicted as airplanes of the future.
John Grade: Capacitor. Genetically-engineered plants by Carole Collet produce food and lace. Plants could be genetically engineered to produce textiles at the same time as food, according to this synthetic biology project by designer and researcher Carole Collet. "Would you eat a vitamin-rich black strawberry from a plant that has also produced your little black dress? " questioned Collet, whose Biolace concept responds to the need to produce enough food and textiles for the world's rapidly expanding population by proposing that the DNA of plants could be adapted so they produce synthetically-enhanced foods and lace-like fabrics grow from their roots.
"Biolace proposes to use synthetic biology as an engineering technology to reprogram plants into multi-purpose factories," explained Collet, who is a full-time academic and deputy director of the Textile Futures Research Centre at Central Saint Martins College in London. "Plants become living machines, simply needing sun and water to be operational. Photography is by the designer and the film is by Immatters. Pink Punch installation by Nicholas Croft and Michaela MacLeod at 2013 International Garden Festival. The installation Pink Punch created by New York-based architect and designer Nicholas Croft and Michaela MacLeod, who works as a landscape designer and artist at POLYMÉTIS, aims to attract visitors by its striking color, off the beaten path, through the shaped garden rooms, and into the forest.
The new garden room uses the traditional technique of tree wrapping (used to protect trees from the elements) and the color pink to divide the “wilderness” from the garden, in a non-traditional way. This pinkscape is made from natural rubber pink latex rope wrapped around each tree at a height of 10 feet, then wound until it reaches the ground. At the ground, the rope then continues to wind around the base of the tree to a radial distance of 3 to 4 feet. When a small cluster of trees are wrapped to their bases, the rope then envelops them all, creating a communal seating area at the base of each tree. images © 2013, Sylvain Legris, Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens Recommended: Red, Yellow and Blue: Orly Genger's installation at Madison Square Park. For a few more weeks the Madison Square Park will host the incredible colorful installation created by New York-based artist Orly Genger for the Mad.
Sq. Art, the free contemporary program of the Madison Square Park Conservancy. The monumental commission, entitled ‘Red, Yellow and Blue‘, features the artist’s renowned usage of intricately hand-knotted nautical rope covered in paint, creating a work that transformed the park’s lush lawns into colorfully-lined chambers. The work debuted at an inauguration ceremony led by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on May 1, and will remain on view daily through September 8, 2013 in Madison Square Park. Following its New York run, the installation will travel to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum outside of Boston in October 2013, marking the first Mad. Sq. Genger’s work artfully transcends the perceived limits of the materials she employs. All images © JAMES EWING – courtesy of MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY Recommended: The Heart of Architecture by Giles Miller Studio. London-based Giles Miller Studio designed with British metal manufacturers Tecan, ‘The Heart of Architecture’.
This innovative installation has been constructed at the iconic Saint Johns Gate as a part of this year Clerkenwell Design Week. London’s Clerkenwell boasts the highest number of architects per square mile in Europe. The ‘Heart of Architecture’ consists of a giant sculptural target built to stamp Clerkenwell and its inhabitants on the world stage, and to represent this thriving area as the creative core of the British Architectural and Interior design world. Featuring Giles Miller’s signature technique of light and shadow manipulating to show intriguing imagery, the installation has been formed from thousands of systematically hand laid stainless steel and brass ‘pixels’. All images © JON MEADE Recommended: Abstract Canapé - Leif Podhajský. Abstract Canapé Abstract Canapé Digital Collage,2013 Original Photography - Juergen Teller, Céline. Advertising: Exploding spices take centre stage in ace new Grey London advert.
Hey everyone we’ve got a killer early competitor for the best phrase of 2014; may I present “sonic flavourscape.” That’s how the clever folks at Grey London are describing this new work for Schwartz called The Sound of Taste which aims to convey the power and the glory of the brand’s new Flavour Shots. Expect exploding spices set to stirringly dramatic classical music building to a messy, multi-coloured climax. This will probably make you hungry and may make you a bit jumpy if you’re someone who has a penchant for all things clean and tidy.
Grey London: The Sound of Taste for Schwartz Grey London: The Sound of Taste for Schwartz Grey London: The Sound of Taste for Schwartz Grey London: The Sound of Taste for Schwartz Grey London: The Sound of Taste for Schwartz. 6 | Synesthetic Artist Suspends 20 Miles Of Ribbon Inside Grace Cathedral. It’s hard to improve on the interior design of a building as hallowed and grandiose as Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, famed for its stained-glass windows, two labyrinths, and mosaics by Jan Henryk De Rosen. But New York-based artist Anne Patterson managed to make the space even more magical with her installation “Graced With Light,” made from 20 miles of silk ribbons suspended from the cathedral’s vaulted ceiling arches. In blue, green, red, and maroon, the ribbons reflect light from the windows like shimmering celestial curtains. Hundreds of community members were invited to write their prayers, hopes, and wishes on the red ribbons, sending them toward heaven.
Patterson has synesthesia, a neurological condition that, in her case, makes her see sounds and music as shapes and colors. (It’s a condition she shares with a number of famous artists, composers, and writers, including Vasily Kandinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Duke Ellington.) [via SFGate] 8 Mind-Blowing Images Of The Brain At Work. The human brain is mind-blowingly complex. Even in an age when we can track every single step we take with a wristband and we seriously consider sending colonists to Mars, there's plenty that we haven't nailed down about what's going on in our own heads. Since 2010, the Human Connectome Project, funded by $40 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health, has been working toward a high-resolution map of the brain's connections.
By examining the brains of 1,200 volunteers who will spend 10 hours in the lab undergoing tests and scans, the hope is to create a database of the structure and activity of a healthy brain, one that could be cross-referenced with data on psychological, cognitive, and genetic traits. These incredible images show the work the Human Connectome Project has done so far. For context, our current understanding of the brain is kind of like an 18th-century map, as one researcher told the New York Times this week. 4 | You Won't Believe What This Artist Uses To Recreate Dutch Master Portraiture. Dutch Master portraiture from the 17th-Century gets a mind-blowing contemporary makeover in a new series by artist Michael Mapes.
Instead of paint, Mapes uses tiny physical objects like glass vials, insect pins, gelatin capsules, printed photographs, and even human hair to assemble insanely detailed recreations of famous works by the likes of Rembrandt and Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy. Imagine if painter Chuck Close was a history nerd with OCD, and this would be the fantastical result. “I dissect photos of Dutch Master portraits into individual parts, then consider meaningful ways to reconstruct the parts to suggest new ways to perceive the subject,” Mapes tells Co.Design. These pieces are physically assembled as opposed to painted or digitally collaged, giving the work a sculptural, three-dimensional texture that appears pixellated. Museums like Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum offer copyright free, high-res scans of much of their Dutch Masters collection. Art Is Motion - The Project. BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE. The skyscraper sway detector. This article was taken from the December 2013 issue of Wired magazine.
Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. This is an aerial simulation of wind hitting a skyscraper. It was created by research engineer Samuel Wilkinson from the Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation doctoral centre at UCL, to help architects test how their designs would react to wind pressure. High gusts hitting ever-taller skyscrapers can make the buildings sway, cause lasting damage and give its occupants the sensation of sea-sickness. Wilkinson says skyscrapers more than 600 metres tall -- a height where wind speeds can reach 100kph -- are becoming more common. "For buildings upwards of 300 metres, designers need to seriously consider wind loads in their structural calculations," says Wilkinson. "You can't ignore the aerodynamics.
" Colibri. Pixelstick - Light painting evolved. by Bitbanger Labs. What's "light painting"? In 1889, artist Georges Demeny created the first known light painting photograph, “Pathological Walk From in Front”, by attaching incandescent bulbs to his assistant’s clothing and taking a long exposure. The technique was groundbreaking and became the touchstone for 125 years of unique and compelling works of art. Photographers have since added colored lights and performed deft physical feats to capture interesting images, but the technology involved has remained remarkably similar to what Demeny used in that first image. Until today. How do I start? Light painting is a fairly simple to do. If you’re like us, however, as you grow to love the medium, you’ll also grow frustrated with its limitations. The fine detail Pixelstick reads images created in Photoshop (or the image editor of your choice) and displays them one line at a time, creating endless possibilities for abstract and/or photorealistic art.
The full package contains: The Beginning The Middle Music: Laurent-lo. The Art Of Dehydrating Food By Marco Villa Mateos. Photo © Leo C Sam / Art Direction by Mara Salas. Industrial designer Marco Villa Mateos has designed Ouroboros for Galería Zafra in Mexico City. Symbolizing self-reflexivity or cyclicality, the word Ouroboros suggests a sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return or the phoenix which obtains a new life by rising out of the ashes of its predecessor.
Ouroboros as a concept, in a broader sense, symbolizes time and the continuity of life - all captured in a still life.Dehydrating natural produce is a technique that different civilizations have used since ancient times to preserve their food stock. Through the process of dehydration, food “matures” and loses its water content resulting in a transformation of its texture, color and aroma. Essentially, in dying it preserves itself and just like the cyclical existence of a phoenix, this “death” results in something new.
Photo © Leo C Sam / Art Direction by Mara Salas. sources: Marco Villa Mateos. Delicious Tableware By Qiyun Deng. Photo © Qiyun Deng, ECAL. What happens when anything disposable becomes simply too beautiful to throw away? This is the main question behind a fresh design project by Qiyun Deng, a graduate of ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne), who has given tableware utensils the touch and feel of real vegetables and fruits. The ‘‘Graft’’ tableware set was Deng’s graduation project for her Master’s in Product Design (2013), and is an impressive set of forks, knives, spoons and serving bowls that look as if functional objects have been humorously grafted out of farm produce. Deng first copies real plant textures with resin in order to study them, and then imagines how each vegetable or fruit should be used as a piece of tableware.
Although we don’t see ourselves picking out any celery forks from our back yard any time soon, we can certainly use them for the garden's compost, since Deng’s Graft tableware are made of biodegradable PLA bioplastic. Photo © Qiyun Deng, ECAL. sources: Qiyun Deng. Office in a former strip club featuring concrete cast with bubble wrap. Swedish designers Toki Drobnjakovic and Per Sundberg have renovated an underground strip club in Stockholm to create a workplace where walls are embellished with concrete set against bubble wrap (+ slideshow).
A staircase covered in hexagonal concrete leaves, a wall of plants and a torso-shaped sculpture are just some of the additions to the former Blue Star bar, which is now named Studioverket, and functions as both the designers' studio and as a flexible co-working space for freelancers. Using the working title Subterranean Concrete Orgy, Drobnjakovic and Sundberg teamed up with concrete manufacturer Butong to produce the new interior elements, and also enlisted the help of architecture student Noa Ericsson and movie producer Erik Liss. Each concrete structure was cast inside a sandwich of bubble wrap, which could be folded during the setting process to create irregular shapes. "We use high-strength EXM concrete," explained Butong's Lars Höglund. Photography is by Per Lundström. Fabrish_indaar's shop on Spoonflower: fabric, wallpaper and wall decals.
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