Design

July 21, 2012

A Mathematically Celestial Light Installation

Berlin-based artist Olafur Eliasson uses a mathematical approach to design his elaborate artworks. In Your Sound Galaxy, there are a series of geometric figures hanging overhead like a rotating universe of celestial black jewels. Each with its own LED light in it, the structures look like multi-surfaced lamps with an unusually thin source of light emitted only through the fine contours of each three-dimensional shape, proving to be a very complicated installation.

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July 9, 2012

Delightful Multi-Hoop Basketball Tree

This takes playing HORSE to a whole new level! French architecture firm a/LTA has designed the perfect urban park fixture in Nantes, France for kids of all ages and sizes! The basketball tree not only gives kids a greater chance of finding an empty hoop, but it also allows them to have a fair shot at making a basket.

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June 22, 2012

Magnificently Moving Lamps Inspired by Flowers and Bees

If you were at this year's Luminale, an architecture and design festival held in Frankfurt, Germany, you may have witnessed, first-hand, some of the most beautiful lighting fixtures we've ever seen. Studio Drift's exhibition was the first time they showed three major lighting concepts together – Flylight, Shylight and Fragile Future. You'll have to watch the video, below, to really appreciate how they've combined nature and technology to create something almost otherworldly.

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June 19, 2012

Awesome Pictogram Rock Posters

Ready to test your Rock n' Roll knowledge? Illustrator Viktor Hertz is back with a fun new series called Pictogram Rock Posters. His most ambitious work to date, this set crams in a total of 234 song pictograms into 8 different posters. Hertz has been working on this personal project for the last five months. The artists and bands he chose include The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.

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