Inorganic Flora by Macoto Murayama
Botanist and designer Macoto Murayama has created “Inorganic Flora,” a collection of intricate blueprints of numerous flowers. Murayama buys different flowers from...
Hanoi Lotus Centre by DeciBel
The new Hanoi Lotus Centre harnesses an existing investment by the City in the creation of a major new stormwater mitigation lake and utilises this infrastructural investment as the foundation for an iconic public place celebrating the Lotus, Vietnam’s National Flower. The Hanoi Lotus draws inspiration from Vietnam’s n...
The Epoch by Ash Thorp
The Epoch print series captures a moment in my creative journey which focuses on Ash Thorp`s fascination with geometry, design, and theology. It is a personal exploration of the world around the artist, fused with his own internal mental dialogue.
Kinetic Drawings by Heather Hansen
Using only motion and charcoal, Heather Hansen is expressing herself through dance creating stunning forms and patterns. The artist from New-Orleans has developed her kinetic drawing technique while setting her body in the sand of a beach. The beauty of her works if reflected by the synergy of the two combined arts: da...
BioLogical By MIT Media Lab
Initiated from MIT Media Lab, BioLogic is the attempt to program living organism and invent responsive and transformable interfaces of the future. Nature has engineered its own actuators, as well as the efficient material composition, geometry and structure to utilize its actuators and achieve functional transformation...
Ceramics by Sabri Ben-Achour
Like traditional Japanese ceramists, Ben-Achour strives to create mostly functional pottery in earth tones and earth textures with a sort of calculated simplicity, aiming to capture the organic nature of the clay and other materials. His quietly beautiful works include pod and shell-shaped stoneware pieces; rounded Rak...
Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram
Viruses are conventionally considered to be dangerous, eerie and scary enough to stay away from them for the sake of our own health, but Luke Jerram does not see them as such. Since 2004, Jerram has been turning viruses and other pathogens into stunning glass sculptures that are just as eerie as they are beautiful as p...
The Diatomist by Matthew Killip
The Diatomist is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when view...
Paper Play by Maud Vantours
Created by designer ‘Istvan’ of Chaotic Atmosphere, these computer generated insects are a beautiful exercise in fictional biology, code, and digital illustration. The collection of nearly 100 organisms with day/night variations is titled Biotop from Polygonia was made in Cinema 4D using random values within parameters...
Natural Processes by Julius Horsthuis
Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems – the pictures of Chaos. Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensi...
Crystal Birth by Emanuele Fornasier
Italian student Emanuele Fornasier is documenting his exceptional chemistry project where he is exploring chemical reactions and metal structures. Crystal Birth is a timelapse video of 18 electrocrystallizations involving electrical current to pass through a metal dipped into a chemical solution creating a reaction whe...
Eden Project by Grimshaw
The word 'biomimicry' describes the process of humans borrowing designs and systems from nature to create their own technology. Jolyon Brewis of Grimshaw Architects did exactly that when he based the architecture of our Core education centre on the growth blueprint of plants. He used opposing spirals mathematically bas...
Polyscapes by James Pike
Created by designer ‘Istvan’ of Chaotic Atmosphere, these computer generated insects are a beautiful exercise in fictional biology, code, and digital illustration. The collection of nearly 100 organisms with day/night variations is titled Biotop from Polygonia was made in Cinema 4D using random values within parameters...
Philographics by Studio Careras
Sometimes with colours and geometric shapes we can formulate ideas that are explained in thousands of words. Merging graphics and philosophy in a design-conscious hybrid simply called Philography, London-based Genís Carreras has paired complicated concepts with uncomplicated shapes to create a cutting edge philosophy d...
Constructive Interference by Hypersonic
Constructive Interference is a sculpture designed to engage members of the Oregon State University in active learning, by presenting a mystery to their senses: a static object that appears, impossibly, to be moving.The sculpture is a metaphor for how we exchange knowledge, how synthesis of apparently different fields wi...
Not Art by Warsheh
The Jordan-based designers, who go by the collective name Warsheh, strip art history’s greatest hits down to their leading characters, splicing up the remaining imagery based on the Golden Ratio. For anyone who needs a refresher, the golden ratio (also known as the divine proportion) is a number that can be found when...
Flux by Dieter Pilger
Flux is a kinetic 3D printed mezmerizing physical sculpture created by dieter Pilger in collaboration with Janno Ströcker and Frederik Scheve. While the outer body zoetrope design was done using the fibonacci sequence and the inner body is illuminated by a COB Led, the artists have put the sculpture in motion through a...
2D/3D by Yizi Zheng
2D/3D is a set of posters, each containing a three dimensional surface, but built from a single sheet of paper. They explore the notion that while such a surface can be viewed from...
Reflection from Above by Donna Dotan
The New York architectural photographer Donna Dotan "mild obsession" with symmetry is reflected through her series Reflection From Above which capture the energy that goes on in the city that never sleeps. The stunning photos—captured while looking down from skyscraper windows—offer a refracted glimpse of the city that...
The Iterative Method by Leonardo Betti
Digital artist Leonardoworks, a.k.a Leonardo Betti believes math and physics could explain human life, perception, and “even the feelings we can not quantify, like love, that goes beyond time and space dimensions.” In a colorful algorithmic experiment, he delves into computational mathematics, using the iterative metho...
Keplar Series by Tallmadge Doyle
In an effort to determine the distances between planets in our solar system, the Renaissance astronomers paved the way for the scientific revolution by questioning the existing systems and dogmas of the time, gradually laying the foundation for the modern concept of the universe. The great German astronomer Johannes Ke...
Al Bahar Towers by Aedas
Inspired by the traditional Arabic mashrabiya (wooden lattice screens, carved to some geometric design that have filled the windows of traditional Arabic architecture since the 14th century), Aedas has developed a unique skin for steel-frame skyscrapers. It will reduce interior heat gains caused by sunlight by around 5...
The Fascinating World of Fungi
You probably didn't know mushrooms could be used to construct buildings and cure diseases. Mushrooms are being tested in innovative and imaginative ways to help society. Engineers, medical researchers, and designers are utilizing the natural abilities of various fungi for antibiotics, building materials, water filtrati...
Mosques of Iran by Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji
Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji has captured the world’s attention with his extraordinary photographs revealing the inner beauty of Iran’s mosques. The 24-year-old physics student from Babol in northern Iran taught himself the art of photography through online tutorials and books, and has shown himself to be something of a...
Sisyphus Table by Bruce Shapiro
Artist Bruce Shapiro worked in designing kinetic sculptures for the last 20 years. Shapiro worked on motion-control technology to find a way to combine science with his art. Finally, he built CNC art tools and designed the Sisyphus, a completely functional coffee table. Shapiro describes the Sisyphus system as an instr...