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...
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...
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...
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...
All you can feel by Sarah Schoenfeld
German artist Sarah Schönfeld’s - All You Can Feel is a visualization of legal and illegal drugs, now published in a leather-bound volume that functions as a psychedelic Rx field guide. To produce these images, Schönfeld – whose interest in chemicals developed while working at one of Berlin’s most notorious night clubs...
Science of Origami By Robert J. Lang
The intersections between origami, mathematics, and science occur at many levels and include many fields of the latter. Origami, like music, also permits both composition and performance as expressions of the art. Over the past 40 years, Robert J Lang has developed nearly 600 original origami compositions, and about a...
Millefiori by Fabian Oefner
Captured by Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner in his project Millefiori, the iron particles start to rearrange, forming black channels and separating the watercolours from the ferrofluid, creating these technicolour structures that look like psychedelic planets or trippy cells under a microscope. This is just one projec...
Kinetic Light Sculptures by Paul Friedlander
Paul Friedlander is both a physicist and a light sculptor, using applied sciences to create art that’s both beautiful and interactive. He constructs...
Living Food By Minsu Kim
A set of future dining experiences were designed where food behaves like a living creature entertaining us through an empathetic connection. Kim’s animated entrées are not...
Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haecke
Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) is a book of lithographic and autotype prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and...
Chocolatexture by Oki Sato
“There are many factors that determine a chocolate’s taste,” says Sato, referring to factors like the origin of cocoa, the percentage used, and the various...
Drawings of a Mathematical Savant by Jason Padgett
One of the few people worldwide diagnosed as an "Acquired Savant", Jason Padgett was attacked in 2002 savagely by two men outside a karaoke bar, leaving him with a severe concussion and...
Ars Qubica by Cristóbal Vila
The approach of Cristóbal Vila in the 3D animated short film Ars Qubica is to convey the presence of geometry and mathematics in art. This figure of a cube as a...