Shape-Shifting Furniture: Interactive 3D Surfaces from MIT
The Tangible Media Group from MIT has developed an approach to responsive design in physical space that is both conceptual and plausible, futuristic yet already a reality. Displaying ...
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Blossoming Technology: World’s First Inflatable 3D Print
3D printers are now making it possible to quickly and economically 'print' everything from haute couture to full-scale architecture, medical prostheses to cars. Now, the technology has advanced ...
Deserted Elevator Shaft Hides Single-Room Street Museum
Like so many secret spaces of New York City, this one-room exhibit space (hidden inside an abandoned elevator) is not exactly on the beaten path. This pop-up project is naturally ...
Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion
Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...
Doing it Wrong: Funny Photo-Edited Urban Improbabilities
It would be entirely right and wrong at the same time to call this body of work realistic. On the one hand, the results look like pictures (which form the basis of these manipulations) - on the ...
Factory to Self-Fabrication: 14 3D-Printed Design Objects
The world of desktop 3D printing has made factory-style fabrication possibilities available to artists and designers, who turn digital models into three-dimensional solid objects with successive ...
3D-Printing Pen: Draw Sculptures with this Magical Marker
2D or 3D? Drawing or sculpture? These dichotomies break down as you build up a physical model using a traditionally two-dimensional technique, tracing lines in the air that harden in real time to ...
Mundane Music: The Sonification of Everyday Things
Exploring the world through sound is not limited to simply listening to the audio that's automatically produced by the people, nature and objects that surround us each day. For designer Dennis P. ...
Material Worlds: All Their Possessions in Just One Picture
After a recent look at urban Europeans posing with all they own, this potent look at rural Asian families and their worldly possessions shows stark contrasts but surprising similarities as ...
All You Own: Can You Fit Your World into One Photograph?
Many of us possess so much stuff it can be hard to quantify what lurks between all of our cupboards, closets, drawers and more. One Swedish photographer set out to document just how many (or few) ...
