Hourglass Lamp: Grid-Free LED Powered by Falling Sand
Traditional timepiece meets inventive illumination in this human-powered hourglass lamp that draws its energy elegantly from grains of falling sand. Designed by Danielle Trofe, each ...
Tag: Sand
The Fallen: 9000 Figures Hand-Drawn in the Sand for D-Day
To commemorate those fallen on D-Day in France - civilians, Axis and Allies alike - a pair of sand artists used stencils and solicited volunteers to create a highly temporary art installation, ...
Digital Grotesque: Intricate Full-Scale 3D Printed Room
Stacked sections of intricate 3D-printed columns of the most baroque nature imaginable make up a cube-shaped, full-scale room. Designers Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger made 'Digital ...
Sandcastle Suburbs: Beach Buildings Form Fragile Sprawl
If castles of sand are ordinarily creative (if childish) works of artistic expression, then these are their opposite - boring and relentless repetition of identical houses inspired by postwar ...
Sound in Sand: Complex Visualizations of Audio Frequencies
Grains of sand arrange themselves into complex geometric patterns according to audio frequencies in these fascinating resonance experiments by Youtube user Brusspup. The sand is sprinkled onto a ...
Tag Before the Tide: Temporary 3D Sand Graffiti by DAIM
Artist Mirko Reisser has long developed a highly personalized (and profoundly cool) approach to making two-dimensional tags appear three-dimensional on surfaces, but in this unusual project, he ...
Möbius Strip: Plans to Build World’s First 3D-Printed House
An unlikely and unique collaboration is in the works between an architect, an inventor and a mathematician-plus-artist to produce a first-of-its-kind printed house in a single shot using ...
Beyond Domes: 36 Photos of Burning Man Building Types
It would be a mistake to characterize Burning Man as merely a festival in the desert. For one week a year, an entire built environment (dubbed Black Rock City) for tens of thousands of residents ...
37 Detailed Sand Sculptures that Make Your Castle Look Sad
A small shovel and a pail for sand are the typical beach goer's adventure kit, but some people take their sand castles a bit more seriously. With ladders, and teams of workers, sand sculptors ...
