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Printers doing cool things
I love the idea of ordinary tools being used for extraordinary purposes. Here’s an example. Linked printers, synced up, making pretty pictures. Lovely. By Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth.
BBC’s eerie Life and Fate trail
This excellent little animation was created by Daniel Binns for BBC Radio 4′s dramatisation of Life and Fate. Daniel has produced some other real nice films, including this one about control and panic.
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Tagged animation, art, bbc radio 4, daniel biins, design, life and fate, radio play
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Fancy French rail advert
Here’s a pretty advert for Réseau Ferré de France, the firm that maintains France’s rail network. Nice use of the tilt-shift effect, which everyone still loves. Network Rail are now asking the government for ‘giant hand’ funding.
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Tagged art, design, network rail, Réseau Ferré de France, tilt-shift video, video
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The mini motorway project
You know what it’s like looking out of a plane window at all the little buildings, cars and roads below. Well, US artist Chris Burden creates a similar experience with Metropolis II. Hundreds of toy cars navigate their way around … Continue reading
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Tagged art, chris burden, design, hot wheels, kinetic sculpture, la, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, metropolis II
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Camera lens cross section
Ever wondered what goes on inside a camera lens? Well, turns out it’s rather a lot. This lens was sliced in half by some camera students as part of a graduation project. For the geeks out there, it’s a Leica … Continue reading
Cool 3D building projection
You may have seen some of these large-scale 3D building projections before, but this one is really rather impressive. The German designers say the aim was to ‘break through the fabric of the building’.
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Tagged 3d, architecture, art, augmented, design, germany, projection
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An introduction to genetics
I was always quite into science at school (even if I didn’t understand most of it), so this little genetics explainer caught my eye. Maybe if cool animations like this had existed when I was young I might have learned … Continue reading
Architects and projections
Most architects build little models of their work for clients and tenders. These guys included some rather lovely projection mapping on their proposal for residential flats in Turkey.
NoteSlate tablet causes stir
The NoteSlate is a 13″ digital tablet for drawing and writing and it’s generating a lot of buzz online. The big question though, is whether it’s real. It’ll reportedly cost $99 and go on sale in June. (Via Kottke)
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Tagged design, gadget, kottke, noteslate, slate, tablet, tech
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The musical subway map
A rather clever conductor has created the video below which turns the NY subway map into a stringed instrument. The animation is based on a realtime MTA schedule, mapping trains that departed in the last minute, gradually speeding up to … Continue reading