Recompose is a new system for manipulation of an actuated surface. By collectively utilizing the body as a tool for direct manipulation alongside gestural input for functional manipulation, they show how a user is afforded unprecedented control over an actuated surface. It was developed by Matt Blackshaw, David Lákatos, Anthony Devincenzi, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii from MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group. They describe a number of interaction techniques exploring the shared space of direct and gestural input, demonstrating how their combined use can greatly enhance creation and manipulation beyond unaided human capability. Check out the video below. via media.mit.edu/recompose
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Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen uses rapid prototyping for her Escapism couture collection which just debuted during the haute couture week in Paris S/S 2011. The collection is a collaboration between Iris van Herpen and architect Daniel Wildrig and is produced by .MGX by Materialise. Escapism is about the addiction of constantly escaping reality by digital entertainment, something that is a big part of everybody’s world today.
Iris van Herpen’s collection expresses her own concept of the ‘escapism’ – “something viewed as the exaggerations and excesses that result of the digital age, and are eagerly swallowed by the public in general. It’s all about how people find their own ways to reject reality through entertainment addictions.” Iris presents a future that is “a mix of nature blended with technology, her imaginary hereafter is not the usual space age that we see as our future.” The whole collection is about “mixing craftsmanship, unsung old forgotten techniques and innovation involving the procedure of rapid prototyping. The ability of melting both the past and the future of fashion together into something new is a recurrent theme.” via i.materialise blog
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life will kill you is a temporary installation for the Revolve Clothing showroom in west hollywood. To stand in contrast to the high-fashion clothing of the boutique, an everyday industrial material, the zip tie, is aggregated to create a floating volume that nestles below an existing soffit. The design is intended to explore the edge between aggression and elegance through material sensibility, overall form, and visual effect.
The cloud-like volume is created by a double-sided surface composed of over 100,000 zip ties. The exterior surface of the volume is an aggregation of longer, wider white zip ties while the interior is comprised of shorter and finer colored zip ties. the resulting bulging form offers ever-changing glimpses of blurred yet vivid color combinations as the zip ties layer on top of one another in the predominantly black and white store interior.
Life will kill you is a temporary installation for the Revolve Clothing showroom in west hollywood by LA based architects Molly Hunker and Gregory Corso. To stand in contrast to the high-fashion clothing of the boutique, an everyday industrial material, the zip tie, is aggregated to create a floating volume that nestles below an existing soffit. The design is intended to explore the edge between aggression and elegance through material sensibility, overall form, and visual effect. The cloud-like volume is created by a double-sided surface composed of over 100,000 zip ties. The exterior surface of the volume is an aggregation of longer, wider white zip ties while the interior is comprised of shorter and finer colored zip ties. the resulting bulging form offers ever-changing glimpses of blurred yet vivid color combinations as the zip ties layer on top of one another in the predominantly black and white store interior. via Molly Hunker and Everyone Should Follow Everything I Follow*
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The Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition honors the world’s most extraordinary microscope images of life science subjects captured through light microscopes, using any magnification, any illumination technique and any brand of equipment. The thousands of images that people have shared with the competition over the years reflect some of the most exciting work going on in research today, work that can help shed light on the living universe and ultimately save lives. We look at BioScapes and these beautiful images as sources of education and inspiration to us and the world. via Olympus BioScapes
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Elod Beregszazi is a London based paper artist-engineer that creates some amazing sculptures by cutting, folding, tearing and embossing paper in a field he calls Popupology. You can find more of his work on his flickr page. via triangulation
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