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Aug 4, 20080

Louis Vuitton X UN Studio

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Flagship store Louis Vuitton, Japan

The design for the 10 storey (54 meter tall) flagship Louis Vuitton store in Japan aims to establish an architectural equivalent of the identity of Louis Vuitton in which classical and modern qualities are blended, reinforcing each other. The design inspires the visitor with a feeling of being in the House of Louis Vuitton by celebrating the qualities that make up the essence of the company, its products, its history and its future. read more

Jul 30, 20080

Modelers are dead! Long live the Modeler!

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Script this, Computational that, Algorithmic this… bla bla bla!

Yutaka Igarashi’s work goes back to a Joseph Kosinski media course reference @ Columbia in the early 00’s. It may be that I am coming down from that “Oh So Sweet” sugar high that a nice script can give you or the frustration w/ the current crop of cad jockeys that can not model the simplest forms. Either way, Igarashi’s work is a much needed inspirational stopping point that will deliver you into a perverse world of hyper detailed vehicles and leave us questioning their true end use. read more

Jul 28, 20080

Welcome Center by Till Schweizer

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The Welcome Center, designed by Till Schweizer, is situated at a crucial point of the JinHua Architectur Park.

The pavilion overlooks at a significant bend of the river bank, therefore it marks the turning point in the overall direction and perception while entering or leaving the park. read more

Jul 25, 20080

Whales, Dolphins Inspire Wind Turbine Tech

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Whales’ and dolphins’ speed and agility are wondrous to behold — finely tuned by evolution for efficiency and maneuverability in the water. Now researchers are working to translate these animals’ natural innovations into manmade technologies on land, air and sea.Frank Fish of West Chester University in Pennsylvania began to study the humpback whale fin while on vacation in Boston in the early 1980s, where he saw a statue of a humpback whale in a shop in Quincy Market. He assumed it was sculpted incorrectly, because the figure showed bumps along the front edge of the flipper. read more

Jul 24, 20080

Pulse by Berlin-based artist Markus Kison

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Pulse is a live visualization project by Berlin-based artist Markus Kison. It’s based around a shapeshifting, heart-like object that reacts to the emotions expressed by the authors of private weblogs on blogger.com. A program aggregates words in blogs’ text and scans for synonyms that correlate with the emotional concepts in Robert Plutchik’s three-dimensional circumplex model describing the psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. The more one a the emotions is represented, the more corresponding portion of the organism is mechanically activated. Blurring the lines between art and technology, Pulse uses data to create the very organic visualization. read more