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Emergent Architecture

Published 14 years ago by materia | no responses

Founded in 1999 by Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT is dedicated to research as well as built work at many scales. EMERGENT is a platform for experimentation, dedicated to the transfer of techniques, logics, and sensibilities from ...

Kaarsrecht by Pascal Smelik

Published 14 years ago by materia | no responses

Dutch graduate designer Pascal Smelik has made an aluminium table cast from hot wax poured into cold water. Smelik squirts hot candle wax into water using a large syringe, then drains the water and fills ...

Ink calender

Published 14 years ago by materia | no responses

Spanish designer Oscar Diaz, based in London, has designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date. Each month, a bottle of coloured ink spreads across a ...

Humpback whales inspire next generation wind turbine technology

Published 14 years ago by materia | one response

Scientists were inspired by a unique series of bumps called tubercles on the fins of humpback whales that enable the 45-foot animal to better maneuver when capturing food. Tubercles affect the flow of air over ...

Forms by storms

Published 14 years ago by materia | no responses

German designer Johannes Hemann generates forms by storms, not the destructive forces of the winds, but energy-generating, as they can be seen in sand dunes or snow drift. an interference – plates, glasses, bottle and ...

Nanoholes help make optical devices

Published 14 years ago by materia | no responses

A photosensitive solid-liquid compound made by filling nanoholes in aluminium oxide or polymer films with a solution of dye could be used to make efficient rewriteable recording media and all-optical switches. The device works by ...