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This Self-Stabilizing Boat's Deck Is Always Flat, Even in Rough Waters
The skipper spotted a passenger ferry a few hundred yards ahead of us and decided we could catch up. He piled on the throttle, speeding through the San Francisco Bay. The afternoon wasn’t windy and the water was calm, so Steve Shonk, lead engineer and test boat captain for Velodyne Marine, was intent on finding waves where he could get them. The wake from the ferry was his best bet.
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Kevin Van Aelst
Artist Kevin Van Aelst was born in Elmira, New York, raised in central Pennsylvania, and is now based in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University in 2002 and an M.F.A. in photography from the Hartford Art School in 2005. Kevin has taught photography courses at the Hartford Art School, Middlesex Community College, Quinnipiac University, and currently at the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Urban Algae Farm Gobbles Up Highway Air Pollution
A French and Dutch design firm has come up with an elegantly simple way to harness the wonderful power of nature in order to clean up the environment: an algae farm suspended over a small stretch of highway in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Extinct.ly | Serpentine Galleries
EXTINCT.LY is a new digital platform created to host the work of artists, writers, speculative designers and programmers exploring the subject of extinction.
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Dyslexie typeface by Christian Boer
A typeface created specifically for dyslexic people by Dutch designer Christian Boer is on show at this year's Istanbul Design Biennial.
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Mercedes revolutionises trucking with self-driving semi
The latest truck concept from Mercedes-Benz doesn't look like anything crazy. Its design is a bit unusual, and it's loaded up with LEDs instead of headlights and cameras instead of side mirrors. But those modest tweaks to conventional design hide the fact that this is a serious bid to revolutionize the trucking industry. That's because the "Future Truck 2025″ drives itself. And while it's a prototype, Mercedes is serious about spending the next decade getting it-and us-ready for commercial use.
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Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage by enrique pelaez
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Only Nails, Always Different: Artist John Bisbee's Life of Sculpting with Nails
While in college, artist John Bisbee was scavaging in an abandoned house looking for items to incorporate into a series of found-object sculptures when he kicked over a bucket of old rusty nails. To his astonishment, the nails had fused together into a bucket-shaped hunk of metal
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The Termite and the Architect
In 1991, the multinational Old Mutual investment group approached the Zimbabwean architect Mick Pearce with an audacious assignment. The group wished to construct a retail and office complex called the Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe’s capital city of Harare that, at 55,000 square meters, would be the country’s largest commercial building. What Old Mutual didn’t wish to do was pay the high cost of air-conditioning such a massive space.
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The Bendy, Bold Logo for Cornell's New NYC Tech Campus
Designing a clear and impactful visual identity for one school is hard enough; and if that school happens to have two other institutions folded into it? Yeah, good luck with that logo. Cornell Tech is the engineering and technology-focused graduate school of Cornell University, but it’s not just that. It’s also a partner to Israel’s Technion University, and if you ask many of the faculty and students, they’ll tell you it’s a partner to New York City, too. That’s a lot of people to please.
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Self-Taught Woodworker Turns Old Skateboards Into Beautiful Sculptures
Haroshi is a Japanese skateboarder and self-taught woodworker, who is known for his large sculptures made from skateboard decks. Haroshi selects and stacks the skateboards, then hand carves, paints, and polishes them into a veneered finish. As the skateboard decks are made of layers of processed wood, the final sculptures appear to have striped surfaces.
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15 innovative food and drink packaging designs
If you don't think about what kind of box your spaghetti comes in, you should think again. The imaginative power of designers who have invested their talent in the field of brand packaging spans continents and cuisines. Even better, they're committing to a cause we can all support: eating food that looks pretty.
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Unique Creative Rings - kooliolife
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The Sony Logo That Never Was
In 1981, Sony asked the public to redesign their logo. Then it realized it was a huge mistake.
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Novelty Business Cards
Tim acquires many business cards in the course of meeting people at toy fairs and puzzle parties. Many of these he keeps since they have useful contact details. However some of the business cards he receives are so creative and so wonderful that they get a place in Tim's toy collection!
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Strange Case of the Melting House: Alex Chinneck's Mind-Bending Buildings
Houses that melt, float and flip upside down? Alex Chinneck's playful architecture is made for Instagram.
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Self-Taught Singaporean Artist Creates Hyper-Realistic Drawings On Wooden Boards
Ivan Hoo, a talented hyper-realistic artist is back with more unbelievably realistic works of art drawn on simple boards of wood. Hoo uses colored pencils, pastels and ink to create his realistic artwork. He works on boards of wood, which give the background a unique texture.
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Best Anime Character Designs #2
There are many character designs that I’m ecstatic about and I cannot wait for them to appear on-screen.
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Who’s Behind the E-paper FES Watch?
As it seeks to differentiate itself in a competitive market, Sony is developing watches and bow ties using electronic paper. A Sony spokesman said the Japanese electronics giant has a project in development called “Fashion Entertainments,” where it is studying how electronic paper can be used to make fashion products.
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The History of Non-Art: Part 1
The most groundbreaking art of the 20th century is called avant-garde. But perhaps these pioneering artists were not so pioneering after all. The artistic avant-garde did not break with established genres and traditions so much as it systematically established genres and tradition. Much of what is considered “radical,” “innovative” and “original” about Duchamp and the artistic avant-garde was brought into existence by people who were not visual artists.
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