Insanely Complex Ceramics Made By Hand, Not 3-D Printer
Irish artist Nuala O’Donovan draws on patterns found in nature to create impossibly complex abstract sculptures. And she makes them using something else found in nature: her own two hands.
Nendo’s Wondrous Shelf Is A Kaleidoscope That Holds Books
The Japanese wiz kids are at it again, with a bookshelf that could out-op art Bridget Riley.
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A World Map That Doubles As A Bio Of Its Creator
Carlos Romo Melgar’s “Cosmographies” makes a detailed map of his adopted home of Madrid, but the landmarks are his own.
Wanted: Toy Container Ships That Are Impossibly Cool
Papa Foxtrot renders three of the world's largest transport ships in brilliant, modern detail.
A Logotype In Beirut Bridges The Gap Between East And West
Foreign businesses in the Middle East could learn a lot from Mary Choueiter, who distorted both Latin and Arabic alphabets to create beautiful hybrid signage for a bilingual arts center in Lebanon.
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A Data Viz Project That Visualizes A Family History Of Disease
Katie Lewis’s “201 Days” integrates two movements--art as documentation and art as healing--while referencing acupuncture and Edward Tufte.
MIT’s Place Pulse: A “Hot Or Not” For Cities, To Fix Broken Blocks
A website uses crowd-sourcing to convert people’s perceptions of streets into a quantitative benchmark for measuring fuzzy qualities like how safe, rich, and unique a city feels.
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Infographic Of The Day: How The Virginia Earthquake Spread On Twitter
We've already seen that Twitter can be a useful predictor of stock market swings, a movie's box-office sales, and even outbreaks of swine flu.
Stanford Startup Lets Immigrants Swap Recipes With Foodies
A new kind of cooking school gives immigrants new jobs, and an avenue for sharing their culture.
