Jaune, artiste de rue et interventionniste urbain, peint des ouvriers et des travailleurs du service publiques dans les rues de Bruxelles depuis 2011. L’artiste, un ancien travailleur du service publique lui-meme, met en evidence ce metier rarement remarqué dans son street art par des personnages décalés et des scénarios amusants. Suivez le sur Instagram.
Description The User Experience Designer will help support ASHA’s mission and vision by ensuring that its digital products are developed from a user-centric design perspective. The individual in this position will work collaboratively with a broad range of ASHA staff and consultants to envision and design user experiences that meet the needs of ASHA members and the public.
296 unclaimed artworks from the Nazi occupation of France remain in the Louvre’s current collection. Some 31 of them have now found a place on the historic museum’s walls—for a reason. The Louvre hopes that relatives of the previous owners will come……
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After the tremendous demand for the “NASA Graphics Standards Manual” book (released in 2015) come three limited edition prints taken from those very guidelines, done in collaboration with Best Made Co. Printed on Stochastic Screen Press matte paper……
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This design was inspired by the fascinating geometric pattern created by clustered sunflower seeds. The stretched version of a Fibonacci spiral, its perfectly perforated, sculptural structure creates a stunning visual whether or not the light is activated. When the light is switched on, however, it creates a breathtaking silhouette of light and shadows cast on surrounding walls. Most interesting of all, its made entirely of concrete! In ceiling, table, floor and sconce versions, there’s a Helia for a myriad of different rooms types.
Designer: Dror Kaspi of Ardoma Studio
Just when I was feeling a little scootered out, the Eagle rider came rolling on to my screen! It’s almost too cute for words… but somehow also edgy and chic?! That oversized front tire and itty bitty back tire deliver a cool, contrasting aesthetic but they’re also functional as the compact back tire fits into the frame when folded. Its minimalistic, curvilinear frame collapses and nests snuggly together so you can throw it over a shoulder or drag it behind you as you switch between transportation modes during your commute. DO want!
Designer: Ignas Survila of Citybirds
La photographe Polonaise Małgorzata Sajur se sert d’un miroir pour nous présenter dans ses photographies, sa vision du monde. Une partie de cette série en cours, intitulée « I look at myself », est profondément introspective, tandis que « I look at the world » se veut une fenêtre sur le monde. Un très beau travail, à retrouver sur Behance.
Ben Fearnley rend l’art bien plus connecté en fusionnant les codes de l’art classique et du monde digital, dans sa superbe série « Sculptmojis ». Composée en CGI, cet anachronisme met en scène des bustes inspirés de la période classique, avec des emojis comme ceux que nous utilisons couramment. Très bien composée et finalisée, sa série paraît issue d’un réel musée bien physique, comme les plus pures sculptures de marbres de la Grèce antique. Un travail amusant et fascinant, à retrouver sur Behance et sur Instagram
MIT has taken the first steps towards turning plants into functional lighting by embedding the firefly enzyme in the leaves of a watercress plant.
By introducing specialised nanoparticles into leaves, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created plants that can glow for nearly four hours.
It is a breakthrough that the university claims could allow house plants to be used as low-intensity indoor lighting and trees to act as self-powered streetlights.
Method could be used on any plant
To create the glow, the plants were impregnated with a solution that combines luciferase – the enzyme that gives fireflies their glow – which reacted within the plant’s leaves.
The result is a dim light that lasts for around three and a half hours. The method can be used on any type of plant, and has so far, been tested on arugula, kale, and spinach, in addition to watercress.
Currently a 10-centimetre long glowing watercress seedling can only emit about one-thousandth of the amount of light needed to read by. However, the engineers working on the university’s plant nanobionics programme believe that with further optimisation, glowing plants could function as light fixtures bright enough to illuminate a workspace.
Vision for plants that work “as a desk lamp”
“The vision is to make a plant that will function as a desk lamp – a lamp that you don’t have to plug in,” said Michael Strano, senior author of the study and Carbon P Dubbs professor of chemical engineering at MIT.
“The light is ultimately powered by the energy metabolism of the plant itself,” he added.
“Plants can self-repair, they have their own energy, and they are already adapted to the outdoor environment. We think this is an idea whose time has come. It’s a perfect problem for plant nanobionics.”
MIT is now working to further optimise and fine tune the concentration and release rates of the components, to further boost the brightness and duration of the light.
In the future, the researchers also hope to develop a way to paint or spray the nanoparticles onto plant leaves, which could make it possible to transform trees and other large plants into light sources.
“Our target is to perform one treatment when the plant is a seedling or a mature plant, and have it last for the lifetime of the plant,” Strano said. “Our work very seriously opens up the doorway to street lamps that are nothing but treated trees, and to indirect lighting around homes.”
By adding nanoparticles carrying a luciferase inhibitor, the researchers believe it will be possible to turn the light off. This could lead to the creation of plants that can respond to environmental conditions such as sunlight, and stop emitting light.
Plants can also be engineered to detect explosives
The university’s plant nanobionics group is also investigating other ways plants can be engineered to replace functions currently performed by electrical devices.
Funded by the US Department of Energy the group is embedding plants with different types of nanoparticles to develop plants that can detect explosives and plants that can monitor drought conditions.
Back in 2014, Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde made the same prediction as the MIT engineers when he told Dezeen that in the future glowing trees could be used “instead of street lighting”.
At the time, the designer was exploring ways of using bio-luminescent bacteria found in jellyfish and mushrooms to create glow-in-the-dark vegetation.
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Dutch firm MVRDV has unveiled plans for an office block with an interactive mirrored facade in the city of Esslingen in southern Germany.
Dubbed the “crystal rock” by the Rotterdam architecture firm, the facade of the Milestone building will be formed from fritted glass containing photovoltaic cells that will reflect back images of the city and its surrounding landscape.
Extruded and indented blocks on the square grid of the facade will give the building a 3D profile that the architects describe as a “pixelated map”.
Passersby will be able to use their phones to interact with the facade, which will be printed with QR codes that reveal information about the city.
“Each pixel carries different information, featuring the stories of the city and its inhabitants. Accompanied by a smartphone app one can discover its richness, creating the public library of the town,” MVRDV explained.
A gap through the middle of the building will frame a view of the rest of the city, while outdoor stairs and terraces will give those who work inside it a chance to enjoy the views too.
At ground level the new block will open out on to a public square and house a restaurant, cafe and meeting areas. Offices will be located on the floors above, and in total the Milestone will contain 6,500 square metres of floorspace.
Together with German developer RVI, MVRDV planned the Milestone, also known as Block E, as the centre of a new district on the site of a former freight depot that will eventually include housing, retail and a university. The architects hope the Milestone will serve as a “beacon” for residents.
The blocky outline of the proposed building is similar to another MVRDV project planned for Russia. Named the Silhouette, the Moscow tower block will have a red ceramic facade and will stand as a “symbolic gateway” to the city.
The Dutch firm, which was founded by Van Rijs, Winy Maas and Nathalie de Vries, made ripples recently with their eye-catching public library in the Chinese city of Tianjin.
Shaped like a giant eyeball, the library featured wraparound contour shelves, although due to time constraints the local team had to abandon planned access rooms, leaving the top-most shelves unreachable. Improvising, the shelves were replaced by aluminium panels printed to look like books.
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