The L.A. Summer Residency at Otis College of Art and Design (June 4-25, 2017) offers an opportunity for artists and designers to work side-by-side in an immersive three-week residency within the vibrant art and design community of Los Angeles. Continue reading
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From The Sketchbook of a World War 2 Soldier
Victor A. Lundy is best known for his modernist architecture — the imposing rectangles of the United States Tax Court Building in Washington, D.C., the angular shapes of the Church of the Resurrection Harlem in New York City Continue reading
Mysterious and Low-Light Photography
Camillo Longo is a talented photographer and designer, who was born and raised in the Antelope Valley and currently based in Los Angeles, California. Continue reading
300-Year-Old College Library in Dublin Has Over 200,000 Books
When you travel abroad you don’t usually go for the college libraries. But if you’re visiting Dublin you totally should.
There, in city’s Trinity College you can find the biggest library in the country. Built between 1712 and 1732 the main chamber is almost 65 meters (213ft) long and houses over 200,000 books. Continue reading
Exbury Egg
Artist, Stephen Turner, who specialises in long term artistic explorations of environmental settings, has worked with the designers to create the Egg which he will now use as a ‘residency’, floating in the Beaulieu Estuary for a year, to examine the changing patterns of its marine ecology. He will produce artworks inspired by his surroundings to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the places like the Estuary. Continue reading
BioLogic, A Shape-Changing Fabric That Vents When You Sweat
Teams from MIT Media Lab and the Royal College of Art have used bacteria to design a “bio-skin” fabric that peels back in reaction to sweat and humidity
Clothes created from the BioLogic fabric have vents that open in response to sweat
Innovator: Hiroshi Ishii
Age: 60
Title: Professor and associate director of MIT Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research group Continue reading
What Makes a Good Life?
What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life? If you were going to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy? There was a recent survey of millennialsasking them what their most important life goals were, and over 80 percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich. And another 50 percent of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous.