Fabric, Fire, And Coincidence Form Glass

A new formation by destruction has surfaced in Hannover, Germany by furniture designer Fabio Vogel.

‘105 Ltr Formen’ is a project producing vases a new way – hot glass, fireproof fabric, and coincidence.

Creative Patterns with Folded Paper

Gunjan Aylawadi‘s creations look like fabric but are in fact carried out with paper that is folded and meticulously attached with threads. This artist who grew up in India before moving to Australia explores craft traditions from any country in order to draw her inspiration and give life to pretty and complex mosaics in which motives wave with grace.

The Floating Piers

The floating piers designed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a system of 220,000 high-density poly-ethylene cubes, covering 100,000 square meter, in an area 100 kilometers east of Milan lake Iseo.

How to Start a Vertical Garden?

Choose a Wall

For vertical garden-building advice, we talked to Philip Yates

of the Singer Hill Café in Oregon City,
Ore., founder of website The Vertical Garden Institute.Yates says he learned through a lot of trial
and error, and also used the book The Vertical Garden by
Patrick Blanc, a botanist considered the inventor of vertical gardens, as a guide.

Start by choosing a wall. “If you’ve got a wall that’s ugly, that’s the one you’re going to want to do,” Yates says. The good news is that almost any wall will do, and unless you want to build a very large vertical garden or plant trees, you don’t need to worry about weight load.

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