We are obviously late to the game with the Dot: 360º video capture for the iPhone 4 Kickstarter campaign, as they already met their goal. How exciting is the product idea? The thought of owning one makes me giddy. Great! , full_html
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Dot: 360º video capture for the iPhone 4
The aptly-named Gummo, an Amsterdam-based design consultancy, were commissioned by the Dutch Post Office to create a set of stamps commemorating contemporary architecture in the Netherlands., full_html
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3D postage stamp architecture
With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he…
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Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
This month, NASA announced that after 30 years of spaceflight and over 130 missions, its Space Shuttle Program fleet will be retiring to an earthly resting place. To commemorate the fleet’s remarkable legacy, NASA produced this fantastic short…
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Transbordador espacial Atlantis en el PAD 39A en el centro espacial de Kennedy de la NASA, Florida, en 2007. Imagen cortesía de la NASA foto por George Shelton
Canton Tower, formerly known as Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, design by Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuitis, an observation tower near Chigang Pagoda, Haizhu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The tower is the tallest tower in the world, replaced the…
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Guangzhou TV Tower / Canton Tower / 广州塔
Vicente Sarrablo today introduced the so-called 'ceramic fabric, a composite material consisting of woven ceramic, woven with frame-mesh in galvanized or stainless steel, depending on their use, leading to a flexible ceramic plates that extend the…
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Mingo House. © Photo José Hevia. Courtesy of Vicente Sarrablo
FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with…
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FABRICATE. ScanLAB – 48 Hours of Exhibition Space Scanning
Apparently, for billionaire adventurer Richard Branson, space is no longer the final frontier. Today, he announced his next ambitious project: Virgin Oceanic, which will see the mogul pilot a special ‘flying’ solo submarine to the deepest part of…
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Richard Branson And Google To Map Ocean Floor
Heineken surprises the world again with the design of Heineken Premium STR, a beer bottle that was created using 3D printing and ultraviolet light, in a project in collaboration with the creative agency IRIS and the design studioFOC. , full_html
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Migrations of people have existed for millennia and occur at a range of scales and time-periods (from small-scale journeys to work through to intercontinental resettlement). As a geographer I have long been interested in these and thought it was…
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