January 20, 2015 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY Findings The Interactive Trick Eye Museum Finally, a museum where you can touch and take pictures of the artwork! The Trick Eye Museum is for people who enjoy weird and unforgettable experiences. Located in Singapore, the museum transforms 3D art illusions…Continue reading
January 17, 2015 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY Fine Arts Unbelievable 3D Sidewalk Art 3D artwork, otherwise known as trompe l’oeil, has been around for centuries. The term was developed in the Baroque period, however, it can be traced back to the time of the Greeks and the Romans.…Continue reading
January 12, 2015 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY ExperimentsFindingsTechnology Google’s Self Driving Car is Unveiled If Google was able to develop a fully functioning self-driving vehicle, anything can be possible. The first prototype arrived in May 2014, an early mockup without headlights and steering wheel. Before the end of the…Continue reading
January 8, 2015 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY AnimationExperiments A Stop Motion Experiment http://vimeo.com/24318095 The creative animation studio, Post 23, has combined two popular film techniques: animation and stop-motion. They redeveloped a character from one of their previous creations (“Raimon”) and combined him with an animator from the…Continue reading
December 30, 2014 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY Industrial Design A Puzzling Color Palette 1000 Colours is a CMYK colour gamete jigsaw puzzle of 1000 pieces. The idea was inspired by the beauty of the subtle colour differences in the CMYK colour palette. In a puzzle, sometimes the intuitive…Continue reading
December 23, 2014 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY Technology New Instagram Filters Instagram, a photo blogging app for smartphones, has gained a growing community of photographers and every-day people that share photos from their lives and experiences. Instagram has recently released new filters that look pretty spectacular:…Continue reading
December 18, 2014 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY FashionHappenings Newly Announced Color of the Year 2015 Last year’s color was orchid purple, however, all good things must come to an end. This year it has been announced that Marsala is the new color of 2015! Since 2000, the Pantone Color Institute…Continue reading
December 15, 2014 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY Fashion Human Anatomy as Wearable Accessories Who knew that human-sourced elements could be transformed into wearable accessories. Designer Konstantin Kofta combines seemingly contradictory elements from the untraditional realm of the fashion industry, with wearable accessories. These garments evoke sensuality and surrealism…Continue reading
December 10, 2014 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY AnimationFindingsFine Arts ‘Gif-iti’ Hypnotizing Street Art British artist INSA creates hypnotizing street art that comes to life. He layers several sheets of paint onto urban walls, documents the different stages, and transforms the still images into an animated moving gif. Although…Continue reading
December 5, 2014 POSTED BY Emma Brennan CATEGORY ExperimentsFindingsIndustrial DesignTechnology The Smallest 3D Printing Pen in the World Imagine being able to make your sketches come to life. The LIX Pen allows you to write and draw without paper. This extraordinary invention makes it easy to create real objects from small to big,…Continue reading
