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Category: Design

Art: Small Sculptures ~by Insect Lab


Insect Lab is an artist studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and mechanical components. Offering specimens that come in many shapes, sizes and colors; each insect is individually adorned, each is one of a kind and unique.

Borrowing from both science fiction and science fact, Insect Lab’s customized insects are a celebration of natural and manmade function. Specimens are presented in custom black shadow boxes or glass dome display, allowing for presentation anywhere.

Architecture: The Zero Energy Media Wall ~by Simone Giostra & Partners and Arup


ZERO ENERGY MEDIA WALL
GreenPix is a groundbreaking project applying sustainable and digital media technology to the curtain wall of Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing, near the site of the 2008 Olympic Games. Featuring the largest color LED display worldwide and the first photovoltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China, the building performs as a self-sufficient organic system, harvesting solar energy by day and using it to illuminate the screen after dark, mirroring a day’s climatic cycle.

Fashion: The Botanical Bird at Etsy

The Botanical Bird

– botanicalbird.etsy.com
Garden Themed Jewelry

Botanical Bird is a gardener and artist living in Portland, Oregon, currently running a seasonal gardening business as well as having the jewelry business on Etsy. The Botanical Bird’s favorite materials includes antique beads, vintage beads, gemstones, aged brass, silver, copper, chains, charms and more. Here are some of the showcase of The Botanical Bird’s Jewelry.


Moon Shell Owl Necklace

Design: BMW GINA Light Visionary


BMW is really thinking outside the proverbial box with their latest concept design exercise. If the previously featured M1 concept did not strike your fancy, maybe this GINA Light Visionary Model will do the trick. The GINA is a roadster concept wherein the use of sheet metal found on bodies of production vehicles has been replaced with a special, flexible, highly durable and extremely expansion-resistant fabric material that stretches across a metal structure.