Grass Wheel

Grass Wheel

Many of us are so busy being good little hamsters that we never have face time with green space. A group of students from Dalhousie School of Architecture – David Gallaugher, Kevin James, and Jacob Jebailey – decided to remedy this problem with a street-ready grass-lined wheel.

This project reminds us of Rebar’s PARK(ing), which turned metered parking spaces into temporary parks. Both concepts point out not only on our lack of interesting green space, but also our lack of time to enjoy them. We’re huge fans of urban intervention as a means of shaking up normalcy and calling for a change.

Flags Campaign

US Flag Stats

Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team ~ that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail.
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We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.

2006 Visualization Challenge

Visualization Challenge

The still life on the cover of this week’s issue of Science is not a photograph but a computer-generated rendering of five famous mathematical surfaces. The result, created by Richard Palais of the University of California, Irvine, and graphic artist Luc Benard, is a virtuoso display of modern computer-graphics technology. (Notice how the glassy surfaces are reflected in one another and in the glass-covered, wood-grained tabletop.)

The image is the first-place winner in the illustration category of the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

The links on this page will take you to articles describing the accomplishments of the creative and gifted scientists, artists, and others who put the winning entries together, as well as an online slide presentation that showcases the competition’s winners and honorable mentions.

Yanko Design

Cutting Scale

Here at Yanko Design we want to provide designers a platform for publication. We acknowledge your talent and dedication for design here. Simply include your full name, product descriptions, images and your URL. Our dedicated design team will process it and feature it on our site.

This concept is a cutting board that has an integrated scale within a defined area on it’s surface.

The Seattable combines two functions: comfortable workdesk and meeting room chair in one piece of furniture.

Aerosol Art

Aerosol Art

A monumental feat will become reality in 2006 in Waterloo, Iowa.

Never before has an attempt been made of such magnitude, but Paco will be the first to push the envelope and take graffiti art to a higher power.

This summer Paco will be the first artist in the world to bring the Sistine Chapel to the Cedar Valley — all in spray paint.

Recent visitors, Rosic said, included art teachers from Minneapolis and an employee from the New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, Iowa.