By one estimate at least 15% of all drugs sold are counterfeit resulting in thousands of deaths. One reason Vardex Laser developed a technique to etch individual pills with 2-D bar codes in a process that takes “less than a millionth of a second” to mark a product in a process that is completely “clean […]
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tracking pills
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shadow sign
The sign for the Gallery Hotel Art in Florence is very discrete – you can only see it at night, and it’s fashioned from small bits of bent wire, which when lit from above by a spotlight project shadows that reveal the hotel’s name on the stucco facade of the building.
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carving cartoons
CraftVillageUK is a web portal for a community of soapstone carvers in Kenya designed to allow them to sell their intricate carvings directly to consumers worldwide. According to their website, the carvers earn four times as much per sculpture by selling through the web, and their earnings represent a significant increase in quality of life. […]
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interfaces for museumgoers
While on vacation in France recently, I had the fortune to visit a few of the world’s leading museums, both in terms of the art displayed and the incredible quality of the exhibit design itself. Museums serve different roles for different people – as tourist destinations, research institution, and entertainment complexes. The spatial complexity of […]
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approximate chairs
These stereolithography models represent iterations of chairs generated voxel-by-voxel using a genetic algorithm seeking to ‘evolve’ a chair by random mutations judged for fitness in terms of chair-ness. Which means that instead of designing a chair like normal designers, EZCT Architecture & Design Research designed an organism made of little cubes that was virtually bred […]
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touch map 3
In addition to holding the best collection of indigenous art I have ever seen, Musee du Quai Branly in Paris has incredibly well-designed exhibit spaces. Galleries covering the arts of Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America flank a sinuous wall wrapped in leather that contains seats, nooks for watching videos and listening to sounds, as […]
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green walls 2
While in Paris I was fortunate to come across two green walls in the city: the first is a massive three-story vertical jungle atop a loading dock for a department store in the Marais by Patrick Blanc (above), the second was a billboard for a green cleaning product near the Sorbonne (below). While I generally […]
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darth vaderama
The Palais de Tokyo in Paris is officially my favorite museum in the world. I was recently treated to the awesome experience of Last Manoeuvres in the Dark by Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni: “Since 2007 Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni have shared an attraction towards community-based practice, bad taste and the different forms of […]
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