The bacteria-based light is an experiential take on traditional chandeliers. Attached to the fixture are many Petri dishes that house actual DNA swabbed from the homeowners and visitors to create a network of living, breathing bacteria that interacts with the immediate environment.
Bacterioptica’s fluid design is meant to suggest movement and is achieved by a web of slinky fiber optic strands that hang ominously overhead, illuminated by headlights
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Visiting the Design Museum in London was rather refreshing. It was fun seeing how advanced technology has gone to create some of the products shown on display such as the first chainless bicycle in the world, that runs on electricity.
Other than using varieties of plastic scraps in different colours to create a piece of art like the chair, I was dumbfounded when I found that you can also compress wool in alot to heat to produce cost-effective plastic!
Technology moving on its own…
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Caux Collective Redirects: United Visual Artists
The stunning installation you see here was created following an innovative pursuit of depicting time without using any traditional means of measurement. London-based Art and Design practice, United Visual Artists (UVA), sought to create a piece of art which could effectively show the passing of time, whilst also eradicating the need to use seconds, minutes or hours.
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