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One of the segments on Design Ah! is It's Different From What You Expected. Filmmaker Daihei Shibata, who worked on this segment, has recently been uploading a selection of clips from the years 2013 to 2015.

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These 3D-printed sculptures, called “blooms," are designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If one were to count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures, they would find that they are always Fibonacci numbers.

The Walker presents Intangibles—an online collection of art objects that have no physical form, existing side by side with the very tangible items already for sale on the Walker Shop site. From conceptual scores to digital renderings, an impossible object or a dance in the woods, a high concept film experience to a humble PDF, the Intangibles forgo materiality to instead offer experiences, ideas, and services, connecting artists and audiences in new ways. Artists and designers from a variety of disciplines have utilized the form of the online shop page to express their idea, manipulating virtually every surface of a product's expression, in turn exploring ideas of commerce, value, and new transactional logics.

The Augmented Hand Series by Golan Levin, Chris Sugrue, and Kyle McDonald, is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors' hands. Originally conceived in 2004, the project was developed at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry in 2013-2014 through a commission from the Cinekid Festival of children's media.

This large lithograph was published in Oliver Baker (editor) Atlas of American Agriculture. Physical Basis including Land Relief, Climate, Soils, and Natural Vegetation of the United States. Prepared under the Supervision of O.E. Baker, Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

In his series Ways of Knowing, photographer Daniel Stier documents a less-glamorous setting for innovation: the scientific research institute.

These prototype textiles are filled with magnets and materials that respond to magnets like iron powder. When put near electromagnetic fields, the fabric comes to life.

Simulate the stretching that happens during the plunge and bake it into the paint job beforehand.

MIT engineers have fabricated a new elastic material coated with microscopic, hairlike structures that tilt in response to a magnetic field. Depending on the field’s orientation, the microhairs can tilt to form a path through which fluid can flow; the material can even direct water upward, against gravity.

China-based company Fruit Mould makes plastic baby-shaped molds that it fits around budding pears, so that once big and ripe, the fruits resemble little yellow cherubs hanging from a tree.

Collaboration between Japanese Media Artist Nobumichi Asai, Makeup Artist Hiroto Kuwahara.

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In her book Hungarian Cubes: Subversive Ornaments in Socialism, German-Hungarian artist Katharina Roters documents the facades of a popular Hungarian housing type.

A new notebook by Moleskine has been designed for Livescribe smartpens and the Livescribe+ app, with each page containing a dot pattern that makes handwritten notes appear in digital form with surprising speed and accuracy. Here's how to create seamlessly and get the most out of this brand new notebook. 

inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table’s surface. Remote participants in a video conference can be displayed physically, allowing for a strong sense of presence and the ability to interact physically at a distance.

Dominic Wilcox