We have seen Theo Jansen blow our minds with his walking kinetic sculptures that he calls ‘a new form of life’. Now its time to get whimsical with Korean kinetic artist U-Ram Choe, whose lineage includes a scientist grandfather and sculptor parents.
He was recently housed at the Autodesk Workshop at Pier 9 in San Francisco, where he was working as Artist in Residence.
With a jury of twenty-four established designers who have ‘been there and done that’, taking home one of the 176 trophies in the annual IDSA IDEA Awards is certainly no easy feat. Between Fifty-Three’s stylus and new start up PillPack’s innovative take on the prescription medication user experience (designed in partnership with IDEO), the IDEA…
Hold the Cheetos and fruit snacks! The average child throws away an estimated 55 lbs of food a year from school lunches…and we’re pretty sure that the majority of that is damaged food (smashed sandwiches?) or food that isn’t being served in its optimum state (who wants cold tomato soup?). Needless to say, fresh food…
Oftentimes with upcycling, the best executions haven’t always been in repurposing wasted objects in their current physical state but rather, using the base material to create a new material to work with. We’ve seen this with ‘useless’ bike tubes that have been sliced and sewn together to create a rubber sheet for bags—or even something…