MSCED : 094 — 電力組曲 C:電化の暮らし／Guernica
Make Something Cool Every Day is a personal, (ideally-) daily design exercise wherein I churn out type-centric black and white drabbles using song titles, the Univers type family (Kozuka Gothic for Japanese type) and some wonderful images from Wikimedia Commons.
Typography: Heart Attack
↳ But you make me wanna act like a girl. Paint my nails and wear high heels. Yeah it’s you, make me so nervous and i just can’t hold your hand.
Mãe: Fui eu. Por quê?
Eu: Nada não, é que eu amei. Onde você colocou isso deixou um design da casa tão ótimo, tá de parabéns mãe, já pode ser arquiteta.
Largest ever solar sail could launch in 2014.
NASA are preparing the final design for a massive 13,000 square foot solar sail, which could launch as early as next year. When collapsed, the sail is the size of a dishwasher and weighs just 70 pounds. Once in space the unit will unfurl and catch sunlight, or more importantly a combination of photons and solar gasses being ejected from the sun, which will very slowly act to speed up the sail and push it out to a point about 3,000,000 kilometres out from Earth.
Once proven, solar sail technology could enable a host of versatile space missions, including flying an advanced space-weather warning system to more quickly and accurately alert satellite operators and utilities on Earth of geomagnetic storms caused by coronal mass ejections from the sun. The technology also could provide an economical solution to removing some of the more than 8,000 pieces of orbital launch debris ringing the planet; conduct station-keeping operations, or hover at high latitudes above Earth for communications and observation; and could drive a variety of propellantless, deep-space exploration and supply ferrying missions.
Sound Sculptures: An Interactive Installation
This inventive cardboard installation is made by the Swiss design group, Zimoun. This installation is quite intriguing, it’s a series of 2,000 cardboards attached to 200 DC motors, which makes music in the most unconventional way thought. Sound Sculptures is truly a piece to marvel at, the scathing audio that is lurking in everyday objects. The untapped potential in the world. The clean, elegant sound sculptures combine visual, sonic, and spatial elements in an organically balanced entirely artwork. Using simple and well- conceived mechanical systems, Zimouns‘s work transforms and activates the space. Be sure to check out more of Zimoun’s work after the jump.
Be sure to watch the video for more of interactive showcasing of the installation, over at Vimeo.
Elihu Thomson looking through a telescope. Thomson was chief engineer of General Electric in the 1890s and an early pioneer in dynamo design.
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