Sono

Industrial designer Rudolf Stefanich designed this wonderful noise cancelling device for city dwellers. This won’t help you on a hot day when you need your windows to be open, but when they’re closed the selective filtering will let you keep…

Time after Time

Video is always a problem in an exhibition. It’s not often that you really sit down and take time to watch the entire video. But when you do, sometimes these are the works of art that stay with you the…

Nobody listens

Nobody listens to me double you tee ef Are you not getting through to the people surrounding you? Add the words ‘nobody listens’ to your tweets and Rachel Knoll will make sure these Washington State trees will be your audience.

Wish

By taking the picture of an anonymous local girl, and putting it on 11 acres of land near George Best Belfast City Airport, Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada created a wish for the city’s future, for Belfast Festival. map

Wayfinding signage

Creative studio Claan designed wonderful perspective distorted wayfinding signage for the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto.

Beyond the eighth harmonic

The scientific paper Shape oscillation of a levitated drop in an acoustic field by Weiyu Ran and Steven Fredericks introduces the star drop, by placing a simple drop of water into an ultrasonic field. Different harmonics create different shapes in…

Last house standing

Ben Marcin documents the sole survivors of Baltimore’s history of row houses in his series Last House Standing. ‘My interest in these solitary buildings is not only in their ghostly beauty but in their odd placement in the urban landscape.…

Full Turn

Benjamin Muzzin uses two flatscreen monitors to create a modern day zoetrope. Back to back, the screens rotate in tune with the framerate to create seemingly holographic images. But do not touch!

Ruhrtour 2013

Twenty tips in the Ruhr area. In 2010 the Ruhrgebiet was Cultural Capital of Europe. The city of Bochum was the location for festival and theater, Dortmund was creative city, Duisburg harbour was ‘Kulturhafen’, Essen was artsy and Oberhausen a…