Xavier Veilhan.
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your nanogarden grow?
Harvard engineer Wim Noorduin has a green thumb. Only his thumb is only a few microns wide. By carefully controlling gradients of chemicals, he guided the construction of flower-like crystal structures to match their larger biological forms. It’s certainly art, but it also demonstrates a masterful manipulation of chemistry on the nano scale.
Just how small are they? As NPR reports, these flowers could fit in the lapel of the tiny Abraham Lincoln statue on the back of a penny (back when pennies had the Lincoln Memorial on them, anyway). These electron microscope images are false colored to recreate fantastic flowers, and these manipulations will one day help control the construction of useful microstructures.
If you’re seriously engineering-inclined, here’s the original research as it appears in Science.
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I often do wonder who and when did a particular style of graphics become popular, these fonts, the graphic look and colour schemes are the hottest concepts in graphics right now and it’s like, who was the originator who created it and who were the people who elevated it into and mass level. 7
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(via Mondorama 2000: Les Protozoaires)
Tout L’univers (Le Livre de Paris 1958-1975)
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Everyone knows I live minimal design but even I think this is a step too far, like the back actually but the front of the cards just lacks balance, you’ve just got to have something there in the middle…. 7
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