AI-generated Architecture: “Gaudism” by Ariadna Gimenez.

Designer Ariadna Giménez creates AI-generated ‘Gaudism’ project that explores aspects of Catalan Modernism. Gimenez explains ‘Gaudism — from Gaudí, is a project exploring aspects of Catalan Modernism at different scales and translating it into a contemporary minimalist expression of natural forms, focusing on the curves, the dynamism, the beyond fairytale aspect or fantastic feel that this movement generates.’

"Real heroes don't wear cape", a powerful image by Uğur Gallenkuş

Real heroes don't wear cape.

     The history of medicine shows how societies have changed in their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present. Early medical traditions include those of Babylon, China, Egypt and India. Sushruta, from India, introduced the concepts of medical diagnosis and prognosis. The Hippocratic Oath was written in ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE, and is a direct inspiration for oaths of office that physicians swear upon entry into the profession today. In the Middle Ages, surgical practices inherited from the ancient masters were improved and then systematized in Rogerius's The Practice of Surgery. Universities began systematic training of physicians around 1220 CE in Italy.

    Invention of the microscope was a consequence of improved understanding, during the Renaissance. Prior to the 19th century, humorism (also known as humoralism) was thought to explain the cause of disease but it was gradually replaced by the germ theory of disease, leading to effective treatments and even cures for many infectious diseases. Military doctors advanced the methods of trauma treatment and surgery. Public health measures were developed especially in the 19th century as the rapid growth of cities required systematic sanitary measures. The mid-20th century was characterized by new biological treatments, such as antibiotics. These advancements, along with developments in chemistry, genetics, and radiography led to modern medicine.

     Louis Pasteur is one of those heroes. Pasteur is French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. The person who laid the foundations of modern microbiology. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases, and his discoveries have saved many lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. via Wikipedia

      Mustafa Kemal Atatürk once said, "if one day my words are against science, choose science.". I loving this strong statement. 

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Architectural Drawing by Adelina Gareeva

Follow Adelina’s art and various projects on her Instagram @li.adeli. 

Extremely Chunky Knits By Anna Mo

Ukraine-based Anna Mo knits super chunky blankets with giant, three-inch stitches. This is the ultimate security blanket you can get lost in. She uses custom-made, two-inch-thick needles for her knits, which also include sweaters and scarves.

Mo began knitting to have a hand-based escape from her head-based design job. No surprise then, that her work emphasizes its hand-made nature. The yarn wriggles with every huge loop, imperfections are magnified, and each piece has a unique flair. This blanket will be yours and yours only!

The yarn is 100% Australian Merino wool, meaning that it is soft, warm, light, and perfect for wearing against bare skin. Winter seems forever away, but if you’re under one of these knits, it will be no threat at all.

Mo sells her knits, yarn, and giant needles at her Etsy shop, Ohhio.

Amazing Sand Sculptures by Ray Villafane

While Ray Villafane is best known for his expertise in the art of food carving, he is also recognized for his magnificent, remarkably realistic sand sculptures. Using just sand and water, the artist sculpts incredibly detailed figures that tower above him as he works. Funny-faced people, nativity scenes, and hellish creatures from Dante’s Inferno appear so life like that it’s hard to believe they were formed from humble grains of sand. 

Villafane only began sand sculpting in 2008 after accepting a challenge in Jesolo, Italy.

Despite not having any experience working with the medium, he wowed viewers with his exceptional craft, and since then has received invitations from all over the world to take on new sand sculpting projects.

Visit www.villafanestudios.com for more!

Illustration Work by Amy Hamilton

Amy Hamilton is a young graphic designer and illustrator based in Ontario, Canada. Meet Amy’s beautiful animal illustrations…

 Amy Hamilton - Bear/Calm

 Amy Hamilton - Moose

                                                                                     Amy Hamilton - Red Deer/Stag

 Amy Hamilton - Stags/Strong

                                                                                        Amy Hamilton - Wolf

Find more by visiting her Instagram account, click here!

Designer Turns Real Flower Petals Into Fashion Illustrations

Grace Ciao is a 22-year-old artist from Singapore who uses a unique style in her fashion illustrations. Instead of using watercolours, ink, fabric, or other conventional means, she preserves the beauty of dying flower petals by transforming them into clothing sketches. This way, the petals become not only gorgeous substitutes for lines, curves, and colours, but also become a source of inspiration themselves, introducing new kinds of forms and textures to her clothing designs.

Although she was interested in fashion design since she was a little girl, Ciao only recently came up with the idea of using flower petals in her work. The thought came to her when she wanted to preserve the beauty of a dying rose that she got from a boy. The discovery helped her realize the aesthetic and artistic advantages of this original use of petals.

“They help me create prints which I otherwise couldn’t have thought of,” Ciao told Buzzfeed. “I think petals work really well for illustration also because their delicacy and exquisiteness mimic those of a soft fabric.”

Ciao currently studies at business school, but she constantly works on new fashion illustrations as a freelancer, creating designs for everyday clothing, bridal wear, and haute couture.

Also see the plant artworks of Elżbieta Wodała which are similar in style with these beautiful designs.

Source: graceciao.com | Instagram (via)

"The Octopus Table" by Isaac Krauss

The Octopus Table is a beautiful (predominantly) bronze sculpture designed and sculpted by artist Isaac Krauss. He collaborated with Alex Friend who contributed wax and welding work to the piece.

NaDD Award

In order to be able to renew with a simple idea of modularity obtaining the re-use of waste materials, the ability to connect to all Neapolitan of intelligent adaptation to the occasions of life and furnishing. Third prize for “Able“ to arch. Anna Lisa Pecora and arch. Ugo Falanga.

For versatility and adaptibility of the object, for the ability to characterize the urban fabric with an element that retains the impertimence of an “accent“ without sacrificing the technological research and material. For innovative thinking on the subject of the arrest and urban how they interact with the environment. Second prize for “Urban Empty“ to arch. Chiara Cassese.

For the accomplished synthesis of intent sculptural, functional, communicative capacity of the project. For the ability to include in the urban elegance of expression, for renewed reflection with creative design a purely functional object and it made itself the object of furnishing. First prize for “Emme“ to arch. Andrea Fiore.

The Format Versus Award

Filippo Ianniello was the winner because of its strong feature of experimenter and innovator in the use and production of environmentally friendly materials and natural, even though they were already used in history through an innovative and unique creative, has given rise to a new material with aesthetic amazing. Without resorting to artificial materials and work only hand the lands of the volcano – lava, pozzolana, lava and ash – are reunited, and date in different shapes and colors for trays, frames, benches, tables and floors.

NaDD Cake

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Napoli Design Week 2013

Napoli Design District (www.napolidesigndistrict.it) is a territorial-marketing action, its goal is promoting artistic and designer’s excellences through local networks, and improving Naples’s cultural offer mixing creativity, tradition and innovation. The NaDD Award was born by the desire to explore the creative energies of the city in a simple and direct way: without any limitation of training. The theme this year is “At Green”: Outdoor Design. The title is on ironic tune with the current global economic times; the participants have been called to produce one or more prototypes of objects included in the category of Outdoor Design. The winner is the ability to combine the power of local tradition with the culture of contemporary design. 

Naples Design Week (www.napolidesignweek.it) is exposure 1/8 April 2013 from the best picks NaDD Award. The prototypes rewarded or not leaving the studios, laboratories and drawers and propose to the city and to the general public: the design objects leave the tunnels and go to propose in stores and showrooms looking for a direct contact with the public and the market, creating a display circuit that involves an area of the city, where culture mixes shopping and entertainment. Then activates a circuit virtuous citizen, a path in the creative and innovative dimension dell’handmade-design ideas, experiences and moments of analysis that no shortage of thrill and surprise the visitor, the tourist, the artist!

This second edition involving different cultural operators (associations, organizations, clubs, etc.) Each with its own offer creative, self-managed and self-funded auto-promoted in: art, culture, design, photography, music, etc. A collaboration « participated » to present to the public a package of special creative services during Design Week. It works so that the contacts with the « Design Week » abroad create a continuous exchange of information and turn into a fruitful collaboration. Have named the week of exposure with the words « Napoli Design Week » was a challenge: we know that the weeks of Design in Italy and abroad themselves of contributions and public and private organizations, collaborations and prestigious organization a series of cultural events that constitute the intellectual armor of those occasions. In Naples, a lot has been done in terms of debates, discussions, lectures and keynote valuable. We humbly we wanted to take the lead, hoping to be able to count on the support and contributions to intellectual and creative that this initiative is always with great enthusiasm, wide open.

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