Tattfoo Tan, a Malaysian-born artist who lives in Staten Island, New York, takes regular trips to the Union Square Greenmarket. After photographing his purchases, he started using Photoshop’s eyedropper tool to extract 88 colors that would best represent 88 different fruits and vegetables. He called it the Nature Matching System.
via A Public Art Project Shows You the Colors You Should Be Eating – Food – GOOD.
Here are a few charities that I’ve supported in the past couple of month.
Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
Children’s Cancer Research Fund in Memory of Julian Golden
If you can, give to the cancer charity of your choice.
Some say that the best industrial design is invisible, and if you notice it, something’s wrong. That’s seems especially true with medical devices, which most people only encounter when… well, something’s wrong. So when med-tech firm Varian wanted to redesign their line of nuclear medicine devices (which are used to scan for scary stuff like malignant tumors), they brought in the big guns at BMW DesignworksUSA. The result of their collaboration, the Varian TrueBeam, may not look much different at first glance from any other hulking piece of hospital equipment. But as with any effective industrial design, it’s the details that matter most.
via BMW Designs a Cancer-Fighting Machine That Isn’t Scary | Co.Design.
Do we gain creative momentum as we grow older? Nicholas Delbanco tackles this subject with Lastingness.
