The advertising creatives at Jung Von Matt call Hamburg their home, as they have held their headquarters in a historic 19th century factory building for quite some time now. Only recently, did the marketing gurus call upon the architects atStephan Williams Associates to extend their workspace with the occupation of two new floors.
Bates Masi + Architects has its roots in the East End of Long Island for over forty years while building in various places throughout the United States, Central America and the Caribbean. Sites, clients, technology and programs change but the desire and ability to respond to each design problem with an equally unique design solution has been a constant in the firm’s philosophy.
Two and a half miles under the Earth lies Lake Vostok, which hasn’t seen the light of day in 20 million years. It’s taken almost 20 years of drilling, but Russian scientists are about to break through and explore the lake at the bottom of the world.
Great news for timelapse video fans — we should be seeing plenty more aurora borealis over the coming years, as solar activity is on the up, claim space weather experts such as University of Michigan’s Tamas Gombosi, who said “the solar cycle is increasing, and so we are going to get more storms,” with “at least” a day’s warning for coming storms, which we should see monthly from now on. Full story at Gizmodo.
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For a long time there were a number of people talking about how iPhone photos, and Instagram photos in turn, weren’t “real”, basically that they held no value.
As visitors flock to this year’s blockbuster show, the National Gallery’s Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones takes a detailed look at some of the Renaissance master’s most admired drawings
The Case of Wonders – an exhibition taking place within the Moscow Design Week between 12th and 15th October – is a cooperative project between the International Design School and one its graduates, a most notable Russian designer – Dima Loginoff. Currently, Dima is ranked 2nd in the world of product designers by “Design & Design” – an annual design competition which takes place in France every year.