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Browsing Painterly

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Technology

Painting reality

US – A short film created using the Oculus Quill tool highlights the creative potential of virtual reality.

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Food & Drink

Euphorescence

Employing chromatic stimulation, light therapy and meditative imagery, designers are creating new environments that enhance and optimise our mental wellbeing and electrify the senses.

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Design

Seeds of creativity: The art of gardening

Sweden – Gardening is about more than planting seeds and hoping they will grow into something beautiful. It can be approached creatively, like a painter with a brush, to produce tableaux of colours from nature. Swedish gardening house Coloni does just that.

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Europe

Timber

It takes a Frenchman to call flatpack furniture ‘poetic’. ‘Boring’, perhaps. ‘Maddening’, most definitely. Not, as French designer Vincent Tarisien puts it, ‘poetic and playful’. Yet Timber, Tarisien’s range of self-assembly furniture, truly deserves the epithet. His Master’s project for Swiss design school École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne…

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Technology

Intricate insects: Hand-drawn video game zooms in on bugs

London – Morphopolis, by architectural graduates Dan Walters and Ceri Williams, is a computer game that goes beneath the leaves, exploring a detailed, illustrated insect biosphere.

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Europe

The Pour-fect form: DIY furniture with a twist

Switzerland – École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) master’s student Vincent Tarisien has created a range of customisable furniture made from wood and bio-resin, which users must mix themselves.