Mesmerizing Photos Of Insects Wearing Hats Made Of Water
I can’t begin to imagine the patience of Dimitriy Reinshtein, an Israeli photographer who brings living insects into his studio, places a single drop of water onto their tiny heads, and photographs them with a razor-sharp macro lens. But that’s exactly what he does, somehow, to create larger-than-life images that capture the most fleeting of moments, occurring on the tiniest of subjects. “For a long time, I shot fashion and jewelry, and one day, I imagined an insect that looks human (with hats, clothes and all that stuff),” Reinshtein tells Co.Design. “I thought, ‘How can I give insects a new look?’ So the drop on their head–it’s a kind of hat.” “No, it was not easy, but if you look forward and work with passion, the difficulty is not a problem,” Reinshtein writes. “All the insects are alive and healthy. You just need to talk with them, to calm them and spend a lot of time on one frame.”
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Self-Assembling Furniture
I want you to imagine a scene. You come home with a bundle of squished white fabric. You plug it into the wall like a heating blanket. And within 10 minutes, you have a new chair. That’s the promise of a new materials technology being developed byNoumenon. Based on research into the ideal form of a self-deploying space antenna, designer Carl De Smet has been translating the latticework of pop-up metal into “shape memory polymers”–cheaper plastics that can be smushed for easy shipment, then popped back into their ”remembered” forms later.
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4th Dimension Clock
A wall clock made of cement. Light and shadows, cast by the spiral staircase design, change with the time. The concept is to link space and time. Second hand color available in blue or red. Materials: cement, clock parts Designer: 22designstudio
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U-Roadbed For Subway
The idea of a safety bed nestled within the railway track system is more than necessary for countries like India, where track-deaths are plenty. U-Roadbed is a U-Shaped roadbed created in the sleepers of the track. This cavity safely nestles the unfortunate person who slips onto the tracks of an upcom -ing train. I like the idea because any chance offered at survival and saving life is a good one. I only hope it’s a doable idea~ Designer: Ruidong Wu [ via yankodesign.com ]
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