These photographs are printed to be broken by hand
Kennedy shoots with the second life of the image already in mind: printing, painting, cutting and rebuilding it by hand. Collage changes the photograph before the scissors even arrive.
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She left architecture. AutoCAD followed her into illustration
Moscoso left architecture but kept its lines, structures and even AutoCAD. She now uses them to build editorial images that begin in ordinary rooms before drifting somewhere stranger.
Jennifer Latour grafts flowers with the same skills she used to build movie monsters
Bound Species is not a photomontage. Jennifer Latour pierces, joins and balances real stems using skills learned in special-effects makeup, then photographs the temporary species before they wilt.
Discarded plush toys return as uneasy guardians
For Apotropaia, Sungho Bae retrieves plush toys from waste sites, opens them up and rebuilds them around armatures with leather, clay, feathers and ritual objects. Waste comes back as an uneasy guardian.
What if our devices improved by doing less?
Good Screens gathers quieter, narrower and more physical devices. Its useful idea: put “fewer functions” back into the designer’s toolbox.
Packing foam stands upright like a Renaissance bonnet
Packing foam, fruit mesh and plastic become bonnets, collars and drapery. Suzanne Jongmans does not hide these materials: she sculpts them, then photographs them like old textiles.
A two-metre book sorts memories that refuse to stay sorted
Find The Earth turns personal objects into a printed archive: a two-metre Riso book sorted between things remembered, fading and forgotten.
Nine resonators let recycled PLA colour the sound
Ninefold shreds discarded PLA, reprints it as large tuned forms and leaves its color and transparency variations visible. Recycled material becomes part of the acoustic behavior.
This robot finger sees pressure in color instead of reconstructing touch
A mechanochromic skin turns deformation directly into colors a camera can read. The prototype reaches 100-micrometer resolution without a heavy reconstruction pipeline.
How Midjourney was built: open diffusion, 10,000 GPUs and zero VC
Midjourney began as a small self-funded lab building on open breakthroughs in CLIP and diffusion. What we know about its first models, training costs and shift toward proprietary technology.