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Danfoss Art Award

International ArtAward for students within visual arts, design or architecture
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With the theme “visualize our values” Danfoss A/S has launched an international ArtAward. The total award sum is 100,000 EUR. Deadline for applying is September 7th, 2007.

An international renowned jury will nominate a number of artworks for gold, silver and bronze awards, which will each be awarded an amount of 5,000 EUR, 3,000 EUR and 2,000 EUR, respectively.

More information on: www.artaward.danfoss.com

Parasol Island

Strut your funky stuff - Parasol Island updated the site with some new animation projects including Congstar and some other wicked stuff. Grab yourself a piece of the action on Parasol Island .

On Folding

Matthew Shlian is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based paper engineer, architect, teacher and sculptor. If you missed his beautiful drawings and folding structures at the '06 Cranbrook Degree Show - or want to see more, check out all the work at his website.

"The enthusiasm of my students often finds its way into my studio practice. Seeking sources from diverse backgrounds, I have realized that when different approaches collide, remarkable results occur. The lab and the studio share a symbiotic relationship. Rooted in both print media and the book arts, my methodology has grown to include science and technology among its main influences. The act of folding lends itself to a creative and impulsive process as well as a calculated one. In my studio the fold is the starting point, the place where energy is transferred and from the initial fold to subsequent ones, sculptures develop. In the lab the fold is used for both representation and research. Bio-mimicry, the act of extrapolating design principles from nature, fuels my work. Protein mis-folding, the root cause of Alzheimer’s and cystic fibrosis, is mapped on a human scale from paper to gain understanding of structural problems. Solar cells woven into textiles become flexible and using paper engineering techniques we can better understand the complex issues of “micro-origami” and the problems inherent in scaling our folds to a nanoscale."

Japanese Sewer System

If i'd have to make a sci-fi movie, i wouldn't use cgi, i'd go directly in the Japanese Sewer System .