June 30, 2010
Randy Yau
Type House
An interesting take on prefab housing with typographic facades. Architect Matsunami Mitsutomo developed these large-scale prefab units in Osaka, Japan.
June 23, 2010
Randy Yau
Sacks Spiral
Did you know that when you place integers on a regular spiral, the primes line up in slightly scrambled but still discernable curved bands? In 1994, Robert Sacks, a software engineer, devised this method for representing the classical number line of positive integers. The resulting Sacks spiral produces a remarkably organized distribution of prime and composite numbers.
June 23, 2010
Randy Yau
A whole lotta tape
'Tape Installation' by the Croatian design collective 'for use/numen' is made of tendons of transparent multi-layered adhesive tape stretched between the columns of an ex-stock exchange building. The continuous wrapping of tendons results in a complex, amorphous webbed environment reminiscent of growing organic forms. Has 3M seen this yet?
