The Normative Lunch Blog

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Cybele Young's Paper Sculptures Depict Everyday Objects Metamorphosing into Otherworldly Creatures

I Thought They Worked Better. Paper. 33 x 28 x 2.5 in. I Thought They Worked Better. Detail. A pair of yellow headphones. A violin case. A set of keys. All miniature objects faithfully crafted from Japanese papers by Toronto-based artist Cybele Young, any one of which would be considered striking

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Universal Everything transforms the Sydney Opera House into a living mural

Collaborating with over 20 different animation studios worldwide, Universal Everything has created a living mural on one of the world’s most iconic buildings, the Sydney Opera House. You may have s...

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Helsinki Design Lab helps government see the 'architecture of problems.' We assist decision-makers to view challenges from a big-picture perspective, and provide guidance toward more complete solutions that consider all aspects of a problem. Our mission is to advance this way of working. We call it strategic design.

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Synchrony is a therapeutic music platform that helps parents and children with autism develop intimacy and promote understanding with each other through improvised music play.

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An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second world war and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.

via Neil Halloran

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(via Poster, Street Scene, 2012 | Objects | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

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(via A Variety of Unprocessed Foods Cut into Uncannily Precise 2.5cm Cubes by Lernert & Sander | Colossal)

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(via Topp - Connectivity and Data)

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The industrial design of the Myo armband

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As we negotiate our relationship with our lagomorph companion [20], it is necessary to think rabbit agency without anthropomorphizing it. Relationships are not tangible, but they form a fertile field of investigation in art, pushing interactivity into a literal domain of intersubjectivity. Everything exists in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. By focusing my work on the interconnection between biological, technological, and hybrid entities I draw attention to this simple but fundamental fact. To speak of interconnection or intersubjectivity is to acknowledge the social dimension of consciousness.

GFP BUNNY

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RGB color atlas

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We finally found the elusive design unicorn.

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