Business Startup Event
Business Startup is the UK’s biggest business event for anyone starting a business or expanding one. It has hundreds of seminars and a huge exhibition with plenty of exhibitors to check out. The occasion provides opportunities for everything from one-to-one advice and networking, to a business competition which might get you funding. According to the organisers “it’s the perfect opportunity to find all the recession-defying tools and information to help your business thrive.”
The event runs from the 30th November to 1st December, all between 10:00 – 17:00. Guest speakers range from Richard Farleigh, the ex-Dragons’ Den Panellist to Richard Reed the co-founder of Innocent Drinks. Most importantly, the event is completely free. If you missed it this year don’t worry as the event runs every year.
For more information please visit http://www.bstartup.com/
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Digital Design Flower Petals – Growth & Form
On Growth and Form is an animation by Daniel Brown and it is part of the exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. These flowers are generated with Flash actionscript code and look amazing. The petals are have textures derived from works from the museum archive including William Morris textiles and Kimono fabrics. (via today and tomorrow)
GPS Urban Cursor Exhibit
Amphibian Pavilion raises Environmental Awareness
Conceived by Antoine Damery, the amphibian pavilion from Peddle Thorpe Architects (PTA) is a floating exhibition space that adjusts to varied space needs and can be sailed to distance places as a vessel to organize exhibitions as well as performances via sustainable means. An entry at the World Expo 2012 in Yeosu, Korea, the floating structure is an adaptable living building to support multidisciplinary activities while creating awareness about coastal eco-systems. Drawing inspiration from the contours and fluidity of oceanic organisms, the floating pavilion featuring a schematic design, reactive to the oceanic environments, attaches to the coastline as a living organism. Rising and falling with the tides, the pavilion provides an open interior to collaborate and host a range of events.
Unconventional Wisdom
Exhibition designs by Alfred Zollinger and Sandra Wheeler challenge assumptions about what’s green!
Alfred Zollinger and Sandra Wheeler have a reputation for not taking things at face value. Designing “Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video” at New York’s International Center of Photography, the husband-wife partners poked fun at environmental orthodoxy by constructing giant Ecotopiaries. The pair’s displays for “Green Community,” now at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., are not only technically innovative but also indicative of an increasing involvement in content.
Both Wheeler and Zollinger grew up in what the latter calls “DIY families,” he in Switzerland and she in Toronto. Because of that hands-on background, they like their ideas to evolve in the studio through extensive prototyping and experimenting with materials. The couple first collaborated in the 1990′s at the Cranbrook Architecture Office in Michigan, working on projects by the likes of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, and went on to found Matter Practice in 2002. In addition to exhibition design, the firm is working on residential and commercial projects in New York and Connecticut.
More info: InteriorDesign.com