In light of the impending 2012 London Olympics, it seemed highly appropriate to dig into the history of the games since the ancient times. A substantial part of this history has been the prizes, which weren't always gold, silver, and bronze medals. Distinctions between the Summer and Winter games considered, here's A Design History Of The Olympic Gold Medal.
Text by Cedar Pasori (@cpasori).
Image by Simon Jones.
Designed by Welsh designer Ross Lovegrove and manufactured by Artemide, Solar Tree is an urban lighting system created as a part of Clerkenwell Design Week 2012. This futuristic design uses panels and LED lighting units to provide environmentally friendly illumination powered by solar energy.
Much of Lovegrove's work is inspired by nature, and he says his work possesses "a trinity between technology, materials science, and intelligent organic form." The plant-like structure is made of twenty steel pipes, which resemble plant stems and grass. Six of the pipes support solar panels, four support large lights, and ten grass-like stalks are topped with LED lights. All of the steel pipes are connected to 38 solar cells that are in turn connected to a battery system and to an electronic device hidden in the base.
The intention of the design is to return a sense of 'natural' beauty to an otherwise concrete urban environment. The installation will light up at night in St. John's square during the 2012 Olympics and until late September 2012.
(via my modern met)
Feb 26th 1932 - The day Johnny Cash was born. He would've been 80 this year. To commemorate, Claire Suddath at TIME LightBox has crafted a beautiful photo essay comprising rare and unpublished photos of the Man in Black from the Sony Music Archive. Many of the images were taken by Don Hunstein, a prolific music photographer at Columbia records for 30 years, and date from the late ’50s to the early ’70s; they include pictures of Cash and his wife June right after she gave birth to their only son, John Carter Cash, in 1970, as well as the musician at home in California or fishing on his farm in San Antonio.
Read more: TIME Lightbox - Johnny Cash
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