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Small World Photos

Arabidopsis thaliana anther - Heiti Paves

First place - Arabidopsis thaliana anther by Heiti Paves

It’s been a good week for contests! Along with the TinySketch contest from the last post, the winners for Nikon’s 2009 Small World photo contest were recently announced.

Third place - Wrinkled photoresist by Pedro Barrios-Perez

Third place - Wrinkled photoresist by Pedro Barrios-Perez

This contest has been held yearly since 1974, and is open to photos taken though a light microscope. There are a ton of stunning images in their galleries (which go back as far as the 1977 contest!) Plus, each includes info about the subject, magnification level, and techniques used – great for anyone interested in doing your own photomicrography.

15th place - Atherix ibis larva by Fabrice Parais

15th place - Atherix ibis larva by Fabrice Parais

Rhizome’s Tiny Sketch contest winner

Driving Through Iceland

Rhizome, an organization that works to promote art works that engage technology, recently paired up with OpenProcessing to hold a contest for the “most compelling creative work” using a Processing program of no more than 200 characters. The Tiny Sketch contest winner has now been announced – dotlassie‘s rather zen game Driving Through Iceland.

More Tiny Sketches can be found either at the closed archive of contest submissions or this open collection of sketches that meet the contest criteria. I’d highly recommend checking out this rose generator and this drawing tool as some interesting starting points.

A Slow Walk

Glass & Metal Specimens from nanopod: Hybrid Studio

Encyclopaedia Anatomica

Encyclopaedia Anatomica

Tosca Hidalgo y Teran of nanopod: Hybrid Studios creates stunning modern jewelry and sculpture based on biological forms. Her work ranges from representational takes on organs and organisms to more whimsical creations that put me in mind of Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations as seen through the looking glass.

Dizygotic Opisthobranchia

Dizygotic Opisthobranchia

Cnidarians

Cnidarians

I love the way she combines the various colors and textures of the glass and metalwork to get such a compelling organic feel. Plus, she makes her work accessible to a wide audience – the prices in her shop range from the thousands all the way down to $10.50!

Perelandrian Ring

Perelandrian Ring

Hello World and Welcome to Art+Sci!

Hi! I’m Shannon Henry, and I’ve created this blog as a place to highlight the incredible things that can happen when art and design are intertwined with science and technology.

So much of the time we are lead to think of Science as completely left-brained and logical and Art as completely right-brained and creative, and never the twain shall meet. But it doesn’t always work that way – from the works of  DaVinci to Audubon‘s illustrations or the mathematically complex works of M. C. Escher and ancient Islamic architects, art and science have often gone together in a beautifully complementary fashion. And with trends like new technology bringing interactivity to art and designers seeking to incorporate ideas from nature into their designs, these fields are becoming more unified than ever.

You don’t have to take my word for it, though – just keep reading, and I’ll show you what I mean!