This Dazzling Fiber Optic Dress Lets You Create Wonderful Light Paintings

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California-based artist Natalie Walsh has created a beautiful illuminated dress that is made with strands of glowing fiber optic filaments.



Definitely making a fashion statement, this Fiber Optic Dress has a flowing skirt that its wearer can swing about to create stunning light patterns, which could be captured as lovely light paintings using long exposure photography.



Walsh has posted detailed instructions on how to make this dress on Instructables—watch it in action in the video below.



We think that this would be a great costume for a big festive event.



















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Massive Wooden Labyrinth Creates An Experience That Awakens The Senses

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Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira has created a wooden labyrinth installation that spans across the corridors of Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo.



The massive installation allows visitors to walk through its wooden tunnels, creating an intriguing experience that stimulates the senses of sight, sound and smell.



As with his other installations, the “Transarquitetonica” is stamped with his trademark by using repurposed wood pieces of “skin”, fixed together into an “organic growth” like the roots of a tree.



Head over to the artist's website for more of his fascinating creations.



Watch the video below to learn about the meaning behind the “Transarquitetonica” project, and how it was built.























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A Trio Of Shelves That Is Designed To Be A ‘Mini Apartment’ For A Cat

Creative makers of cat furniture, CatastrophiCreations has come up with the “3 Level Cat Bunker” that “has everything a cat would need in any emergency situation”.



Consisting of three wooden shelves that are attached together with stiff bottomweight fabric, this fun “mini apartment” for cats has holes cut through each level, allowing your pet to get from one shelf to the next with ease.



While the top shelf serves as a “plush chaise lounge”, the bottom shelf is the dining area and is equipped with food and water bowls.



You can get one of these cat bunkers for your beloved feline here for US$160.



















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Animated: How To Create The Perfect Logo In 11 Steps

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Spanish industrial designer Borja Acosta de Vizcaino, who previously wrote the guide on creating the perfect logo in 11 steps, has animated his guide into a short video.



Created with the help of Álvaro Abrante, the video addresses the “principles of clean, effective and functional logo design”.



Check out the video below:







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‘DermoScreen’ App Checks If You Have Cancer By Snapping A Photo Of Your Skin

George Zouridakis, an engineering technology professor at the University of Houston, has developed an iPhone app called ‘DermoScreen’ that checks if you have cancer by snapping a photograph of your skin.



Aside from the software, the app uses a special magnifying lens called a dermoscope attachment to illuminate your skin in a certain way. Take a picture of the area and the app will provide a diagnosis in seconds. It has achieved an 85% accuracy rate so far, similar to that of dermatologists.



The traditional method of cancer diagnosis involves removing all or part of a suspicious growth and examining the tissue under a microscope–if the app makes it to market, it could provide cheap and effective cancer screenings for millions of people without access to medical specialists.



The ‘DermoScreen’ app is currently being improved on to test for a flesh-eating bacteria in Africa called Buruli ulcer, with the help of a US$412,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health.



Find out more about the app here.





[via PSFK and The University of Houston]

Artist Illustrates Imaginative Black-And-White Moleskine Doodles

Swiss illustrator and graphic designer Jared Muralt has released an imaginative series of his Moleskine doodles.



Using just a Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment pen, he created these intricate drawings based on his observations of people, scientific inventions and animals.



Muralt shared that he draws directly with a pen because “a fault is a fault and belongs to the drawing”.



Scroll down for more of his works.































[via Illusion, images from Jared Muralt]

Touching Photographs Of New Dads Taken Moments After Their Child’s Birth

London-based photographer Dave Young recently captured touching portraits of new fathers at Chelsea and Westminister Hospital.



They were taken for a special Father’s Day book by The Book of Everyone, a book-making website that lets you personalize books for any occasion.



The portraits were shot on the nights of 23 to 26 April, and perfectly capture the “awe, worry and relief on the faces of new Dads who have just witnessed the birth of their sons or daughters,” said Steve Hanson, co-founder of the website.



After having their portraits taken, the happy fathers were asked to describe how they felt, as well as pen a message to their newborns.



Check out some of the photographs below and find out more about the book here.

































[via The Huffington Post, images by Dave Young]