by admin | May 4, 2014 | |
Prints Before Breakfast Art Gallery Digital Print Service Prints Before Breakfast Prints Before Breakfast is a new digital print service and curated gallery of modern art. Base just outside Oxford Prints Before Breakfast offer a select service for Artists, Designers, and Galleries who need high-quality digital prints of Art and Design. Printing is based on the HP z31oo PS large format giclée printer with 12 archival inks. Flatbed scanning is available up to A4 size. Location: Oxfordshire, UK Development Phase: Launching May 2014 Website: Prints Before Breakfast Follow… Search...
by admin | May 3, 2014 | |
Elemensus™ Word play chemistry Available to buy online at: Visible Object The Challenge To create a traditional board game using the abbreviations of elements from Dmitri Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Chemistry. Each element is represented by an abbreviation which is historically connected to its original naming. These are typically one or two letter combinations: Oxygen is O. Lead is Pb {based on the Latin word for Lead Plumbum} . Elements which have yet to be named, but are known to exist, have temporary names like Ununpentium {Uup}. In addition to explore possibility of making an online game, and other variations with a database of calculated words. Co-Sm-I-C F-U-N Alvin Toffler comments in The Third Wave that people (children) are three times more likely to learn and retain knowledge if they do so through playing games. The sciences can be fantastic fun and many children take naturally to these subjects when well taught. Elemensus provides an opportunity to approach ideas in chemistry, physics, astronomy, and language in a playful, fun way. It provides access to the Periodic Table and turns scientific discovery in Chemical Science into personal discovery of the Elements, their names, how they are labelled and how they might fit together. Elemensus allows anyone to celebrate language in all its forms, and to playfully relive that we’re all made of Stars*. Every single element in our bodies has been created from the original BigBang and synthesised in the element factories we call stars and on Earth. Our nearest star is the S-U-N. By playing with the elements, making words and connections we can all explore the constituent parts of the...
