“Splash” (+)
W Korea, May 2013
photographer: Alexi Lubomirski
“De Brut en Blanc”
Vogue Paris, November 2011
NY 1980, Akiko Otake exhibition (+)
Clever! From designer Elizabeth Perez:
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a dystopian future where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them. The story is about suppressing ideas, and about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
I wanted to spread the book-burning message to the book itself. The book’s spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface, so the book itself can be burned.
Fahrenheit 451 - Elizabeth Perez | Graphic Design Art Direction
I learned about this implant today in Biochemistry. It appealed to my science and design sides— so, naturally, I thought it was the coolest thing and made a note to blog it later.
Companies also are developing noninjection delivery mechanisms. For example, Intarcia Therapeutics is developing a GLP-1 receptor agonist implant, ITCA-650. This small osmotic pump is implanted subcutaneously and delivers therapeutics for nearly one year. In November, the company raised $210 million in financing, enabling global Phase III trials to begin the first quarter of 2013.
The drug delivery process is straightforward:
Intarcia Therapeutics’ delivery system is a matchstick-sized device consisting of a cylindrical titanium alloy reservoir. Once inserted under the skin, water from the extracellular fluid enters the device at one end, by diffusing through a semi-permeable membrane directly into a salt osmotic engine that expands to drive a piston at a controlled rate of travel. This forces the drug formulation to be released in a slow and consistent fashion through the exit port, or diffusion moderator, at the other end of the device.
I’d like to find a summer gig to learn more about the overlap between medicine and product design.
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business card progress, pre-kerning (cell phone blurred)
