Tokyoahead – Masters of Origami Exhibition, Hangar 7, Salzburg I found a nice photo gallery of the exhibits from the Masters of Origami exhibition in Austra this year. Since the website for the event was practically unusable due to a horrendous flash design, I found this to be much more approachable. I had a chance to see the book produced for this event last Sunday at our monthly Origami Minnesota meeting. (thanks Carol!) It’s quite well put together, although as always I would have preferred more images. Not sure it is worth the cost, but I’m more of a blueprint kind of guy, and less a coffee-table-book person. Here’s a few images from the website: edit: hotlinked photos don’t work. Sorry, Tokyoahead.com webmaster! my apologies. Please proceed to the website directly to check out the photos. thanks!

Found this wonderful design via we-make-money-not-art. It’s a flexible, contracting pedestrian bridge by Thomas Heatherwick, which collapses upon itself to create an octagonal shape when not in use. It’s all hydraulics, and it looks fascinating. More info here: He’s also currently working on an innovative Japanese buddhist temple design, based on folded/crumpled/draped fabric: Thomas Heatherwick: Interview UPDATED: these additional photos from PingMag!

Pyramid of stars, tessellated Originally uploaded by Melisande*. Melisande on flickr posted this insanely cool mixup of her 3d star tessellation and one of Ralf Konrad’s designs. It’s a grid of 3d star pyramids! unbelieveably cool. I’m in awe of this design. You might also want to check out her website for more photos and diagrams! here’s more photos of it:

Variação da Pinwheel Avesso Contraluz Originally uploaded by mawelucky. Jane (mawelucky on flickr) posted this fantastic pinwheel tessellation. she took the pinwheel tessellation I put online a few days back and changed it around, flipping the hexagons to the other side of the paper (a technique she has used quite successfully on several other works). I think I like this version more, actually. and here’s the other side:

Saw a blip in my technorati feed- which lead me to Thinking Machine, a blog about a lot of generally fascinating vague concepts that I find particularly interesting. but what really impressed me was that he picked up on the comment I left on the dataisnature.com site. Normally I feel like I can’t convey a single word in an understandable fashion, so it was really good to see that I got a message through despite my verbal fumblings. Thanks, Warren!