Doctors can now marshal patients' immune systems to fight some cancers. Yet many people don't respond to immunotherapy, and the costs of treatment can be astronomical.
Studio Sutherl& founder Jim Sutherl& has designed a set of six interactive Agatha Christie-themed stamps revealing the answers to classic Christie murder mysteries.
Each of the stamps is based on a separate novel by Agatha Christie, the best selling novelist of all time.
Sutherland says “visual illusions have been combined with print techniques to give hidden clues.”
People will be able to interact with the stamps as “heat sensitive ink reveals a killer behind a curtain on the train, micro text reproduces a suicide note, and Poirot and Hastings investigate a poisonous crime scene and form a skull,” says Sutherland.
Positive and negative space has also been used to help symbolise the answers to the mysteries.
“There are lots of hidden clues to see and discover with and without magnifying glasses,” says Sutherland, who has worked closely with illustrator Neil Webb.
You will need a magnifying glass for the micro-text stamp though, and you'll need UV light for another.
The stamps also commemorate Christie's birthday. She was born 126 years ago on 15 September 1890.
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What: If you're interested in record sleeves and gig posters, head to this panel talk at the V&A exploring the relationship between graphic design and music. Victoria Broackes, co-curator of the new Records and Rebels exhibition at the V&A will be chairing this discussion, and the panel includes Jonathan Barnbrook, the designer behind the late David Bowie's Blackstar album artwork, and musician Beatie Wolfe.
When: Saturday 17 September, 1.30-2.30pm.
Where: The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Level 4, Victoria and Albert museum (V&A), London SW7 2RL.
Info: Tickets are £10.75 in advance, and part of LDF's Global Design Forum. For more information, head here.
What: Is having dyslexia always a learning difficulty, or can it facilitate lateral and creative thinking? Design and architecture writer Grant Gibson chairs this fascinating discussion, which sits alongside Designjunction's current exhibition, Dyslexic Design, showcasing the work of dyslexic designers. Panelists include illustrator Kristjana S Williams, industrial designer Terence Woodgate, furniture designer Tom Raffield and writer Margaret Rooke.
When: Saturday 24 September, 5-6pm.
Where: The Gallery Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG.
Info: This event is free, and part of this year's Designjunction exhibition and fair. For more information, head here.
What: Packaging is an incredibly important facet of any public-facing brand, whether it's luxury Fortnum and Mason's or mainstream McDonald's. Are we aware of its ability to influence our decisions? Come along to this Design Week hosted panel which will look at current trends and the future of packaging design, with speakers including key figures from Design Bridge, Pearlfisher and Bulletproof, and packaging specialist Daniel Mason who has worked on record sleeves for artists including Björk, Led Zeppelin and Aphex Twin.
When: Sunday 18 September, 1.30-2.30pm.
Where: The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A museum.
Info: Tickets are £10.75 in advance, and part of LDF's Global Design Forum. For more information, head here.
What: Running a design studio might not just be about producing great work for clients. This panel, chaired by Design Week editor Tom Banks, will look at how you can extend your brand by doing new things, such as running events, or housing a gallery within a studio space. Panelists include NB Studio creative director Nick Finney and Amy Croft, the curator of Sto Werkstatt's in-house gallery.
When: Wednesday 21 September, 12-1pm.
Where: The Forum, Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London W14 8UX.
Info: This talk is part of trade show and exhibition 100%Design, which costs £15 for full entry to the show and talks programme. For more information on the talk, head here. For information on how to register for a 100%Design ticket, head here.
What: Marina Willer became Pentagram London's first female partner in 2012, after her time as head creative director at Wolff Olins. In this masterclass, the graphic designer and filmmaker behind branding projects such as the Tate museum, Amnesty International and the Southbank Centre, will be speaking about her experiences as a woman working in a male-dominated industry, and sharing stories of her most famous projects.
When: Sunday 18 September, 3.30-5pm.
Where: The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A museum.
Info: Tickets are £15, and the talk is part of LDF's Global Design Forum. For more information, head here.
A discussion between creative partnership Eva Kellenberger and Sebastian White, in conversation with Design Week.
Designer, Maker, User: A talk looking at the Design Museum's new permanent display, with panelists including Sebastian Conran.
A masterclass with Jonathan Barnbrook.
Made.com: Designing for Small, Urban Spaces: a discussion looking at the increasing population and lack of urban space, and the resulting effects on architecture and design.
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The Department for Health announced this week that the National Health Service (NHS) would be completely redesigning its public-facing website by the end of 2017.
The current nhs.uk (NHS choices) site is currently mainly a hub for researching ailments and symptoms but the government hopes to turn it into a more holistic supersite.
The new nhs.uk site will aim to bring all patient services together allowing them to book appointments, find a GP, access test results, order prescriptions and ask for medical advice all in one place.
It will also be taking into account patient data from “NHS-approved” health apps, the government department says, with the hope of providing more tailored services to patients.
The new polymer £5 note entered circulation this week, with 440 million rolling out in an initial print run.
The redesigned note features Winston Churchill, and according to the Bank of England, is both waterproof and resistant to dirt.
It's also meant to last more than double the amount of time as a paper note, and contains features which make the note harder to counterfeit and easier to recognise for visually impaired people.
Alongside Churchill, a plastic £10 note featuring Jane Austin will arrive in summer 2017, and a £20 note featuring J.M.W Turner will start sweeping the nation in 2020.
A week after rival Deliveroo unveiled an entirely new graphic identity, food delivery service Just Eat rolled out a rebrand.
The new branding sees a spectrum of colours added to the visual application of the brand, and the logo tweaked, with a new italicised logotype and the removal of Just Eat's signature cursor click icon perhaps now an outdated motif.
Alongside the visual look, which was designed by consultancy Venturethree, the brand also wants to change its attitude, with new online features that will enable it to communicate better with its audience.
For instance, a new chatbot feature compatible with Facebook Messenger means customers can receive advice on what restaurants or food to choose, based on previous orders.
This week, car hire and taxi service Addison Lee looked to better align itself with customer service in its latest rebrand.
Ad agency Whistlejacket London worked on the project, and redesigned the logo from its previous monochrome, intertwined “AL” symbol to a more minimal, yellow “AL”.
The “AL” icon uses a serif typeface, while the Addison Lee logotype has been given a sans-serif.
The yellow aims to be a “shorthand for taxis”, explains Whistlejacket London's creative director Kathy Kielty, while the gap created between the “A” and “L” symbols indicates two sides of a road.
Alongside the visual changes, the brand hopes to reposition itself as being more customer-focused through new services such as free wifi, courier services and pet-friendly vehicles.
Plumen's new 003 lightbulb was unveiled this week, after product design consultancy Hulger spent five years creating it.
The new light bulb aims to give “sustainable design sex appeal”, according to Nicolas Roope, creative director at Hulger, and allegedly gives off two forms of light a more useful, downward spotlight to illuminate worktops and dinner tables, and a more ambient golden glow for the surrounding environment.
The soft glow is achieved through a gold element in the centre of the light bulb, which actually makes people “look more beautiful”, according to Plumen.
At £150 a pop, it's not cheap but can last for 10,000 hours before it blows. You can find out more information here.
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US one sheet for KISSES FOR MY PRESIDENT (Curtis Bernhardt, USA, 1964)
Designer: unknown
Poster source: Film/Art Gallery
Fringe-lipped bat close-up (Alexander T. Baugh)
Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but with human-generated noise on the rise, scientists are examining how bats and other animals might adapt to find their next meal. According to a new study, when noise masks the mating calls of the bat's prey, túngara frogs, the bat shifts to another sensory mode—echolocation.
Echolocation is a way of sensing objects and movement by scanning the environment with high frequency sounds and evaluating the reflections. Studying the ability or inability of animals to shift sensory modes could be important in understanding how to protect threatened or endangered species.
The work appears this week in the journal Science.
This video shows a fringe-lipped bat attacking a robotic frog with and without pieces of fish added as a reward. (Video by Barrett Klein and Andy Quitmeyer)
“If there's just one person talking and it's quiet, all we have to do is listen with our ears,” says Ryan. “But if there are more and more people talking, we have to be looking at them to figure out what each person is saying. So we have to recruit this other sensory channel we have, our eyes, to help us figure out what we're hearing.”
In this case, the bats are shifting from detecting one kind of sound—the low frequency mating calls produced by the frogs—to the high frequency sounds emitted by the bat to navigate and hunt with echolocation. Unfortunately for the frogs, when they produce mating calls, they're really sending two signals: the sound intended to attract females and the movement of their vocal sacs, which inflate quickly like a balloon.
Former Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute intern Dylan Gomes releases a Jamaican fruit-eating bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) in Soberanía National Park, Panama, on June 6, 2014. (Photo by Sean Mattson / Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
The researchers speculate that predators that can shift their sensory mode will do better in noisy environments, and this in turn might alter the long-term success of specific predator and prey species.
“Our study ties together behavior, sensory ecology and conservation,” says Dylan Gomes, the lead author who conducted the research during an internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. “As sources of anthropogenic noise continue to expand, animals will ultimately have to face noise in one way or another.”
Research into the effects of human-generated noise on animal behavior has primarily focused on birds and whales, says Gomes, who is now a Fulbright scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. The impact of noise on bats, however, is a relatively new field of study.
The team used two robotic frogs that precisely mimic the calls and vocal sac expansion of the túngara frog. The robofrogs were placed inside a flight cage with the fringe-lipped bat. One robofrog played the frog's distinct mating call, with the other playing the call and expanding its robotic vocal sac. When the researchers played a masking noise over the call, the hunting bat's echolocation activity increased and it more often attacked the frog emitting both signals than the frog emitting just mating calls. Without the masking sound, the bat attacked both frogs equally.
“We show how animals can adapt to increased noise levels by making use of their other senses, which has important implications for other species that try to find prey, avoid predators or attract mates in human-impacted environments,” says Wouter Halfwerk, a professor at VU University Amsterdam and a former postdoctoral researcher in Ryan's lab.
Halfwerk helped design the experiment and was Gomes' co-adviser. Smithsonian Tupper fellow Inga Geipel, who specializes in echolocation and studies how bats navigate and hunt in the rain, contributed her technical expertise to the research. The study was carried out under the guidance of STRI staff scientist Rachel Page, and Ryan, a long-time STRI research associate. Page worked previously as a graduate student in Ryan's lab.
Funding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
(SOURCE: UTNews)
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in partnership with parley and MOCA, aitken plans three temporary subaquatic sculptures to form a dialogue between marine conservation and art.
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William Kentridge comes to the Whitechapel, Zaha Hadid's successor speaks and we rule on a cultural showdown between London and Paris all in your weekly dispatch
William Kentridge: Thick Time
Time and memory, history and politics are the stuff of the acclaimed South African animator's recent works.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 September-15 January.
William Kentridge comes to the Whitechapel, Zaha Hadid's successor speaks and we rule on a cultural showdown between London and Paris all in your weekly dispatch
William Kentridge: Thick Time
Time and memory, history and politics are the stuff of the acclaimed South African animator's recent works.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 September-15 January.
Frith Street Gallery, London
The former Turner prize nominee's portrait of the painter toys with truth and artifice as cleverly as her first foray into theatre with actor Stephen Dillane
Sitting in his Los Angeles studio, David Hockney looks at the wall and smokes. For the last couple of years, Tacita Dean has also been living in LA, where she got to know the painter, whose portrait of Dean's son Rufus hangs in the blurry distance of Dean's filmed portrait of Hockney. Rufus, in waistcoat and tie, notebook and pencil in hand, gives Hockney a serious painted stare.
Contemplating something out of shot, smoking in his comfy armchair, Hockney is surrounded by the portraits that currently fill the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy in London. Unless he is acting the role of spectator or sitter, or the painter thinking, as he smokes and smokes, lighting up and stubbing out, rolling his tongue around his mouth Hockney has stopped thinking about the camera.
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Continue reading...The artist's renowned 1998 installation My Bed which she always builds herself is about to go on show at Tate Liverpool
Tracey Emin throws her knickers on to the bed. She's not quite satisfied, so she retrieves them and has another go. It takes five increasingly athletic throws and a lot of laughing until the pale blue underwear is in just the right state of casual abandon. For this is no ordinary bed. It is THE bed.
The bed that Count Christian Duerckheim bought for £2,546,500 from Christies in 2014 and has loaned to the Tate. The bed that has become the most enduring icon of 1990s British art, now that Damien Hirst's poorly preserved shark looks like a shrivelled nautical antiquity. My Bed, as Emin's 1998 readymade is titled, is set to go on display at Tate Liverpool, bringing its freight of vodka bottles, used tissues and fag butts to the north-west for the first time, and initiating a unique artistic ritual.
Related: Does Tracey Emin's bed still have the power to shock?
Continue reading...skyscrapers seem to be flattened from their original form and propped up on metal and wooden frames.
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This effervescent book contains the latest thinking on the African origins of Homo sapiens and asks what our genes can really tell us
In trying to categorise a new arrival in the film Mean Girls one character asks: “if you're from Africa, how come you're white?” The mean girl cannot have been paying attention in class, because, as Adam Rutherford reminds us so elegantly in his latest book, we are all African originally. The only homo sapiens on the planet 100,000 years ago were in Africa.
The mean girl can be forgiven her ignorance, since the way many of us (lay people and professionals alike) have been taught about our origins is flawed. The neat family trees and branch lines charting the steady progress of evolution, and those ubiquitous illustrations of the ascent of humans, in which we evolve step by step from bent-over apes to straight-backed homo sapiens, are not just simplistic, they are a profound misshaping of the truth.
Rutherford argues that rather than halting the advance of gene science, we all need to have our genomes sequenced
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