Awesome. Easy to transport and relatively cheap to produce. I can imagine spending a lot fewer nights staying awake cut-pasting mountboard sheets to create sub-standard models that professors would hardly glance at.
Tag Archives: models
Tiny Dioramas of an Abandoned World
Fine-art photographer Lori Nix is adding her eerie vision to the mix with an exhibition called “The City” — in which “public spaces devoted to history and science lie deteriorating and neglected while nature slowly takes them back.” The twist is that Nix’s photos aren’t Photoshop manipulations — they’re real images of tiny, painstakingly detailed dioramas that Nix has designed just for these photographs.
Now on display at New York’s ClampArt Gallery until December 18, and then at Chicago’s Catherine Edelman Gallery from January 7 to February 26, 2011
Corner Mod Office
Gives a new reason to work from home in your own “corner office” [via 2Modern Blog]
Biggest Little Cities
Model cities aren’t just for show; they can have real utility. In 1957 the US Army Corps of Engineers created the Bay Model, a replica of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta meant to simulate the impact of public works projects and disasters—natural and man-made—on currents and tides.
Terence Russell at Wired Magazine tells us how scale models of cities are increasingly used for urban planning and design applications.