Everywhere we look, manmade things and technology have historically found inspiration from natural elements of this world. From animals to plants, I analyze technological advancements that “feel” or “look” like elements from nature (as silly as my conclusions might be). Smartphone: Like a brain, the smartphone acts as a computing Read more…
Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) is a sculpture park and museum which has a bunch of cool outdoor installations and exhibitions. GFS is located in my hometown of Hamilton, New Jersey—only about 50 miles away from Philadelphia. Hamilton, a suburb of Trenton, is also close to Princeton University. I remember passing Read more…
Cope & Stewardson was an architecture firm that consisted of Walter Cope and John Stewardson, who worked during the years 1885–1912 to design buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style at notable institutions such as Penn. They have designed buildings at other Philadelphia-area and Northeast universities, such as Bryn Mawr College Read more…
Vexillography, defined as the design of flags, is an important but often overlooked part of global and cultural identities. The United States flag, for instance, has gone through many different iterations of its flag design, resulting in its current iteration with 50 stars and 13 stripes. But, like many territories Read more…
Henryk Berlewi, who lived from 1894–1967, was born in Warsaw, Poland and engaged in the creation of art for his entire life. He was a proponent of the Russian avant-garde movement in the early 20th century, alongside other Jewish and non-Jewish artists in Europe. His life, largely obscure because of Read more…