Visual Broadcast
Quite apart from being the Empire’s greatest leader, it turns out Darth Vader was also a rather expensive commodity, with his suit costing over $18 million. According to Shade Station, who apparently spend their days working these things out when they’re not shifting Chanel sunglasses, a real-life equivalent of Darth Vader’s suit would cost an...
Instagram is now the second biggest social network in the world. Boasting more than 400 million average monthly users, the photo-sharing platform that was responsible for the resurgence of the...
Photochrom, invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid, an employee of Swiss printing company Orell Gessner Füssli, was one of the early techniques for colourising black and white negatives....
Anna Kövecses is a Hungarian-born graphic designer living in sunny Cyprus. She spends her days creating cheerful editorial illustrations using simplified collage techniques and a warm, friendly colour palette. With...
Visionary Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid passed away last week, leaving a legacy of incredible buildings such as the amorphous, sweeping curves of the lauded London Aquatics Centre, and futuristic plans...
Back in 2012, artist David Blackmore set himself the seemingly impossible challenge of walking from Mizen Head in the south of Ireland to Malin Head at the northernmost point, without...
Anyone with a keen interest in photography will know that a simple pinhole camera can be constructed from a whole host of household objects. And, providing the basic principles of...
The ancient Chinese game of Go was considered by many to be too complicated for a computer to master. When international Go champion Lee Sedol was first asked to compete...
German photographer Sebastian Erras has travelled to some of the most beautiful cities in the world; Paris, Vienna, and Rome to name a few. And while the vast majority of...
The process of recruiting a new employee is not without its problems, and can be a costly gamble for businesses large and small. A recent study found that 25% of...
Animation is a laborious process whichever way you choose to go about it, but producing twelve original oil paintings to create a mere second of footage is a method that...
