Artistic Installation

Learn to fly! Build one of these simple kites and reach for the skies.

The Berlin-based artist’s interactive environments stretch the imagination to great new heights

Dezeen promotion: the Spanish Confederation of Wood, Confemadera, present a selection of projects by Spanish architects and designers that use wood creatively. Captions and the following text are from Confemadera: “The only way to be original is to return to our roots” – Antoni Gaudí. Wood is a rare sort of material that can inspire both cutting-edge

Oobject put together a neat compilation of the famous telephone inventor's love for tetrahedrons. Scroll down to see his collection of pyramids, building towers, buildings, boats, kites and planes—all made completely out of tiny tetrahedrons. Amazing.

Some very interesting kites at the Rijsbergse vliegerdagen. Some more pictures at picasaweb. A nice pair of Jan Van Leuwen An other one of Jan Markus & Katja Flender's Saul’s Barrage Kite...originally used as advertising scheme just before the worldwar II. During the war well known as an anti-aircraft device flown from merchant ships. Ivo van Olmen, Belgium flag -deltas (next time I hope to take a picture of the 3 colors together)

Tomás Saraceno, Solar Bell L, 2013 tubi in fibra di carbonio, fogli solari laminati, alluminio.

Little Shining Man by Heather and Ivan Morison 23 December 2011

Heather and Ivan Morison have utilized 3D printing technology to create a beautiful geometric sculpture that doubles as a kite. It is comprised of over 23,000 pieces held together by 3D-printed nylon connectors. Built in conjunction with London Reading

alexander graham bell cygnet kite

Alexander Graham Bell's kites looked like bizarre UFOs

Ebon Heath is a talented wordsmith, but not by the typical definition. The master of words creates laser-cut sculptures that bring life to letters that

ETH Zurich - Architecture und Digital Fabrication

Cubic Kite Flying Sculpture Shining Man

Little Shining Man by Heather and Ivan Morison

Photography by Camilo Brau, © Studio Tomás Saraceno 2013

Popular Science Monthly/Volume 64/December 1903/The Tetrahedral Kites of Dr Alexander Graham Bell - Wikisource, the free online library