Colorful, see-through solar cells invented at the University of Michigan could one day be used to make stained-glass windows

Transparent, color, solar cells.  The 'stained glass' bit is a little funny, but this is really cool technology.

Nominations for Glass Magazine Awards

Glass Magazine is now accepting nominations for the 2013 Glass Magazine Awards: The People, Products and Projects. The prestigious glass and metal industry awards program recognizes the most innovative products and services the industry has to offer, in addition to the most innovative projects completed within the past year. It also names winners for Best Project Manager, Best Production Supervisor, Best Sales Rep and Best Installer. Submit your nominations at www.glassmagazine.com/2013awards. The deadline for nominations in all categories is April 16, 2013. If you have questions or require additional information, please contact Jenni Chase at jchase@glass.org.

LED installation in Madrid

From the Blog: INHABITAT/Design will save the world:
Madrid's festive season gets a colorful start thanks to a wonderful new installation by Italian designer Teresa Sapey. Commissioned by the city as part of an annual tradition to brighten up Madrid's streets during the holiday season, Sapey opted for row after row of circular LED lights in every color imaginable that warm up a relatively featureless part of the Spanish capital

Read more: Swirling LED Lights on a High Fashion Street Kick off the Festive Season in Madrid Teresa Sapey Christmas Lights in Madrid – Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building 

Solar Glass Generates Power Through Your Windows

These window panes, which were unveiled at Taipei’s International Optoelectronics Week, do double duty to block out the elements and create energy for your home. They are slightly foggy and can seemingly replace home or commercial windows.

Read more: http://inhabitat.com/solar-glass-generates-power-through-your-windows/

Nick Sayers

After falling down the rabbit hole doing a web search on sacred geometry and the platonic solids I stumbled upon the Flickr stream of the artist Nick Sayers. Enjoy this!
Read his story about:

Polyhedral Patcham Pupils

On 30 March 2012, I ran a maths-art workshop at Patcham House School, as part of their Maths Day.

In a one-hour workshop, children pinned 12 pre-made, machine-cut plastic silhouettes of themselves together with plastic cocktail sticks, to form polyhedral shapes with tetrahedral symmetry.

The pieces were created in advance. The children lay on a green screen and were photographed from the stairs above. I then took these images, processed them in Photoshop and turned them into cutting files.

They were cut by the very capable Mark at Brighton & Hove Plastics in Portslade.

More images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksayers/sets/72157629540305162/with/6969613482/

Corning Video: A Day Made of Glass 2

Corning "unpacks' the technology promised in their popular video "A Day Made of Glass". Here's another example that makes me question why my school teaching Spanish to my children rather than teaching them to speak English with a "British" accent. Corning vision: "Brilliant"

ARTICLE: Innovation through Art

If Design’s No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?

• By John Maeda President of Rhode Island School of Design

"What people are looking for now is a way to reconnect with their values: to ground how they can, will, and should live in the world.

The innovation now needs to occur elsewhere. Outside the design. Into, quite frankly, the world of art."

READ the Article:http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/09/so-if-designs-no-longer-the-killer-differentiator-what-is/

Civic Space, Sacred Space, and the Cathedral of Christ the Light

How might a cathedral, conceived in the 21st century, within a rapidly changing Pacific Rim setting, possess the cultural integrity and the power to inspire that define the great European cathedrals? How might a new cathedral speak to contemporary culture while honoring two millennia of Christian tradition? And more specifically, how might this new cathedral provide a meaningful setting for both spiritual renewal and civic discourse in its immediate community, the city of Oakland?
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://faithandform.com/feature/light-and-shadow/

Corning: What do you know about Gemmaux ?

The recent discovery of a Gemmaux panel by Picasso which was to be auctioned this year
https://guernseys.com/Guernseys%20New/picasso.html
has spurred a renewed interest in the process.

We have a bibliography on the topic, but little printed information on the actual technique.
However, we do not know of anyone doing this work after the 1990s.  One of the primary studios was run by Roger Malherbe-Navarre, who is deceased, I think.  Jean-Paul Sala-Malherbe [probably a relative] demonstrated some of the technique at a current exhibition in France ("Tableaux de verre, verres de lumière", at the Halle du Verre, in Claret (Languedoc-Roussillon), but that is all that I have immediately found.

There are a few you tube videos, but they are in French.

If anyone can add to our information about printed information on technique, or a list of artists currently working with gemmaux, we would be very grateful.  And, of course, if anyone wants a copy of the bibliography (currently being updated), please contact me directly.



Gail P. Bardhan
Reference & Research Librarian
Rakow Library
Corning Museum of Glass
5 Museum Way
Corning NY 14830
Telephone 607-438-5315
Email   bardhangp@cmog.org

Software could reconstruct medieval mosaics

Project to conserve Coventry’s 5,000 stained-glass fragments—some believed to be the work of a master

By Robert Bevan. Conservation, Issue 237, July-August 2012
Published online: 05 July 2012

The pieces were stored next to the cathedral’s boiler

Experimental software developed to reassemble Cold War documents may soon shed light on the mysteries surrounding around 5,000 medieval stained-glass fragments from Coventry Cathedral, as well as on the work of John Thornton, one of England’s greatest stained-glass artists. The British arm of the World Monuments Fund is funding a project to prevent the glass from deteriorating.

More:http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Software-could-reconstruct-medieval-mosaics/26758

Electronically tintable dynamic glass

http://sageglass.com/sageglass/

Artful Intelligence: How "Smart Windows" and "Dynamic Glass" Can Save Energy

BY DAVID ZAX

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

A manufacturer of auto-tinting windows just nabbed another $10 million in financing. Is this the future of glass?

In the future, those glass windows on your office building might also be able to beat IBM's Watson at Jeopardy. That's how smart glass is getting. 

Soladigm, manufacturers of auto-tinting "smart glass," nabbed $10 million in equity financing, building off a recent $30 million round in December.

The notion of "smart glass" might at first seem a bit excessive. We demand intelligence from our partners, our friends, our colleagues, and lately our phones, but windows are not an entity that seem to necessitate smartness.

There's a simple reason why smart, or "dynamic," glass matters, though. It saves energy. When normal old "dumb" windows welcome in the noonday sun, buildings bake. But Soladigm's electrochromics glass automatically adjusts its tint, helping regulate the temperature of a building and thereby reducing cooling (or heating) costs. The company claims its windows can reduce heating and cooling usage by a quarter. That's one reason why the company was named a winner of GE's Ecomagination challenge last year.

Soladigm has competitors, including the Saint-Gobain-backed Sage. And we recently looked at a company, Peer+, that manufactures a different kind of "smart glass"--windows thatdouble as solar panels, generating electricity themselves. Imagine, then, if the two joined forces to make "genius glass" that both saves energy and generates it.

Video: Ed Carpenter

Site/Light from Ed Carpenter on Vimeo.

Ed Carpenter's Website: http://www.edcarpenter.net/home/home.html

Bullseye Reaction Chart

Reactivity Information at Your Fingertips Bullseye Glass Co. is proud to announce a (literally) handy new reference tool: This full-color, 8.5' x 11' chart is easy to use, allowing you to quickly determine how the glasses you're working with might react. Best of all, you can download the chart at no charge and print as many copies as you need. (Students in our Resource Centers tell us they're laminating theirs and hanging them in their studios.) Download yours today Get the reaction you want (and avoid a reaction you don't) with the "Reactive Potential of Bullseye Glass" chart. Because sometimes going online just isn't convenient.* *When going online is convenient, reactivity information is also available on Bullseye's GlassTips online reference.** **Speaking of great technical resources, don't forget Bullseye Glass Studio, our free iOS app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Includes access to our complete library of technical documents, an annealing calculator, a temperature and rate converter, and much more! Bullseye Glass Co. is a leader in promoting glass art worldwide through quality production of colored glass for art and architecture, research and education, and the presentation of innovative glass art in its Portland gallery.

Glass Build America: Sept 12-14, 2012

GlassBuild America 2012 will be held September 12–14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.  It will again serve as the most important annual gathering of North American glass industry professionals.  The show will feature more than 120,000 square feet of exhibit space, nearly 330 exhibiting companies, industry leading forums, seminars and expert panel presentations, the popular Innovative Product Pavilion, and several of the industry’s most respected speakers.

For more information on GlassBuild America, visit www.GlassBuildAmerica.com.

Amazing LCD Glass Installation

Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (naturalsciences.org) for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time.

10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.

Live small

Interesting exercise. It's a 7 minute video, so get a snack first.

Furnace Solutions/ Conference Announced

FURNACE SOLUTIONS 7 sponsored by the Society of Glass Technology

Furnace Solutions 7 will be held on Thursday 14th June 2012.

The Furnace Solutions conferences have now become a regular fixture in the glassmaking calendar.

Last year’s sell out meeting hosted almost 100 participants – one third of whom were from outside the UK - reflecting the increasing international interest in this unique event. The annual Furnace Solutions conferences deal entirely with ‘practical’ glassmaking issues and are targeted at glassmakers, furnace equipment and specialist materials suppliers. The conference’s informal format allows delegates to share their experiences, and discuss solutions to some of today’s glass melting challenges.

Website link: http://www.furnacesolutions.co.uk/Index.html

Through a glass, clearly - MIT News Office

MIT researchers find a way to make glass that’s anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare.
Read the whole article here:Through a glass, clearly - MIT News Office

Emerge 2012

The finalists and award winners have been announced for Emerge 2012, Bullseye’s seventh international kiln-glass exhibition for students and early-career artists.

More:http://www.bullseyeglass.com/welcome-to-emerge.html

Architectural Decorative Glass

http://www.pulpstudio.com/