27:T48e,The angular patterns used in Jonathan Simkhaiâ€™s ready-to-wear Spring Summer 2015 collection are inspired by fragments of shattered glass. An entire field of research called â€œfracture mechanicsâ€ explores the propagation of cracks in materials. By performing controlled impact studies of projectiles at plates of glass, researchers have determined that the number of radial cracks around the impact point can be predicted from projectile speed and plate thickness. In forensic science, the application of fracture mechanicsÂ can be used to determine the trajectory and velocity of bullets by analyzing the cracks formed in windshields or glass after the projectile impacts with the surface. This type of research is also done to test the strength of advanced materials. In the GIF above, filmed at GEâ€™s Global Research Center, aÂ glass jar shattersÂ under 5,000 lbs. of force. Advanced materials, like the ceramics that go into GE jet engines, have to pass this rigorous test. While everyday objects shatter, these advanced materials are designed to take the pressure. -Â Chris Ing,Â freshphotons.comÂ | #iOnFashion, NYFW 2014Â 28:T738,

"I tried to maintain some freshness by shifting what it is I’m looking at in order to create a different process of looking at something that would give me a new kind of interpretation."
—Tim Hawkinson

Artist Tim Hawkinson, our current 100 Artists featured artist, explores several themes consisting of music, sounds, expression, and even his own body. As shown here, Hawkinson combines his face and facial expressions in a mechanized sculpture, Emoter (2002), which was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2002. “It’s something that emotes and it’s motorized and it is an emoter.”

The complexity of his work does not stop there. His use of machines an

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