Three years ago, leaders at Northwestern Engineering and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art had an idea— to directly engage artists with engineers by embedding an Artist-at-Large with the ...

Julio M. Ottino (NAE) is dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P.

Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. The ...

What prompted the idea for the course? After a serious injury in 2016, I started drawing and painting during my recovery as a form of self-taught art therapy. I found the experience transformative.

Art has changed. It is no longer just the way we have expected it to be - provocative, beautiful or both. Over the past century, art has been bestowed with hi-tech engineering and suddenly this ...

A songbird lies on bare concrete, its golden feathers askew. It twitches, chirps weakly. After several seconds, it falls silent and goes still. This tragic scene doesn’t play out on a sidewalk. The ...

Aston Martin's Marek Reichman is a fascinating character in the hard-nosed world of the automotive industry, a rockstar designer who's been elevated to the position of Chief Creative Officer as well ...

Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor is famous for his architectural sculptures and vivid use of colour. His works are also feats of engineering — his speciality at university before he left to ...