Nature Conservation: Massive Butterfly Genome Project

Article Summary 845 butterfly genomes have been sequenced, these include all the butterflies of the United States and Canada! Armed with the data, evolutionary biologists set out to create a tree that tracts the relationship between all the species Isn’t that such a cool graphic?! This is my favourite part of Genetics = phylogenetic trees! […]

Free Mood Boards: Big Cat Themed

I am going to provide 3 free Mood Boards, specifically focused around big wild cats! Mood boards are color palettes generated from images for design inspiration and coordinated themes. For a more in-depth look at mood boards, please see Free Mood Board: Dahlia Pink & Yellow Graphic Design Resources. Other Free Mood Boards include: Cacti […]

Deep Sea Explorations Interactive Graphic

Just Keep Swimmin’ or Scrollin’ in this case Reference The Deep Sea @ Neal.fun

Duotone Effect & Free Mood Boards: Iceland Horses

For today’s graphic design experimentation we are following on the Original Icelandic Horses Mood Board created in the previous post and we going to look at Duotone Effects. I will provide a Mood Board for the duotone image at the end of the post. All images in this post are free to use for your […]

Free Mood Boards: Horse Themed

I am going to provide 3 free Mood Boards, specifically focused around horses! Mood boards are color palettes generated from images for design inspiration and coordinated themes. For a more in-depth look at mood boards, please see Free Mood Board: Dahlia Pink & Yellow Graphic Design Resources. Other Free Mood Boards include: Cacti Spirals, Mandala […]

Nature Conservation: DNA Detective for Endangered Species

Article Summary The presence of an endangered Australian bird species, the Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae), was detected by trace DNA from a frequented watering hole. It has been established that large animal and plants can leave enough trace DNA in their environment to be able to track their presence in a given location. Water bodies […]

Nature Conservation: Coral Reef Restoration with 3D printing!

Article Summary Global temperature rises in the ocean cause coral reefs to expel their symbiotic algae, which give them nourishment. Afterwards they bleach, starve and die 50% of global coral reefs have expired Conservationists from Mote and other institutions are planting out lab-grown and naturally genetically resistant/robust corals between remnants of remaining reefs. These grow, […]

Nature Conservation: The 100 million Euro Action Plan for Declining Insect Populations of Germany

A reported 76% loss of insect biomass has occurred over the last 3 decades. This prompted the federal government to announce a €100 million “action plan for insect protection” Their nine-point plan includes recommendations from leading entomologists: Protection of insect-rich habitats, such as the semi-wild fruit orchards and stone walls of the countryside Phasing out […]

Happy New Year! Free Mood Boards: Pink & Yellow Dahlia

I have recently decided to improve my art & design skills through some Udemy online courses for my own personal development and amusement. During these courses they give you little side projects to practice various design theories and techniques. The current course I have recently completed “The Complete Graphic Design Theory for Beginners Course created […]

Phyllotaxis: Maths creates Beauty & Symmetry in Nature + Free Collages & Mood Boards

Last year I started experimenting with mathematical formulas and data algorithms to generate art, specifically using code scripts created in R. The first time I stumbled upon math art in R was when I saw the phyllotaxis patterns project on DataCamp created by the Mathematician A. Chinchón last year sometime. He maintains an extensive blog […]