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Crafting Radiolaria Sculptures – from microscopic life to art

11.20.2025

We’ve created a set of 4 limited edition Radiolarian sculptures that are now available in our shop. These limited edition sculptures are inspired…

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collaboration

We’re Starting a Patreon!

07.15.2024

We’ve decided to start a Patreon, where you can get a subscription to… well us! It seems long overdue to have some way…

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art

Xylem Arbor

04.05.2024

We recently created our first large scale public artwork. Soaring to a height of 120′, Xylem Arbor is an aggregation of bent metal…

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art

Corollaria Gyroid for Albany Airport

10.19.2023

Corollaria Gyroid is a sculpture created by Nervous System for the Albany International Airport which explores the connections between mathematics and the natural…

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art

Yellow Moon Gyroid

10.06.2022

Yellow moon gyroid is a sculpture we created to honor the work of mathematician Alan Schoen. It is now permanently installed at the…

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architecture

Corollaria Railing

11.27.2020

When we moved to the Catskills and built our new studio, we splurged on one item in our construction: a railing that acts…

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3dprinting

Nervous System collaborates on new 3D-printed organ research published on cover of Science

05.02.2019

We founded Nervous System in 2007 with the goal of adapting algorithms and strategies from nature into new ways to design products; but…

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Geode, Maze, and Custom Jigsaw Puzzles

10.24.2017

Geode is the latest fiendishly difficult jigsaw puzzle from “the monsters” who created the Infinite Galaxy Puzzle (that’s us!). It features a new…

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3dprinting

MoMA Acquires First Kinematics Dress

12.09.2014

We have created the first dress with Kinematics, our 4D printing system for generating complex, foldable forms. The Museum of Modern Art has…

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software / 03.12.2012

Cell Cycle – technical details

For a while now, we’ve been wanting to switch our online apps from Java applets to HTML5. Applets are simply an outdated technology…

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3dprinting / 03.09.2012

Cell Cycle webGL design app

We’re excited to announce the release of a new Cell Cycle app! It’s a major upgrade from the previous Java applet and runs…

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thoughts / 02.13.2012

Re: The Algorithm Thought Police

Earlier today Marius Watz posted some thoughts on “computational cliches” aka overused, well-known algorithms that make pretty things without much work. I largely…

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inspiration / 02.09.2012

Fossilized – the patterns of glyptodon shells

Glyptodons are the extinct ancestors of modern day armadillos.  These giant mammals roamed the Americas from 2.5 million years ago until just as…

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design / 02.06.2012

Barnacles! – our NYIGF 2012 booth

Every time we do a show, it is an opportunity to make something crazy and big. For this year’s New York International Gift…

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news / 12.13.2011

Nervous System Holiday Ordering Deadlines

Don’t worry! There’s still time to pick up one of our Small Seed Lamps, a Sterling Silver Bamboo Cuff, or anything else from our…

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education / 11.29.2011

Nervous System @ CMU Design

Special thanks to Terry Irwin, Golan Levin and Jeremy Ficca for organizing our trip earlier this month to visit Carnegie Mellon University.  We…

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3dprinting / 11.28.2011

new: the Cellular Pendant

Cell Cycle, our first line of 3d-printed jewelry, was introduced in 2009 and originally only consisted of bangle bracelets and rings. Earlier this…

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sale / 11.28.2011

Holiday Sale! and a gift guide

In honor of the release of our housewares collection, Reaction, we’re having a holiday sale.  Use the coupon code REACTION to get 15%…

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inspiration / 11.25.2011

Becoming Lichenized

Recently, my friend Shaunalynn Duffy asked me to give a talk at a Sprout event centered around Fungi. Specifically she was interested in…

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