Collection: HOST for your living things
Title: CACTUS (Flea)
Role: Concept, Research, Design, Production
Description: HOST graphics are inspired by beauty that is invisible to the naked eye. The CACTUS graphic is made from details of a flea’s armour.
The invention of the microscope over 400 years ago and the electron microscope in 1931 revolutionized the way we see the World. Previously invisible to the naked-eye, ultramicroscopic objects (less than a millionth of a meter) could now be observed and recognized – forever changing our visible landscape.
Items with the CACTUS graphic are accompanied with product tags that share some interesting facts about fleas, such as:
• a flea is a parasite • fleas are wingless, but can jump +30cm or 12 inches, which is approximately 200X their own body length - nearly the equivalent of a person jumping 350 meters.
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The word HOST refers to an organism/cell in or on which another lives/feeds - and thus, a symbiotic, co-dependant relationship that assists one/both to survive.
There are many types of intimate relationships between organisms that are characterized by co-dependence for survival – ‘symbiosis’ describes the various degrees of intimate relationships between organism, which include: an organism living on another (ectosymbiosis), or inside another (endosymbiosis) or necessary to the survival of at least one partner (obligate symbiosis).
HOST is an invitation to WEAR THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD.