Collection: HOST for your living things
Title: STING (Honey Bee)
Role: Concept, Research, Design, Production
Description: HOST graphics are inspired by beauty that is invisible to the naked eye. The STING graphic is made from microscopic details of a honey bee.
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 STING graphic are accompanied with product tags that share some interesting facts about honey bees, such as:
• a mass of approximately 500 bees vibrating together can kill an intruder by heating it to death • one pound of honey takes 556 worker bees and 2 million flowers to make • pollinators such as bees, birds and bats affect 35% of the world’s food crop production • honey bees have existed for 30 millions years
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The word ‘HOST’ refers to an organism/cell in or on which another lives/feeds; and thus, refers to a symbiotic, codependent relationship that assists one/both to survive.
There are many types of intimate relationships between organisms that are characterized by codependence 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.