To be fair, The Creators Project has a litany of favorite artists and, well, creators, but one name that's continuously stuck out this past fall is Daan Roosegaarde, head of Studio Roosegaarde.The Netherlands-based design firm has caught the attention of others, and this past weekend the innovator won the World Technology Award in the Arts category at the TIME Conference Center.He was nominated by a selected jury of Time, Fortune, Science and The Technology Review for this international honor. Other winners include electric car company, Tesla, and Eric Schmidt from Google.
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Roosegaarde has created numerous mind-blowing projects in the past few years, including a "Smart Highway" that uses solar power to light up the road, an illuminated bike path using LED-enhanced glowing stones, and a project that plans to turn Chinese Smog into wearable jewelry.
A sample image of the "Smart Highway"
Roosegarde's real-world interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night," an illuminated bike path built where Van Gogh lived in the Eindhoven region of the Netherlands
The team's famous glowing stones that are embedded with LEDs and flicker on when people interact with them
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