A the Lexus installation at the Salone del Mobile there was an interesting installation about generation of mesh structures which provided hints for their eventual re-generation and re-use. The chair above was manufactured using a 3D printer from 2kg of fused Nylon powder. As part of the exhibition a series of models depicted how the […]
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mesh and re-mesh
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creative commons kiosk
Last week at the Fuori Salone the most memorable event was designersblock: held at a dilapidated public pool in Milan’s Tortona neighborhood, it featured booths by designers and collectives organized under the London-based design collaborative. One of the exhibitors was KithKin’s “Some Rights Reserved,” a kiosk offering creative commons-licensed digital wares at low low prices […]
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edible utensils
we’ve seen edible cups, and now edible spoons made of bread by tim simpson. there’s something elegant about making everything that touches your mouth edible, and certainly it’s more sustainable than plastic spoons. but how long do they last?
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grandma-net
humanbeans‘ latest project is what’s cooking grandma, a social network for sharing your grandmother’s cooking through youtube videos. it serves as a recipe website, a social network and a nice way to herald oft-neglected domestic work.
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design for the (tech-savvy) masses
design democracy is a yearly competition based on the belief that mass customization is a viable alternative to mass production. unlike ponoko, this competition is based on free trade in design patterns that you can then make yourself at your local highly computerized wood shop. but given that finding and manufacturing this kind of product […]
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carpet tag
Construction is immaculate in Japan – every thing is perfectly cut, fitted, joined. It is so perfect that the builders are willing to be associated with their work. Every carpeted room (I saw) features a little tag, the size of a postage stamp, screwed into the corner of the carpeting. The tag bears the name […]
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machine sculpture
florian claar’s fragment no. 5 – ‘caverna lunaris’ – is displayed in the sculpture garden of tokyo midtown, the most beautiful mall in the world. the enormous sculpture is manufactured to incredible tolerances out of bolted pieces of machined aluminum, an enormous fragment of a toroidal form rugged and ribbed on the inside but soft […]
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spinning streetlights
yesterday i stopped by the panasonic center in tokyo and i saw these graceful solar and wind-powered streetlights – so-called ‘seagulls.’ they generate power during the day, storing it in a battery at the base of the light pole, and illuminate at night while continuing to generate wind power. although it seems unlikely that they […]
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