No Comments - Published December 31st, 2009 in Inspirations
20 Dizzying Designs
It’s New Year’s Eve and heads will soon be spinning! So start the New Year with spirals, swirls, laser-cut loops and concentric circles. Twenty designs from fashion and jewelry to toys and tools after the jump.
A nice graphic pattern created by overlapping laser-cut circles.
Keep track of the new year with the endless Ring [...]
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make your own game
Spikenzie Labs is sharing the design files of a sleek take on the classic game Connect Four over at Thingiverse. The stand and two sets of checkers can be made from 5 sheets of acrylic. Maker Mark Demers shows off his version in blue, black, white, and translucent. Totally museum store worthy!
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UC Berkeley student creates DASH
The cockroach is a notorious survivor, and the latest robot from the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at University of California Berkeley is following in the insect’s six footsteps. Built by graduate student Paul Birkmeyer, the Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexpod aka DASH is laser-cut from a single sheet of polymer sandwiched between two [...]
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Sculptor Jon Barlow Hudson has received a commission to design the Miami Valley Firefighters Memorial. Tens of thousands of dollars have been raised by the local community to start construction on the public work entitled ‘Fire Wall’.
The memorial will not be the typical heroic bronze. The design of ‘Fire Wall’ features the silhouette of a [...]
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These very lovely inlaid works are by antebellumdisco on flickr. They appear to made of acrylic and seem to be part of a series.
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We talked about them before, in fact they sat down for an interview. The Scarf above, available from their Etsy.com store, is called Verdi and shows a selected measure by the composer.
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laser-cut golf apparel
Nike has incorporated strategic laser-cut designs to enhance player performance in their Sphere Macro React line of men and women’s golf apparel. The techy shirts feature laser-cut vents that open when the player sweats and close when dry. This kind of über-functionality strikes me as particularly biomimetic.
For more on the evolution of textiles, [...]
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by RandomWalkDesignLab
This happy creature maybe shouldn’t be. He’s a broken branch on the evolutionary tree. Sea monster, dinosaur, walrus? What is he exactly? One things for sure, he makes a damn good lamp. Available in black and white.
Interestingly this is a self-assembly item and directions will be included but they also recommend a couple of [...]
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by Sruli Recht
r¿ng is a 10carat white gold Möbius band with a hand tapped 16gauge internal [female] thread to receive three uncut rough diamonds set individually into screw-in external thread-form propeller claws.
Housed in a 215-piece hand-painted box with threaded lid for safekeeping the 6.86 carat total weight over three different diamonds*. [Black 3.53ct / White [...]
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Think Inside the Box
Paperpod have produced a range of environmentally friendly, cost effective, sturdy, and practical designs made from recycled corrugated cardboard. From their range of chairs to the toy fort, dolls house and play house, the beauty lies in their simplicity. They are a blank canvas for children to play, create & decorate using [...]
