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A Design Professor's Clever 3 D-Printed Two-Part Wire Bending Jig
17+ hour, 26+ min ago (172+ words) Core77 A Design Professor's Clever 3 D-Printed Two-Part Wire Bending Jig Phil Renato is a Product Design professor at Ferris State University's Kendall College of Art and Design, in Michigan. A hands-on guy, Renato created this 3 D-printed jig for bending wire: "Some…...
"Form Follows Fabrication:" This Elegant Metal Handrail by Steel & Form
3+ week, 3+ day ago (128+ words) Core77 "Form Follows Fabrication:" This Elegant Metal Handrail by Steel & Form "Form Follows Fabrication" is the motto of Steel & Form, a UK-based metal fabricator. The firm employs designers, engineers and craftspeople. "We recently completed this bespoke handrail for a high-end private…...
From Guinness Book of World Records to Custom Machines
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1031+ words) The eight-story Mangrove glass tube installation in the Solaire Resort. Inspired by the atrium light shining down from above and the root system of the mangrove tree, Weinstein didn't set out to break records. He simply wanted visitors to become…...
Brilliant Portable 3 D-Printed Chess Set for Tradespeople
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (68+ words) Core77 Daniel Hubert, a 3 D designer who posts his. stl files on Printables, may be a genius. At a hardware store, he encountered sets of security bits (for driving tamper-proof fasteners) in both black and silver. Where we see specialty bits,…...
Industrial Design Student Work: A Collapsible Touring Bicycle with 3 D-Printed Components
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (113+ words) Core77 Industrial Design Student Work: A Collapsible Touring Bicycle with 3 D-Printed Components This Touring Bicycle was the thesis project of Sebastian Andraschko, an Institute of Industrial Design student at Austria's FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz. The idea was to…...
An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (143+ words) Core77 An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter Japanese overdesign is alternately hilarious and inspiring. ID students should be forced to study it. Because Japanese overdesign is about seeking out even the slightest inconvenience experienced while using an everyday…...
Industrial Designer David Irwin's Molded Chair Prototyping Process
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (81+ words) Core77 Irwin, a Northern Irish industrial designer and Assistant Professor at Northumbria University's School of Design, explains what you're looking at: Through April 18th the mold, pressing and resulting chair are being exhibited as part of "Proof of Concept #3: Mould" at London's…...
Wood and 3 D print intersection Tripod Table
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (157+ words) Core77 Wood and 3 D print intersection Tripod Table This project explores the relationship between wood and 3 D-printed materials. By using 3 D-printed components at the intersections of the tripod table, the design highlights new possibilities for constructing tables and demonstrates innovative ways…...
How Boilermakers Make Complicated 3 D Shapes Out of 2 D Material
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (135+ words) Core77 Boilermakers and sheet metal workers have something in common with fashion designers: They have to figure out how to cut 2 D materials to form 3 D shapes. For instance, imagine trying to make this out of sheet metal: Sure, you could…...
Next-Gen Composite Materials: Using Flax Rather than Carbon Fiber
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (256+ words) For centuries, human beings have added strands of material to other materials in order to strengthen them. In the Middle Ages, workers discovered that adding horsehair to lime plaster prevented it from cracking. The strands of hair, taken from a…...