Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader.

For our first week of the new year, we saw everything from the complicated disassembly (and reassembly) of a Rolex Submariner watch, a design duo who are bring the vacuum forming aesthetic to fashion, a shower inspired by showering methods used in space and more.

So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week.

They brandished their coils, sharp, fearsome, dripping with the ink of ages. A nonlethal threat should they dry, buy nay, not a day past without a letter, a sketch, a note. The scribbles shook foundations built on stale fears, twisted tales and blinded thought. Never would they fall, with pens enchanted by these links. David…

Among other product designers who have been adding a modern twist to classic toy designs, Detroit, Michigan-based Matthew Tait of TAIT Design Co. has done an exceptional job of combining DIY interactivity to otherwise perfect wooden toy designs. The designer, who started TAIT Design Co. in 2013, went to school to become a graphic designer…