Without even being a full week into the new year, we’ve already been seeing an avalanche of new product announcements, tech trends and software announcements that will help shape the next year in product design and engineering. Never one to disappoint when it comes to announcements, Luxion announced today that they have released the KeyShot…
Although they’ve been on the market for awhile as a 3D printer manufacturer now, MakerBot has been up to a lot more than just creating glorified hot glue guns that create colorful vases and toys. In addition to their recent partnerships with global brands including Sesame Street, Hello Kitty, Martha Stewart and more recently, Hoover…
There’s one thing you don’t have laying around your office this new year. A Chainsaw. A mini LEGO Chainsaw. It’s just sad, a person of your stature and arm strength, with no Mini LEGO Chainsaw. Let’s put an end to that this instant. František Hajdekr, from Bavorov, Czech Republic, creates all sorts of detailed LEGO builds. He’s a painter, sculptor, photographer and of course accomplished LEGO creator. His most recent build is a wee LEGO Technic chainsaw, ready to meet your little LEGO lumberjack fantasies with moving motor piston and chainsaw blade.
Since his famous presentation in front of the Cupertino City Council on June 7th, 2011 (just one day after presenting at the 2011 WWDC), Steve Jobs’ vision of bringing a spaceship-inspired Apple headquarters down to earth has been slowly coming to life. The headquarters, which Jobs wanted to build to house 12,000-13,000 Apple employees under…
This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new playlist of face-melting great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. So whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw or flying through a CAD model, consider these tracks as a tool for your process.
This week we’ll start with a remix of Tricky’s classic ‘Overcome’ and work our way through some Wally Badarou, Blonde Redhead, Parquet Courts, Dirty Gold and others before wrapping up with ‘Look’ from Sébastian Tellier.
Do you have any suggestions for next week’s playlist? How about a playlist specific to a design task? Let us know in the comments!