After a colorful career as a design director of Nike and now having ‘retired’ to establish the Pensole Footwear Design Academy in Portland, Oregon, D’Wayne Edwards has been showing no signs of slowing down. The self-educated footwear designer came from a rough neighborhood in Los Angeles and got his first job at LA Gear after…
When bringing up the topic of digitally fabricated furniture, it’s difficult to not bring up Joris Laarman’s infamous Bone Chair (which is one part of an entire Bone Furniture collection). The bone structure-inspired chair, which was among the first and most unique experiments in applying digital fabrication techniques to furniture, still sits in museums and…
This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days.
We’ll start off with ‘Lift It‘ from Floral Fauna and work our way through some Midnight Magic, Lemongrass, DJ Shadow and others before wrapping up with ‘Wintersonne‘ from Fait Du Prince.
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!
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader.
This week we saw everything from how a mechanical designer created an amazing 3D printed hand to a new dog toy design that is aimed at being more pleasing to the eye for humans and more.
So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week.
There is something delightful about the Odin Kickstarter video. I can’t decide if it’s because the project was created by a small family with a bright idea (dog included) or the final scene in the video (you’ll just have to watch to find out). Either way, it’s fun, simple and effective projects like these that…