Founded in 1912, BERTONE has had a colorful history creating some of the most sought-after and futuristic car designs throughout the past century. The reputable Italian firm started out as a carriage manufacturing business and later turned into a styling studio that was commissioned by some of the most reputable car manufacturers in the world…
Aiming to ‘give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion’, Google’s Project Tango has been met with enthusiasm from both developers and consumers alike since being announced in early 2014. While the device is aiming to be everything from a gaming system to a new take on the retail experience, the ability to…
I work with a guy who routinely lifts whole sections from a dev-board pcb layout and places it into his own design. Lets call him Sparky. You think Sparky is gonna calculate values for the discretes surrounding that maxim boost converter? Heck no! Not if he can help it. Sparky is all about easy street. Now that I think about it, I think something traumatic happened to Sparky involving addition and subtraction…. maybe in college, maybe addition was driving…I can only speculate.
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. This week we’re taking a trip to Dub-Town with a colorful assortment of dub-heavy tracks that are sure to loosen those sketch muscles.
We’ll start off this week’s radio gently with ‘King Tubby Meets Rocker Uptown’ from Augustus Pablo and work our way through some Horrace Andy, Toots & The Maytals, Burning Spear, Massive Attack and others before wrapping up with ‘Walk Right In’ from Sylvan Morris and Andy’s All-Stars.
Have any suggestions for next week’s playlist? How about a playlist specific to a design task? Let us know in the comments!
If you’re familiar with the wild and crazy concepts from artist/designer Sebastian Errazuriz, then the organized chaos of his latest piece, The Explosion Cabinet, shouldn’t surprise you. The talented artist and designer has been spending his career crafting obscure functional objects ranging from ‘Man Chopping Board’ and ‘Tea for Two’ to ‘Flyswatter’ and ‘Tree Table’.…