In RADIO

SolidSmack Radio | People Are Strange

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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 step back and pulling out some of our favorite ‘oldies’…depending on when you were born of course. We’ll start off this week’s radio with ‘People Are Strange‘ from the Doors and work our way through some Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, T. Rex, The Stranglers and others before wrapping up with ‘Rock This Town’from the Stray Cats.

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In FAB

Electric Waste Orchestra: Making Instruments Crafted from E-Waste

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Call them the Devo of upcycling…an Illinois music group by the name of Electric Waste Orchestra has been turning old and discarded hardware into new musical instruments. Born out of Makerspace Urbana in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (135 miles south of Chicago), the group creates fully-functional musical equipment that not only keeps e-waste out of landfills but…

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In FAB

3D Weaver: A Loom Designed to Weave Three-Dimensional Structures

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Add this to the list of jaw-droppingly awesome things that a student did for a school project. For his final project at the Royal Academy of Art, Nigerian-American industrial designer Oluwaseyi Sosanya has created a 3D weaving machine that can theoretically redefine what it means to produce soft goods and clothing. The patent-pending 3D Weaver…

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In DESIGN

The Nike Free Box: New Box Design Shaves 2/3 of Traditional Box Size…Thanks to a Flexible Shoe Design

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While the argument over barefoot running is still up in the air, one thing is for certain: Nike’s marketing department has done a stellar job of marketing the ‘minimalist’ running shoe with everything from pushing shoe designer Mark Miner into the design rockstar spotlight to a portfolio of memorable ads including the infamous ‘Flyswatter’ ad…

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