In DESIGN

Behind the Design Process: The Pod Chair From Benjamin Hubert

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With an impressive portfolio consisting of objects ranging from furniture and lighting to watches and even ‘laptop luggage’, the team of industrial designers, researchers and engineers over at Benjamin Hubert Ltd. are regularly nominated for design awards both in their native Britain as well as internationally. Working specifically with the goal of creating a sustainable alternative to traditional large upholstered furniture, their Pod chair is designed to create acoustical privacy in large shared spaces including offices and hotel lobbies. Using just a thin sheet of molded recycled PET-coated felt and a wood base, the team has created a unique chair design that’s not only comfortable but also functional. In this video from the award-winning product design firm, we get a behind-the-scenes look at how they made it all happen.

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In CULTURE

Shape: This Excellent Short Film Teaches Young People the Importance of Design in Our Daily Lives

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Explaining how design affects our daily lives is no easy task…especially when it involves trying to simplify it in terms that a young population can grasp. Between the complexities of city planning to the reasons why houses and products are built a specific way, there is a lot of info to sort of ‘sum up’ in a single discussion. As a part of their MakeShapeChange campaign, Pivot Dublin–a Dublin City Council initiative to get young people excited about design thinking–released this nearly 7-minute animated film that while absent of any words, successfully shows how and why good design works.

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In FAB

The Micro: A Consumer-Friendly $300 3D Printer That Gets the Job Done

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While the MakerBot Replicator 2 has been the go-to for consumers, the $2199 (note: the price recently dropped to $1999) price tag has still been a bit of a hurdle for consumers not quite sure about the application of 3D printing in their day-to-day lives. The Micro 3D Printer just might be the first consumer-friendly 3D printer that will push those sitting on the fence over with their incredible $300 price tag…arguably a tempting price for swaying new customers that are used to similar prices for their inkjet printers. Today, Micro-creators M3D launched the Micro 3D Printer on Kickstarter and within minutes reached their $50,000 crowdfunding goal.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Sudsing Rhino

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What’s the rhino doing in the soap bottle? You would have asked it, yet stranger still was its size. A wee rhino. In a soap bottle. Sudsing about. And it occurs to you, that the muffled melody you hear is coming from that place, a rhino in a bottle with these links to pass the…

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In DESIGN

Complex 3D Printed Art Collaborations From Modla You Have Got to See

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Modla is a small 3D printing design studio that creates incredibly ornate, complex and detailed 3d printed art pieces for brands, architects, designers, artists and more. They launched just over a year ago and have already had product launches with Nike, completed an array of 3d printed architecture projects and designed all the signage for the Science Museum’s “3D Printing: The Future” exhibition. Among other projects they also do collaborations with artist. They’ve just launched three that are simply gorgeous examples of what the medium is doing for artists. We caught up with co-founders Jon Fidler and Rich Goddard about the niche they’ve found in 3d printed art collaboration and consulting.

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