In RADIO

SolidSmack Radio | Acid Jazz Elevator Freakout

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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’ve put together an acid jazz-inspired playlist to get that blood flowing as we start to see more light in the day. We’ll start with ‘Whatever It Is’ from Bennson and move our way through some Exodus Quartet, The Funkees, Los Amigos Invisibles, Thievery Corporation, and others before wrapping up with ‘Midnight Rapsody’ from William Goldstein.

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In CAD

SpaceClaim Kicks Project "Connect" Out of Beta, Releases LiveReview & a 3D Print Prep Tool

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For all of those getting antsy to click a button and start a live session to share your confidential CAD data whilst in your jammies, the ability to do so in now here. SpaceClaim has released SpaceClaim 2014 Service Pack 1, and what a Service Pack it is. With it you get LiveReview, formerly codenamed ‘Connect’ (coverage here), that allows instant, secure collaboration on your designs inside SpaceClaim, without the need for a(nother) ‘Cloud’ account, storage or profile of any kind. For those on subscription, you get early access (meaning currently free) to the features for the next six months. After this, LiveReview will be available for $500/year.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Patterned Cannon Crisps

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The tartan sky bled patterned red and crisp the sound of cannons. We held the bank and then the city, dropped amidst the tents of rags. And past the mossy crags we sped, where silently they slumber, fifty milidroits, machined a poised, protecting all these links. Isaac Hannaford – He’s got ships down, kicking out…

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In FAB

Crafting a Jacket That Lasts Forever: The Making of Barbour Originals Jackets

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Few items can be found in a clothes closet that really do last forever–and the items that do last forever regularly end up being some of the most prized possessions in an individual’s closet–whether it’s a pair of boots that get resoled every year or a first business suit straight out of college. Barbour jackets rank up there as something that are still worn decades after their initial purchase. The Made in England brand recently released this ‘Making Of’ video that gives a sneak peak of what goes in to creating their timeless jackets.

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In MAKER GALAXY

Maker Galaxy E09: Ben Einstein of Bolt

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We’re always talking about the future of design, the future of technology, the future of MAKING. In a world where digital checkups and will allow patients to interact with doctors from home, a world where a vibrating shoe will give directions to the blind…how do we find the next ‘big thing’’? MakerGalaxy is a show that explores the crossroads of Design, Technology, and the Future of Making.

This week we talked with the founder behind a new product design accelerator that—similar to other incubators and think tanks—aims to help guide new companies through the process of creating physical products. Bolt is the name of that company and Ben Einstein is the lead product designer and founder of the Boston-based firm. We’ll talk with Ben about everything from how he developed the idea for Bolt to things he’s learned in the hyper-accelerated product design process.

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