In DESIGN

Hand-crafted Metal Vessel Design To Make Your Fruit Look Cool

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Perhaps you’re chillin’ in the eclectic abode of Shanghainese family of brush-tailed porcupines wondering where they curate their wonderful assortment of furniture and lighting. Perhaps the conversation leads to the discussion of computers, generative design and applying moisturizer in hard-to-reach places. With such discussions of computers and design, there’s likely one person’s name to pop into the conversation–Zhang Zhoujie. Zhang is a designer from Shanghai with the ability to bend thin sheets of metal with his mind… and then make it happen with some software, hand tools and 1.5mm stainless steel sheets.

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In DESIGN

Is That a Stick of Gum In Your Pocket (Or Are You Just Happy to See Me)?

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Have you ever fought with gravity in order to get your iphone into a hands-free position where you watch the screen and use your hands for more important tasks like cracking lobster shells or defusing bombs? Now you can! with Breffo’s new Gumstick smartphone stand you can support any smartphone on the market with a stand that is compact enough to stick in your pocket. The stand is about the size of a pack of gum when it is flat (hence the name) In order to use it you just bend it into whatever shape you need to hold your phone at the correct angle. Constructed of steel wrapped in a seamless rubbery polymer to provide strength and grip.

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In RADIO

SolidSmack Radio | Movember Moustache Inspiration

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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 celebrating the first week of Movember—the month of the Moustache that also aims to bring awareness to various men’s health issues with a slew of moustache-inspired tracks. We’ll start with Sabotage from the Beastie Boys and work our way through some Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Spinal Tap, and Motörhead before wrapping up with Big Moustache by The Lowriders.

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In NEWS

Form and Function for Your Futuristic Fannie: Folditure Unleashes the Ultimate Folding Chair

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For centuries the chair has been the quintessential design challenge for creative minds the world over. How can I possibly do something new with this old form?—is a question that many designers have asked themselves over the ages, while trying to infuse their sitting-devices with style that is markedly their own. Fortunately for twenty-first century creators, there are many more materials and machining processes available than there once were, and a much broader palette of customer tastes to appease with them. These are certainly angles that designer and architect Alexander Gendell has intelligently channeled in the development of his new company Folditure, and in the profoundly innovative folding furniture that it produces.

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In FAB

From Plotting to Trotting: 3D Printing Titanium Racehorse Shoes

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CSIRO, the “Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization” of Australia, announced recently that it has successfully 3D-printed the first pair of horse shoes. Using laboratory-grade 3D scanning and printing methods, scientists scanned each foot of the pilot horse and set-off to print a custom titanium shoe for each foot, which the team did in one day. After doing so, researchers affectionately nicknamed their experimental equine “Titanium Prints” and offered the world yet another biologically-sensible application for 3D printing technology.

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