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’ll be pulling out some of the best trip hop this side of 1996. We’ll start with a classic from Xela and work our way through some RJD2, Grimes, and revisit some classics from Pretty Lights and Portishead. Ease your neck skin a bit with some downtempo vibes this week.
Located in San Francisco, the award-winning industrial design studio of Mike and Maaike have dabbled in everything from BBQ grills to wallpaper and bookshelves to driverless automobiles. With their future-forward approach to design-thinking it comes with little surprise that their luggage designs for Apple-favorite Incase are perhaps the most forward-thinking and functional luggage designs for the modern day traveler.
While 3D printing may not be disrupting entire distribution chains, there are quite a few people who will be printing their next iPhone case, or glasses, or headphones, or toy set…rather than purchasing one off of Amazon. While it may be a drop in the bucket, it is still real, and it is a threat. During the open-question session of last Thursday’s annual shareholder meeting for Amazon, CEO Jeff Bezos was pegged with the question of how 3D printing could disrupt Amazon’s distribution of products and reduce the need for traditional delivery methods. Here’s what he had to say.
We’ve seen some killer 3D robot arm printing come out of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) before in both clay and sand with others exploring recycled plastic, but this new collaboration between researcher, Petr Novikov, and architect, Saša Jokić, is making the print and the printer an absolute art form. Mataerial is a project that explores a new printing method, or rather a new material, that doesn’t require support structure, can be printed into 3D forms instead of 2D layers and is even capable of being programmed to print in full-color.