There is but one word to describe the EvD Makerbot Absurd iPhone accessory design challenge. FREAKIN’ AWESOME. Not only were there over 180 entries, but over 180 entries that served up an iPhone biting eye-feast of unmatched proportion. There were so, SO many excellent entries, but we’ve narrowed it down and the winner is…
I admit it, I was completely enamoured with the Human Birdwings Video. If you haven’t seen it, this is a video of Floris Kaayk (AKA Jarno Smeets, or as I like to call him, Harvey Birdman) strapping on a convincing-looking set of wings and taking off. Turns out it was fake and proves an uncomfortable reality about design and would-be ingenuity on the internet.
Well, it looks like your a webpage threw up multiple levels of structured data in your browser. Wonderful 3-dimensional throw up. Mozilla Firefox version 11 is out and with it a new developer tool that allows you to view a website’s Document Object Model (DOM) in the beauty of three dimensions. Fancy a look?
As I sit hear thinking on all the wonderful stories of the past week, a small sand weevil crawls past, looks me in the eye and says… IT’S TIME FOR THE SOLIDSMACK UPDATE!!!!!!!
Kick it.
You’ve seen the chair designs of Kenneth Smythe on SolidSmack before, but that will not be the last you’ll see. With hundreds of chair and table variations in the works, he’s elevating the visual function of sitting, above the seat and creating designs based on a musical passacaglia of furniture design floating in a narrative of asymmetric permutations.