What’s better than a 3D model with a bunch of curvy bits? A 3D model that replaces the curvy bits with more knobs, pipes, cutters, angles, conduit, boosters and extrusions than is reasonable or even imaginable. If you’re high fiving your face in agreement, you’ll want to remove the hydraulic actuators from your jowls and smile at this. Luxology has released the all new modo Bashing Kit with an assortment of mesh presets and image maps to bash ultimate spectacular into your sci-fi scenes and take your mechanized modeling to the next level.

You go out with your friend for a night on the town. You bring a camera. The next morning you find photos of yourself laying across benches, manipulating your joints through the mirrored glass of bank buildings and twisting cardboard boxes around what you think might be your friend being attacked by feral cats. You’ve been inspired, inspired by the art of one Víctor Enrich. Since the age of 10, Victor has been twisting the skylines of city and street, bridging amazing 3-dimensional structure with the urban dwellings with live and work within. His 3D Architecture art and his story will give you a different view of the city from this point on.

A lot of people tell me there are “better things” to do with compact electric scooter fenders than strap them to my body and run through a crowd of cake-vomiting children at a birthday party wall of fire and punches. One of those activities which is said to be better, is tossing the existing fenders in a scrap heap and designing some completely new fenders; Fenders that scream supreme scooter style. You can do just that with the latest CrowdCAD project at GrabCAD.com. The best fender wins a GoPro HD Camera, but you don’t have much time left!

The field vibrated. When the trees erupt from the soil… that will be my chance, he thought. Once was all it took. The ground split with a thousand mangled roots tumbling across each other. He leapt, unsheathed his swords and in a single, fluid motion cut the rootball off of these links. Karen Jacobs -…

Take a change of pace with me and see a completely different side of manufacturing. A side where designers don’t worry about being first to market or appealing to the largest consumer base possible. I’m talking about a side where products are produced specifically for individuals who appreciate the novelty and the art of the object. It’s a refreshing side and one where honest connections can be made between a company and its audience.