If you’re like me, you’ve been slaving away for hours carving mermaids, mer-cats and other mer-creatures into your surroundings, so this should provide some inspiration and give you something to talk about over dinner tonight. William Jeffrey Jones is a guitar carving beast of mythical proportions himself, carving such details as tails, scales and curly bits into the finest fine, full-grain walnut. He shares a little bit about his process from his site where you can feast your eyes upon the artistic spectacular he applies to his craft.
Guest post by Bradley Derry from bradleyderry.com
Design is details. Design is the tiny elements in a product that work their way into final production from hours of sketching, prototyping, and CAD. Details are what the designers agonize over and what the manufactures spend so much time trying to get just right. This post is a homage to all the people who make these details.
I spent a good amount of time yesterday at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), New York City’s annual showcase for contemporary design. The show brings thousands of visitors each year to see over 500 exhibitors displaying product from all over the world. Many visitors glaze right over the products on display missing many design elements, so I made it a point to pick out 60 details to highlight. Did you spot the same details? Did you spot better ones? Take a look…
You see that guy? He’s enjoying life… enjoying the heck out it. Just look at him. He’s jabbin’ his meat nub against that 27″ touchscreen screen and loving it. Whoa! He just moved that skull slice with multiple fingers?! He’s dangerous and he knows it.
Who’s making all this possible? I’ll give you one guess and then interrupt you by just saying, “Perceptive Pixels, that’s who.” They’ve taken their massive 55″ wall unit technology you’ve seen on CNN, squished it down to a reasonable size and will be making it available to the general public in the unforeseen future. Another classy photo and video of what it could be like after the jump.
I know, were on a coffee kick, but after you shoot your coffee into your cup, are you just going to sit around waiting for it to cool or take action with heat transforming phase change material?
Then coffee Joulies are for you. Developed by two design engineers named Dave, the stainless steel beans cool down your coffee three times faster than normal and keep it warm for twice as long. It’s magical. Earlier this month they achieved funding via their kickstarter project raising $306,944 for production of the product in the USA.
If these model were any more real, they’d crawl their way out of your screen and eat you. I’ve actually just scared myself a little bit, but what’s even scarier is that these 3D human CAD models are the most accurate representation of the human form I’ve ever had the joy of opening in SolidWorks. Eric Lagman, human and industrial designer from South Carolina, has poured hour upon hour into creating the best human models known to the modern CAD industry. His new site, CADHuman.com, delivers the monochromatic body parts direct to your modeling environment.