Expanding on the success of his Disintegrating series of exploding car photos, Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner has decided to try something similar with one of his close interests: cameras. CutUp, his newest project, involves a series of cameras which are casted in resin before being cut up and rearranged to produce works of art. Before any actual cutting can begin, vacuum and pressure chambers are used to regulate the pressure and temperature around the resin-casted camera as it cures. Once encased in hard resin, Oefner uses a good, old-fashioned band saw to cut the material into the desired slices. After that, it’s just a matter of rearranging and…
It’s time for another round of apps that cover the spectrum of your beloved smart device(s)! The Weekly App Smack is the best of new or updated design and productivity apps (and maybe a couple of fun ones, too) for the busy design or engineering professional. This week we have a list sure to make you more efficient. Do you have an app suggestion that has made your life easier or changed up your workflow? Let us know in the comments below or send it to tips@solidsmack.com. Hit it! Thrive – Goals Ideas Decisions (iOS — $1.99) Get your life together. Just Press Record (iOS – $4.99) Record. Transcribe. Sync. Lumy…
From food manufacturers to e-commerce giants, the pressure is on to have at least some form of sustainable business practice as more consumers align with environmentally-friendly businesses. Loop is one way some larger brands are starting to dabble in becoming greener without resorting to completely uproot their existing supply chains. Created by recycling company TerraCycle, the online platform allows customers to shop from their favorite brands in a cleaner, more environment-friendly manner using reusable containers. After filling out your online shopping bag via the Loop online shopping platform, the products are stored in several sturdy, reusable containers before sending the bulk of them to you. Users simply just have to pay a…
Get that stretch out of your system with this week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist. It’s fashioned up, ready to make you pull your shoulder blades back and knock out another week of meaningful work while you bob your head to the beat. Whether you’re in the shop milling aluminum, sketching the latest product prototypes or modeling up a 3D storm, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week on SolidSmack Radio we’re getting things rolling on a groovy, laidback note with “House 70” from Groove Armada. From there, we’ll follow up with a grab bag of chilled out tracks including those from The Vanish, Brian Eno, Desire,…
We can all (mostly) agree that being environment-friendly and leaning towards sustainable manufacturing methods is a good thing. So is eating well and being healthy. So by the unspoken rules of the universe, doing both at the same time is doubly good and an all-around best-case scenario. Design firm Carly Ratti Associati (CRA) and multinational oil and gas company Eni recently turned their efforts on something a little sweeter: an experimental juice bar capable of taking discarded orange peels from their juicer and turning them into 3D printed disposable cups. Feel the Peel, as the hybrid juicer/cup-maker prototype is called, is a 3.10-meter (9-foot) tall machine capable of holding up to 1.500 oranges in…
As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack. What We’re Reading This Week: The Decline and Fall of the Modern Nerd The sad saga…