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 we’ll get the groove going with “Cold Moon” from MiWi La Lupa before diving into sweet melodies from Josh White, Gibbz, Sonny Cleveland, The Dig, and others before wrapping up with “Better All the Time” from Zuli. Rock! Have…
So, I said, Onshape, why don’t you push out some new features in 15 DAYS instead of 21 days. And they were all like, ‘You didn’t really ask us that, but since you pretended to, BAM-A-LAM!! FIST OF ONSHAPE!! ACTIVATE!!’ And then there was a little wine and cheese party, with those guys that do the jazz thing. All quite classy. This update has a bunch of those things you were complaining about to your kids in between bites of broccoli, bath-time and binging it up with a bottle of vino, bag of chips and the latest episode of fill-in-the-blank. Yes, more modeling in the mix and more drawing features,…
Recently, we featured Capsule Skateboards, makers of a 100% polymer skateboard which can stand an unusual amount of punishment and still do everything just as well (if not better) than a traditional maple board. The project on Indiegogo didn’t quite meets their goal but the company has shared some information on how this almost unbreakable board came to be. Whenever Andreas Charalambous, the visionary behind Capsule, would come home from his day job, he would spend any spare time in his garage working on the project. An avid skater since the age of eight, Andreas wanted to address the issues regarding the construction of conventional boards. This was around the…
Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee, and get comfortable with this week’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. The Weekend Reader features a handful of the most interesting articles featured on the ‘Smack over the past week ranging from tips and tricks to inspirational designs, processes, and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week. Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too. Philippe Starck: Bezel-less Phones Are The End of Smartphone Design You’d have to be pretty deep under a rock to have not heard about the latest iPhones by now. And while…
In the 21st century, it’s never enough when an object only has one function. Smart phones need to be computers. Pencils need to be sharpeners. And wallets? When they’re not doubling as a tactical tool why not as a notebooks? The P01 Pioneer Bifold Wallet & Pen was made with the purpose of keeping your money, identity, and ideas safe and close at hand. While the video above looks really stylish and shows artists in their element, I can picture a more realistic scenario where this wallet and pen combo would work wonders: Say you’re going out on a night of drinking alone. The optional multi-tool in the wallet can…
The leaves we raked through the mist had left the eaters confused at first. We pushed the piles close as we could without them seeing, but you could tell they were trying to smell what was helping them feed. Why assist such creatures? Though blind, their quills were the only things that could protect us from these links. Swang – Dragons! And ships, lots of ships, but also characters, environments, bots and more from the Vancouver, Canada artist. Rice Art – The village of Inakadate, Japan has become known for their rice paddy art, which has become quite intricate in its design. VanGo Yourself – You take a Van Gogh painting and recreate it.…