This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tuneage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “A Calf Born in Winter” from Khruangbin and work our way through tracks from Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Greenhorns, NEU!, Jonathan Wilson and others before wrapping up with “Anenome” from The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you…
Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. 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. Each Monday, we’ll 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. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.…
Let’s be honest here. When it comes to brain-enhancing, head-bobbin’ tuneage for the work week, few things beat our very own SolidSmack Radio. But, sometimes you just need to put all distractions aside for a moment to power through your inbox or get through that next round of design iterations to be home in time to watch Cheers reruns. For those moments, we’re huge believers of Brain.fm. Invented to have the “brain of a neuroscientist and the heart of a musician”, Brain.fm is the most advanced AI music composer on the planet and creates randomly generated music to improve focus (as well as meditation and sleep) with over 1.6 million…
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. Nonprofit Project H Inspires the Next Generation of Engineers and Social Activists What started in 2008 as one woman’s vision of using design and building projects to transform communities and improve…
The chest, arms and legs all opened. Thought it took but two to control, the others were there to be transported from one farm to the next. Sickles and blades in hand, they streamed out, steam bleeding, mixing with the mist, ready to harvest the rooty riggle vooters rising from these links. Jakub Rozalski – Lovely new series from this talented Concept Artist & Illustrator for and upcoming video game set in the 1920s, and plenty of process shots to go along. Type Nugget – An online typesetting tool to create, view and generate your typographic style and spit out beautifully tidy CSS. Taxonomy of Typography – And while we’re…
It seems software giant Microsoft is going deeper into 3D technology, and I’m wondering how this could tilt the 3D printing landscape. In their most recent OS, Windows 10, the company has just provided a series of interesting 3D software tools. You can see how some of them work in this video: https://youtu.be/Itc5ihHDAnY In the video, they show everyday folks using 3D technology in a variety of ways. Someone 3D scans a vegetable using their smartphone, for example. The scanned veggie is then subjected to comedic adaptation by implanting eyes and wings with an easy-to-use 3D modeling system. You’ll even be able to 3D print the models produced in this…