Time for another round of apps that cover the spectrum of your beloved mobile device, be it iPhone, Android or Windows! 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 and 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 into tips@www.solidsmack.com. Hit it! Talko “A new way for mobile teams to communicate. Talko unifies messaging, calling and conferencing…
Who doesn’t love a kinetic sculpture? If I was an inanimate object, my one dream you ask? To be made into a kinetic sculpture of some sort. Preferably one that is cool, mesmerizing and makes people question their sanity. One like this simple, and quite beautiful, kinetic sculpture modeled by GrabCAD user trinityscsp.
Erik Baldwin built a career out of his love of the ocean, technical know-how, and building things by hand. His boards are a combination of old fashioned hand-craft, 3D scanning, CNC machining, and hella stoke.
With most flat-pack furniture, material and structural integrity are often sacrificed for lower costs to the consumer and less of a headache for the retailer to ship, store and deliver. While cheaper, this furniture is also much more susceptible to breaking and thus, needs to be replaced more often. Well, it appears that Italian industrial designer Mario Alessiani has found a way to seamlessly integrate the two while highlighting the functionality of both materials in the form of the Antilope stool for furniture maker Offiseria. Combining wood with iron, the colorful structure comes ready-to-assemble with flat pack parts that require no glue or joints. Needless to say, you won’t need…
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 “Hendrix and Ko” from Caribou before working our way through some Bob Moses, Radiohead, (new) Massive Attack, Santigold and others before wrapping up with the classic “People Are Strange” from The Doors. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to…
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. Introducing 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…