When they first hit the scene with their Confidant sketchbook back in January of 2014, NYC-based Baron Fig became one of the few Kickstarter success stories that involved the creation of a sustainable brand rather than a one-hit wonder product. Today, the company has a mini-factory where they continue to crank out the user-friendly sketchbooks for a long list of stockists. Naturally, the next step for the Baron Fig crew was to look at the other tool that belongs alongside their popular sketchbooks: the pen. “As you may have already noticed, a lot of what we previously learned about notebooks is applicable to pens,” says the company, which started as…
Ever see cool motion control projects made with the current technology and thought “wow, I wish I could do that.” Now you can learn the skills you needor even teach your kids graduate-level engineering concepts with TheMotionKit. This new kit aims to make learning both fun and easy.
Since the 1930s, the infamous “plop, plop, fizz, fizz” sound of two effervescent Alka-Seltzers into a cup of hot water has been associated with the relief of everything from indigestion to hangovers. Now, dunking a piece of meltable bioplastic may also be the source of a cure for many common everyday headaches, too. Designed and developed by UK designer Peter Marigold, the FORMcard is a credit card-sized piece of meltable plastic that, when dunked into a cup of hot water, can be molded to solve a myriad of everyday problems. When it’s time to reuse it, the cooled and custom-shaped form can be reheated again to provide the form factor…
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from our favorite ID sketching master Spencer Nugent, but the one-man sketch machine hasn’t slowed down his hustle. Although he normally posts videos on various ID sketching-related sketch tutorials on his personal YouTube channel, the industrial designer recently took time to give us a three-way look at the new iPad Pro, the Surface Pro 3, and of course, the Wacom Cintiq. “Apple recently dropped a bomb on the creative world, the iPad Pro. You might be wondering how it stacks up against the competition, so I pulled out all my old tablets, dusted em off and got them ready for the big showdown,” Nugent…
3D printing inspires us all (even if it only inspires us to be inspired). Whether it’s clothes or a drivable car, 3D printing is becoming more ingrained in our minds as a realistic solution. Another thing we’re ok with? 3D Printing + Art. Art installments are popping up everywhere, exploring 3D printing techniques and the possibilities for art. (Everything is art, right?)
Like 3D printers, 3D scanners are also rarely owned by people who don’t use them regularly – and the occasional need to use one rarely justifies the cost of owning one. Unsurprisingly, commercial 3D scanning companies exist for exactly this purpose, but finding one that’s both close and suits your needs isn’t always easy. Thankfully, the cool cats over at SketchFab – the leading platform for publishing 3D content anywhere online – have done the hard work for us and have put together what is surely the most comprehensive international 3D scanning directory of its type: The Sketchfab Community 3D Scanning Services. “The Sketchfab community is home to a large…