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…
We would pop a few over the fence, just to hear the reaction. It was usually a grumble of sorts, a low guttural sound of pre-digested enzymes breaking down the fats. We had yet to see it, until one day, when we bound ten together around a ball of butter. Lowering it slowly, we saw…
Often used for the production of engine parts, lost-foam casting (LFC) has seen a resurgence of interest in recent years despite having first been invented by sculptor Armand Vaillancourt in the 1950s and first used commercially by General Motors in the mid-1980s for their Saturn car line. More recently, Dutch industrial designer Klaas Kuiken became…
Perhaps best known for sand casting his Pewter Stool in the natural landscape of Caerhays beach on the South coast of Cornwall back in 2006, industrial designer Max Lamb has continued on his quest to explore new ways of manufacturing products in nontraditional ways over the past ten years. For the Crockery Collection, Lamb turned…
The ability to quickly observe a form and deconstruct it into primitive shapes that can be sketched or modeled is one of the most valuable skills that a designer or engineer can have. Unfortunately, learning how to think this way doesn’t necessarily come naturally for most – particularly if it involves a sketchbook and a…