If you’re familiar with the wild and crazy concepts from artist/designer Sebastian Errazuriz, then the organized chaos of his latest piece, The Explosion Cabinet, shouldn’t surprise you. The talented artist and designer has been spending his career crafting obscure functional objects ranging from ‘Man Chopping Board’ and ‘Tea for Two’ to ‘Flyswatter’ and ‘Tree Table’. While he is known for creating avant-garde pieces, the young designer has a knack for making his seemingly conceptual pieces very functional objects. For his latest piece, The Explosion Cabinet, Errazuriz spent over a year figuring out the complicated rail system that is made from a complex network of sliding dovetail joints. The final result…
After earning a degree in architecture and specializing in industrial design, Ferrari’s Chief of Design Flavio Manzoni began his design career in 1993 working at FIAT’s Lancia Design Center. In only eight short years, Manzoni’s talents allowed him to rise through the ranks to become the chief designer of the FIAT Group Design Center. With an eye for futuristic high-performance aesthetics while staying true to a traditional brand language, Manzoni has led the design process for some of Ferrari’s most recent notable creations ranging from the 458 Italia to Ferrari’s first hybrid, the LaFerrari. Earlier this year, Ferrari and Manzoni were awarded the prestigious Compasso D’Oro Award for the F12…
Almost exactly a month ago, SolidSmack reported that popular toymaker Hasbro would be teaming up with Shapeways to offer My Little Pony fans (AKA Bronies) the option to 3D print and sell their own creations based on the Hasbro-owned content via their new(ish) SuperFanArt platform. As we predicted, the experimental move into user-created licensed content would be the beginning of something much larger for both Hasbro and other companies looking to strategically place themselves in the 3D printing movement. This past weekend it was announced that due to the early success of the My Little Pony-based designs, Hasbro has decided to expand the option of 3D printing their licensed content…
It’s Friday, and you know what that means here on The Smack: time for another DIY project to add to your arsenal. This week we’ve rounded up a dang-cool shelving project from software engineer-turned jewelry hacker Mat Brown who explains how to seal cracks and crevices of a piece of wood with glowing resin (AKA inlaying). Normally Mat does this with his jewelry designs that are sold over on his Etsy shop but has scaled up with some wood salvaged from a timber yard for some added kitchen storage. If you’ve got a pile of wood laying around with some imperfections and you haven’t figured out what to do with…
With Shark Week 2014 already going full-throttle, we thought we’d share an interesting tidbit that offers more science and less Sharknado that might help with some biomimicry inspiration for you down the road. Heck, researchers have already started 3D printing multi-material ‘shark skin’ to improve wetsuit, marine and aircraft design. Check out the informative piece over at FYFD.
Why didn’t somebody think of this sooner? Either way…we’re just glad that somebody did. Japanese illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi has combine two of the best things on Earth into one glorious building block in the form of chocolate LEGOs. Presumably created no differently than any other chocolate mold, the modular edibles just gave us hundreds of more reasons to eat the good stuff. via Colossal