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Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For a Living)
Jamie Condliffe, gizmodo.comEveryone’s now aware of 3D printing — they’ve read about it in the papers, on blogs or seen it on TV. The mentality now seems to be that, in the future, we’ll be able to download our products or make them ourselves with CAD programs, apps and 3D…
“In the future we might print not only buildings, but entire urban sections”
Emilie Chalcraft, dezeen.comForward-thinking designers are using 3D printing to blow architecture wide open, as Dezeen’s editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs reports in this extract from Print Shift, our one-off publication dedicated to the developing technology.
3 Steps For Plotting Your Personal Future In An Uncertain World
BY VENESSA MIEMIS, fastcoexist.comWhat’s the best way to feel productive and valued at work and in life? Having a sense of where you’re going. To do that, you need to forecast your own future, and then put yourself on the path to get there.
In today’s accelerating world of wo…
Students Build A 22-Foot-Tall Home For Local Bees
By Sammy Medina, fastcodesign.comThe Elevator B tower is part of a larger effort to regenerate a historic district in Buffalo.
It’s not a good time to be a bee. In the last several years, unprecedented numbers of honeybees have been killed off, and no one is exactly sur…
Kickstarting: A $30 Optical Tool For Drawing With Camera-Like Accuracy
By Margaret Rhodes, fastcodesign.comThe NeoLucida, a simple optical drawing tool, is set to disrupt the way artists work.
It’s a widely held belief that the Old Masters were exactly that: masters, such as da Vinci and Vermeer, who painted in flawlessly precise freehand.…
The Story of a Designer’s Tattoo in Memory of Dad
Benjamin Starr, visualnews.comMany tattoos are put on with less than a second thought… others go through months or years of planning and involve a storied narrative. This tattoo is one of the latter. After Boston based designer Kirk Wallace’s dad passed away earlier thi…
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The Honeycomb Vase 2007 by Studio Libertiny
dezeen.comTomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny has sent us images of his new series of Honeycomb Vases, which are made by bees. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on …
Skyscraper for bees by University at Buffalo students
Amy Frearson, dezeen.comHigh-rise living is no longer just for people. A team of architecture students from the University at Buffalo has recently constructed a skyscraper for a colony of bees (+ slideshow).
An Artist Attempts To Draw All The Buildings In New York
By Belinda Lanks, fastcodesign.comJohn Gulliver Hancock still has a ways to go, but you can check his progress so far in a new book.
John Gulliver Hancock has an obsession. The artist has taken it upon himself to draw every building in New York, an ambitious goal that he…
LUNA CAFFE’
PROGETTO: Intervento di design site specific che ha dato alla luce una serie di pezzi unici realizzati per il Luna Caffè nel cuore del nuovo design district di Ventura-Lambrate a Milano. COMMITTENTE: M …
WOODSKIN
This material hold an endless potential to absorb ideas and possibilities that reflect the dynamics of the space they occupy. Recognizing this potential allows to re-conceive and re-build spaces inspi …
The Ancient Art of Perfect Gin: Our Visit to Beefeater and Plymouth
Brent Rose, gizmodo.comGin just happens to be one of our favorite beverages. It’s a versatile spirit with tons of variation between brands. And we were fortunate enough to see how two of the great gin producers of the ages—Beefeater and Plymouth—create it from…
The 8 Types of Shovels Everyone Should Know
Andrew Tarantola, gizmodo.comHumans have been digging in the Earth since the dawn of the Neolithic Revolution, some 12,000 years ago. While the earliest agriculturalists had to make do with shovels crudely fashioned from animal bones—shoulder blades were a popular choice—late…
