I really like this idea: A bare-bones piece of furniture made from ubiquitous salvage materials and brick-simple construction, but with meticulously detailed hand-wrought decoration. It’s from French group doobi, whose only web presence appears to be their Facebook group. [via Recyclart]
If you’re in NYC, the OneZero MFA Design and Technology Thesis Symposium is not to be missed. OneZero is the annual thesis show brought to you by the graduating class of the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons the New School for Design. Projects exhibited through both analog and digital mediums include interactive installations, […]
The kind folks at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY, write: Keep Calm and Wobble On. The Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition is back for a second year . . . because frankly, Jell-O hasn’t gone anywhere. It wobbles onward, come what may. Jell-O springs eternal. This year’s competition asks designers to explore […]
I’m digging this functional mini lomo camera by Francesco Capponi.
I really wanted to call this post “scorpiod robotagami,” but after lambasting Wired the other day for failing to count legs, I have to watch my step pretty carefully. Handy tip for bloggers: DO NOT ANNOY WIRED.
Anyway, Dustin Wallace describes his you-fold-it metal Chimera sculpture as part human being, part armadillo, and part pill bug. But the one I just ordered is gonna be a scorpion, darn it, no matter what Dustin or Wired say.
Jaime Oliver’s “Silent Drum” uses a unique elastic membrane drum head as a sound controller. A camera reads the position/shape of the head as it’s deformed with the hands and then translates that into data that can trigger sound events. [Thanks, Alberto!] Silent Drum
I seem to find myself saying something like this a lot these days: “We’ve seen this idea before, but, dang, this person is good at it.” Well, here goes again: We’ve seen this idea before, but dang, Andrea Petrachi (aka Himatic) is good at it. Andrea’s junkbot figurines are made from, well, junk, but he seems to have a particular flair for the use of old camera parts.
