Your Guide to one of the Hippest City’s on Earth
Those of you who have read the past couple of posts on State of Design Festival and want to know more will be happy to know the Melbourne Design Guide is now available.
According to my source of all things hip and happening in Melbourne, Lucy at the Design Files
“It is truly the bible of Melbourne design – outlining not just design-focused retail, but also galleries, studios, snippets and recommendations from local designers, bars and cafes with a design-sensibility… anything and everything visually stimulating in this beautiful city!”
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Posted in Design, Duann Scott, Functional Art + Objects by Duann | Comments are off for this post
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Last weekend was the Renegade Craft Fair here in San Francisco. There was an amazing variety of jewelry, art, clothing and other craft goodness. It was lucky I only had a small amount of cash on me otherwise I could have gone broke rather quickly.
I was a little surprised to see there were only a handful of stalls with laser cut goodies, so I think there is plenty of room for growth in the laser craft niche.
One who I did meet was Leslie Yang (aka Feisty Elle), a well known Ponoko user who produces intricate bamboo and felt designs. 
Two other stalls also stood out with their rocking laser cut goodness. Pacific Puzzle Works and OrangeSlice. Both are based in Oakland and part of the growing creative hub in this part of town.
I love the detail and refinement of Pacific Puzzle Works’ puzzles. On top of that, owner Lee Krasnow has the patience of a Saint when explaining how to put them together to people who want to have a go.
OrangeSlice’s designs are elegant and made from sustainably harvested timber. What more can you ask for?
The Renegade Craft fair runs annually across a handful of US cities. Do you have some unique digitally crafted designs? Perhaps you could show your work at a local craft fair too. We might even be able to provide you with a Ponoko Makers Grant!
Posted in Dan Emery, Events, Jewellery by Dan Emery | Comments are off for this post
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Amazing Intuitive Potential of Multitouch 3D CAD
You must check out this video just released by Spaceclaim (previously mentioned on Ponoko Blog) that shows a preview demonstration of modeling in 3D using a SpaceClaim’s prototype multi-touch user interface that will be added to SpaceClaim later this year.
This really exciting development for intuitive and expressive design is sure to be seen as an additional tool, but not a replacement (yet) for the mouse and keyboard we have all come to love, especially where detail, engineering and documentation are concerned. I can imagine it being extremely useful in meetings or client consultation to put together the basic form and proportions of a design, which you would then go back over and flesh out using more precise parameter controls.
I can’t wait to see what happens when emerging technologies like this meet up with online enablers such as Ponoko’s own Photomake.
Also check out SpaceClaiming, the Online Community for professionals, amateurs, and students excited about new CAD technologies.
via Greg Corke at Develop3D
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Make your own stuff using: App Gateway
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Public program for the State of Design festival
Design For Everyone, is the State of Design Festival’s Public and Cultural Program, explores and communicates the importance of design to our future to the broader public. Incorporating over 100 diverse events, exhibitions, installations, competitions, lectures and experiences across Metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. The 2009 theme ‘Sampling the Future’ takes a cross-disciplinary approach to tackling key issues facing us all. By ’sampling’ responses from various design communities, Design For Everyone builds a picture of how design can lead and contribute.
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Flat Pack and Folded, Cardboard Creations.
Paper Tiger Products by designer Anthony Dann are objects made from folded mediums of recycled cardboard and plastic. Products ship as Flat-Pack to transport efficiently and snap together quickly and easily, using the strength of triangular folding, the products are engineered to withstand all the rigors of heavy use.
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Looking to nature for the next evolution of textile design.
With an industry wide need for “the reconciliation of aesthetics and ethics,” first year MA students in the Textile Futures program at Central Saint Martins recently published their research and studio work in Biomimicry Design. Their explorations into the visual complexity, sustainable methods, and current threats to the natural world have been divided into three categories: Behavior, Body, and Space.
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Posted in Design, Fashion + Textiles, Kristen Turner, Materials, Technology by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
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How To, MAKE, DIY, Etsy and etc….
A recent post on the fantastic Replicator Blog pointed to an interesting iTunes DIY Podcast Spotlight.
From there you can subscribe to some great podcasts such as the MAKE Magazine MAKE Podcast for weekly projects ranging from Low Cost Camera Stabilizers to Crazy Musical Instruments, or the Etsy Podcast with How (to) Tuesday, Handmade Confessionals and Talking Shop with Etsy Admin. Or check out Threadbanger DIY Fashion and Style for you ‘thread heads’ out there…
Not featured but definitely worth checking out is Designing Minds, TED Talks, Cool Hunting, Icon-o-Cast, and Gestalten TV.
Thanks again to Replicator Blog
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Following are a series of images from Design:Made:Trade, part of State of Designwhich also incorporates Design Capital, State of Design.
State of Design Festival, an initiative of the Victorian State Government, which hosts over 100 interactive events, exhibitions, workshops and talks from 15—25 July 2009. The Festival holds four major programs in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, focused around the 2009 theme “Sampling the Future”: Design Capital business program, Design For Everyone public and cultural program, Design:Made:Trade industry program, and the biennial Premier’s Design Awards (next held in 2010).
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Posted in CNC Routing, Design, Digital Fabrication, Duann Scott, Events, Functional Art + Objects, Furniture + Lighting by Duann | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC Routing
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interconnected, socially just, sustainable, beautiful, playful: MFA Theses from School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Making Modern is the MFA exhibition for Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This first part of my coverage highlights the work of five recent graduates in the Architecture program.
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Design, Events, Kristen Turner, Laser Cutting by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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graphic x industrial design + digital fabrication = cina
Leslie Leung and Jason Wright-St. Clair aka Cina, combine the two-dimensional discipline of graphic design with the third-dimensional factors of industrial design to create digitally manufactured products. Both designers studied in New Zealand and now run their two year old company from Tokyo.
Their current catalog of six laser-cut or laser-sintered designs not only demonstrate the assiduity to function that makes for unique and solid product design, but also the kind of careful consideration to achieving an interesting surface that drives compelling graphic work.
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Posted in 3D Printing, Design, Digital Fabrication, Functional Art + Objects, Kristen Turner, Laser Cutting by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC Routing
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