Spinal Rhythms

May 9th, 2008

Spinal Rhythms by Eva Schindling

Spinal Rhythms‘ is the thesis project of Eva Schindling. The subtitle is ‘Autonomous Embodied Evolution of a Biomimetic Robot’s Rhythmic Motion Behavior’, I’ve read it a few times and I’m still puzzled. It’s all about the physical movement of a stick-creature and its fitness. She didn’t use any electric motor to move the limbs but elastic shape memory alloy springs. Those contract when heated with electic current and expand when the cooldown, an Arduino board controls the whole system (an open source physical computing platform). It is of course very conceptual but maybe the video will clear up a few things.

Richard Allen

May 2nd, 2008

Richard Allen

Black, grey and white mixed with patterns, my kind of art. All artworks by Richard Allen.

Richard Allen

Richard Allen

Ill Studio

April 24th, 2008

Ill Studio

Illuminati, a collective exhibition at the Lazydog gallery, Paris by Ill Studio.

Justine Ashbee

April 5th, 2008

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Justine Ashbee draws these amazing curves by hand!
found at Infostuka.org

Grid

March 22nd, 2008

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‘Grid’ by Matthias Jäger & Georg Kettele.

Single Curved Line With 768 Inflection Points

March 19th, 2008

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‘Single Curved Line With 768 Inflection Points’ by Hideki Nakazawa.

Hill & Gully Rider

March 17th, 2008

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‘Hill & Gully Rider’ by Peter Rentz. Patterns!

Swept Away

March 16th, 2008

swept_away.jpg‘Swept Away’ by Andrew Douglas Underwood, he gets his inspiration from nature and makes patterns with it.

Folded Frosted Polypropylene

March 11th, 2008

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Folded frosted polypropylene … the structure, the pattern, the material … my kind of stuff.
found at FFFFOUND!

Diamond Chair

March 10th, 2008

diamond_chair.jpgThis is the Diamond Chair by Nendo. On the first picture you can see a step in the production process, indeed it’s a rapid prototyping technique called selective laser sintering. It’s very similar to the 3D printing that Front Design used for their Sketch Furniture.
Unfortunately this technology isn’t ready for mass production yet, it takes 5 to 6 days just to print 1 chair.
More info and images at dezeen.