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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Fractal Table 2 By Platform

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These days, furniture whose designs are conceived on a computer or transferred from other media can be wholly or partly made by digitally controlled machines. More recently, technology allows for the three-dimensional (3D) printing of a complete object, layer by layer, using powder or liquid resin.

This Fractal Table II (2007– 2009) designed by Platform —  a partnership of  German furniture designers  Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel, with Matthias Bar — is based on the form of the dragon tree (Dracaena). To develop the computer models for the table, the designers used mathematical algorithms to create a design which reproduced the fractal growth patterns found in tree’s branching structure.
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Eye On Design: Bone Chair By Joris Laarman

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Joris Laarman (b. 1979) is a contemporary Dutch designer known for his innovative and futuristic furniture designs. One of his most famous creations is the Bone Chair, which gained considerable attention in the design world.
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Eye On Design: Scented 3D Printed Cotton Candy Dishes

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3D Printed Cotton Candy Dishes
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Inside this glass dome are vessels printed from sugar. The dome has an indented opening, inviting museum visitors to take a whiff of the objects inside; and yes, they smelled like Cotton Candy. Continue reading Eye On Design: Scented 3D Printed Cotton Candy Dishes →

Books and Periodicals, Pop Culture

Pink Thing of The Day: Happy Tank

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A few weeks ago, we went over to  The Fashion Institute of Technology to check out the 2017 MFA in Illustration Visual Thesis Exhibition, which was entitled 13 Stories.  It is while visiting the exhibit that I discovered a cool Pink Thing created by FIT student and MFA candidate Necdet Yilmaz, who is a native of Turkey.  Necdet’s visual thesis, Happy Tank, is a story about a little machine built for war that doesn’t want to fight. Happy Tank must be sent to war, but refuses to fire at a large building where a child is seen crying. For disobeying the order, Happy Tank is decommissioned and melted down. The story concludes with Happy Tank being recycled and used to construct a playground years after the war is over. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Happy Tank →

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Eye On Design: 3D Printed Bone Dress By Iris van Herpen

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Bone Dress
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This disquieting dress is 3D printed, and the 3D file was developed by designer Iris van Herpen along with architect Isaie Bloch. The file-making took two months of intense drawing and a full week of printing in a very sophisticated machine. According to van Herpen, “People often think that when you create something by machine, it is perfect, but this dress is a good example of the opposite. While the dress was printing, many small ‘faults’ happened because of the intense heating of the material. This makes the bones irregular, and makes it look even more real.”

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