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“Gallinas & Focas”, a wine rich in human content
‘Gallinas y Focas’ Hens and Seals is a wine rich in human content, the fruit of a collaboration between Amadip Esment and 4kilos vineyard. Amadip Esment is an organization for people with mental disabilities, who along with their families get to enjoy an improved quality of life and share the same opportunities as other citizens. 4 kilos and amadip esment collaborate on this project in which those with disabilities are the[Read More]
Doyald Young, Logotype Designer
Lets talk today about a Logotype Designer called Doyald Young. From humble beginnings in a small Texas town eight decades ago comes legendary typographer, logotype designer, author, and teacher Doyald Young. As elegant as his script fonts and as wise as his set of Oxford English dictionaries, Young sets the standard for his craft. Friend and designer Stefan Bucher describes[Read More]
Contraption painting machine by François Xavier Saint Georges
Assembled from chinese brushes and medical equipment, the low-tech automata creates ‘endless line’ ink paintings. Created by canadian designer François Xavier Saint Georges, ‘contraption’ is an autonomous painting machine, capable of creating a ‘never-ending line’ of paint. The low-tech device is composed of medical equipment like syringes and tubing, chinese brushes, and paper with an electric motor, that together continuously run a[Read More]
Oxxford Clothes, 1916
Today we are coming with a different topic from the previous ones. Jacob and Louis Weinberg founded Oxxford Clothes in 1916 with a mission to establish the standard by which all men’s tailored clothing is judged. The Weinbergs were determined that no possible fineness in craftsmanship or material be overlooked in the achievement of that purpose. Today, the Oxxford mission[Read More]
GLUSION – SCI-ARC & X-LAB STUDIO
GLUSION | Experiments focusing on free form fabrication and material research X-LAB STUDIO @ Sci-Arc Robotics & Simulations LAB (SRSL) | Spring 2012 | Los Angeles, CA William Hu | Haleh Olfati | Jasmine H. Park IN THE SEARCH OF NEW MATERIALS AND FABRICATION METHODOLOGIES, GLUSIONS’ APPROACH ESTABLISHES A CONSTANT DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF A MATERIAL AND THE[Read More]
RoCoCo- Robotic Confections & Sci-Arc
RoCoCo | Robotic Confections & Confabulations @ Sci-Arc Robotics & Simulations LAB (SRSL) | Spring 2012 | Los Angeles, CA William Hu | Haleh Olfati | Jasmine H. Park RoCoCo focuses on machines for drawing and painting using the state of the art SCI-Arc Robotics and Simulation Lab and purpose built Maya interface ‘esperant.0′ Instructor: Devyn Weiser Assistants: Nazareth Ekmekjian[Read More]
The DIWire Bender – Pensa
The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2D or 3D shapes. Wire unwinds from a spool, passes through a series of wheels that straighten it, and then feeds through the bending head, which moves around in 3 dimensions to create the desired bends and curves. Vector files (e.g., Adobe Illustrator files), text files[Read More]
Kami spin – ett la ben
Cellulose is one of the key components of natural origins. It occurs in almost every plant and is therefore the largest natural resource on our planet. In comparison to other natural resources the deposit of cellulose is endless and the material is absolutely harmless and biodegradable. The very light material can be mixed to pulp by simply adding water. The quality[Read More]
