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Awesome Posters Use Science and Design to Freak Kids Out

29 Jun, 2011 by in ROCKIN'

There’s nothing like hanging something completely random in a child’s room to make them flip out and question reality. I’ve always preferred turning their stuffed animals into mechanized creatures that fly soup into their mouths. They enjoy it AND it’s healthy. Some people just like to draw baby giraffes with big eyes on the wall and others prefer to use programs to compile art from Hawaiian volcanoes, voice waveforms and walking geometry with pincers to spark a child’s creativity. The last just so happens to be the case with the incredibly cool Here to There poster series from Design I/O. It’s a monochrome mash-up of all sorts of objects and illustration, built through algorithms channeling nature and design. Want to see the details?

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For When You Need a Hardcore 3D Nuclear Reactor Cut-away Fix

28 Dec, 2009 by in ROCKIN'

The only feeling better than jabbing a syringe full of highly volatile nuclear material into my chest, is jabbing a syringe full of nuclear reactor cut-aways of the 3D variant into my eyeholes.

Prepare for a chain reaction of mildly tingling proportions that may send your 3D appeal into a mile-wide meltdown. For those that grew up in the old days, cut-away and other tech illustrations hold a special spot in the heart right next to that spot that loves to store old engineering scales, vellum and the yawns of cranky old drafters.

These reactors are on my new fav list of cut-aways to collect and I think you’ll like’em too.

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The Surreal Artform of Anthony Tammaro’s Rhino/SolidWorks Modeling

18 Feb, 2009 by in DESIGN

anthony-tammaroDo you ever wake up from a dream, encapsulated in a bony structure surrounded by a translucent fleshy film? Not recently huh? Well, Anthony Tammaro is an artist from Philadelphia exploring that world and the medium of create art with 3D CAD, CAM and Additive Fabrication.

We looked at DDM (Direct Digital manufacturing) with 3D Color Printing yesterday. Anthony is the perfect example of putting this to use, turning designs into art that also happen to be product.

Curious about the process? I was and caught up with him via email. Here’s what he had to say…
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Salvador Dali Says Your 3D Product Design is INSANE

20 Aug, 2008 by in DESIGN, ROCKIN'

It’s both parametrically intense and oddly invigorating to look at. It’s like jumping in the air through a small hole and coming out on the other side with all the knowledge of perspective while marching rhythmically outside the confines of an inverted parallelogram.

What is it? Surrealism. An artistic expression of the early 1900′s that captured the fantasy of la-la-la reality and spread it like thick butter on minds across the world.

Defining it as an offshoot of Marxism and Freudian thought limits and ultimately destroys the passions many of the artist were trying to capture…

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I really want to show you is some of the coolest examples and the paintings that inspire me. They magnify the field of 3D CAD we’re in, in a way that even some artists could not imagine in their art.

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Rockin’ Cool: Picasso’s Guernica in 3D

01 Jul, 2008 by in ROCKIN'

Lena Gieseke has taken Picasso Guernica and transformed it into a version of the painting that will leave you deeply immersed in the canvas of the Cubist master, Picasso.

Guernica has got to be incredible to see up close (it’s currently at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain), But when you look at it broken into all it’s little bits and pan around it like you’re actually there, you come away with an intense visual of what Picasso was sensing as he made each brush stroke.
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The Amazing Art of CAD and CNC

26 May, 2008 by in DESIGN

I’m loving what Steven Kempton, from the Ponoko Blog, and his new band of writers (David, Duann, Roy, and Indigo) are putting out. They look at all the different aspects that surround manufacturing, art and design.

David posted an item I recognized, the Demakersvan Cinderella table, but hadn’t given much thought to in the past. Once you realized it’s a creation of CAD and CNC, you either think, that’s impossible, or dang… what else could I make.

The Cinderella table, featured in a MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) Exhibit a couple years ago, is an artistic approach to what is possible with CAD and CNC. This table was created from sketches of furniture scanned, turned into 3D geometry and cut from 57 layers of birch plywood. When you see the 360 view at the Demakersvan site you’ll understand the complexity… but also an amazing simplicity.