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Addicted to your smartphone? This robotic third eye will help you walk while looking at your screen Ask yourself this honest question, how much time do you spend looking at your phone? In fact, how often have you bumped into something as you were walking while looking down? Smartphones and their instant gratification reward your brain’s hormones with stimulus to keep you wanting even more. It’s a whirlpool that many fall into, but only a few have the determination not to get sucked into it. While most people would ask you to refrain from looking at the phone screen, industrial designer Minwook Paeng empathized and culminated the idea of a robotic third eye. This gadget can be fixed to the wearer’s ...

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MagSafe accessories that are the best investments of 2021 for your Apple devices! The arrival of the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro models was accompanied by the reinvention and return of MagSafe. This lead to a whole new world of accessories being unleashed! Designers and creatives were racing to create a whole range of products for the repurposed MagSafe. And we’ve been loving every bit of it! From an aluminum MagSafe wallet that snaps onto your phone, to a pair of TWS earbuds – there’s a MagSafe accessory out there for your every need. And, we’ve curated a bunch of products that we truly believe are worth buying and investing in. This army ...

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Create Some Awesome Camera Shots While in Quarantine Times are hard for everyone in this new normal, photographers included. It’s difficult to capture the “essence of life” (or whatever you’d like to call it), when that life is limited to the confines of your own home.
Or is it?

Photographer Jordi Koalitic shows a number of photography tricks you can use to get the most out of your extended time at home. You might not have the same high-end Sony A7RIII camera he owns, but you can definitely use your imagination to think up some amazing perspectives and shots. And that’s completely free.
Hair Ties Make for ...

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This multifunctional side table transforms into a chair and make the most of tiny living! Living in tight city corners is a finicky job– you have to make the most of your space, no matter how small. Studio apartments and tiny living spaces can make it feel difficult to have control over the space because delineating different rooms without overcrowding the place can feel impossible. In designing a chair specifically built for small living spaces in the city, NG Architects created Spring, a multifunctional table that blooms into a chair with a backrest at the push of a button.
Spring comprises a cylindrical shape that increases or decreases in height according to its desired function. ...

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This versatile fold-out incline bench gives you the full gym experience within your home The most perceivable design flaw with exercise products is that they’re designed just for utility, not for aesthetics or convenience. The Peloton or your treadmill is a great piece of exercising equipment, but it’s not designed mindfully to integrate well into your carefully decorated home, putting your house at an aesthetic disadvantage (let’s also not forget that not every home is big enough to fit an entire stationary bicycle). Sure, you could just go to the gym once they open (although who knows when that’s going to happen), but recent surveys show that globally, 27.5% of gym members claim they ...

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Flat-packed product designs that showcase the minimalism and flexibility of this technique! Flat-packed designs are really quite intriguing! They’re portable, easy to put together and occupy minimum space. And, this innovative technique is now being introduced to almost all kinds of product designs! From foldable furniture designs to photo studios and stationery, there’s nothing that cannot be flat-packed. These designs, not only rate high on space efficiency, but also eliminate the usage of heavier space-consuming designs. They are definitely functionally and ergonomically beneficial, but they also possess minimal and clean aesthetics, that allow them to harmoniously blend with any living space. Flat-packed designs are the future!
It’s worth noticing how the OO ...

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Anthropologie’s reusable cutlery nest into each other to become an easy-to-carry bundle There are a combination of reasons why people just prefer disposable cutlery over carrying their own… probably the biggest of them is the fact that the flatware we use at home isn’t designed for travel. Sustainability’s biggest barrier is that it isn’t always the most convenient of solutions – although that’s where some good old-fashioned design thinking and problem-solving kick in. Anthropologie’s Reusable Travel Flatware makes it easy to have all your cutlery together with you wherever you travel. With a neat nesting design, the three-piece set becomes a singular bundle that slides right into your travel bag or backpack, ...

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These iPhone wallpapers automatically change to reflect your phone’s battery level! Using a clever technique hidden within Apple Shortcuts, Ben Vessey’s dynamic wallpapers for the Apple iPhone have the quirky ability to reflect your phone’s battery level. For now, the wallpapers have three stages – Full Battery, Low Battery, and Charging.
You may remember Vessey’s work from a while ago when he debuted the retro iOS icon collection that turned your state-of-the-art smartphone into the ultimate Apple throwback machine. Having worked with Shortcuts before, Vessey’s latest experiment turns your wallpaper into a massive battery indicator. With beautifully designed artworks, these wallpapers alter as the battery level changes, telling you when it’s ...

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This flat-packed pasta morphs into a 3D shape when cooked, promoting sustainable food packaging! When we buy pasta sold in plastic bags or boxes, 60% of its packaging space is reserved for air. The packaging used to contain food items like pasta is a major contributor to landfills in the United States. As we slowly make attempts toward a more sustainable future, understanding the waste that food packaging produces provides a viable starting point. Inevitably, the ways we consume food and package food will become more sustainable and a team of researchers in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and Syracuse University turned to flat-packing authentic Italian pasta to find out the ways to do ...

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elago’s Apple Pencil protective case turns your stylus into a nostalgic rubber-tip graphite pencil I don’t know about you, but those generic yellow pencils with pink erasers were a very strong part of my childhood. I practically grew up on them, developed a love for sketching, took on a career in Industrial Design, and I’m finally here, reliving those fond memories through elago’s Apple Pencil cover cases.
Designed to evoke a sense of nostalgia, elago’s Apple Pencil (2nd Gen) covers come with that familiar hexagonal pencil aesthetic, complete with the rubber-tip at the back. Slip them onto your Pencil and apart from giving you a blast from the past, the covers enhance your grip, ...

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This height-adjustable desk works across the ages – from school to work life! McKinsey’s research on the impact of work from home post covid says, “To determine how extensively remote work might persist after the pandemic, we analyzed its potential across more than 2,000 tasks used in some 800 occupations in the eight focus countries. Considering only remote work that can be done without a loss of productivity, we find that about 20 to 25 percent of the workforces in advanced economies could work from home between three and five days a week.” Based on this report, online teaching will remain the norm ever since the pandemic hit our lives, and the trend ...

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Be a Spider Using This Fiber Hookchain We all know Spider-Man through his abilities to shoot and swing from his own webs. He produces them using the man-made web shooters on his wrists. It isn’t a superpower at all – it’s the result of Peter Parker’s scientific prowess.
Countless people have since tried to recreate the fictional character’s web shooters in the real world. Grappling hooks, ropes, actual spider silk – you name it, chances are someone in a Spider-Man costume has swung from it.
But few actually try to understand the science behind Spider-Man’s webbing. That’s what JT of Built IRL tried to do. He discovered ...

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How to Casting Wasp Nest in Resin Despite being home to hundreds of dangerous insects, many people’s first thought when they see a wasp nest is to poke a stick at it.
That’s the first thought. Once the wasps have evacuated their home and finished stinging everything in sight, these people would probably look for an act of revenge. Well, we’ll tell you how to do it in an artistic way as this is exactly what Ben from Ben’s Worx had in mind.
With some leftover wasp nest from a previous project, he decided the best way to make use of it was to cast it in ...

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Clever Framing and Scaling Make Original “Jurassic Park” Larger Than Life If you’ve seen the newer Jurassic World films and compared them to the original Jurassic Park movie from 1993, you’ll notice a certain lack of wonder. The dinosaurs seem smaller, less intimidating, and more of a backdrop than the centerpiece.
You could chalk this up to nostalgia, but YouTuber Films&Stuff thinks the beauty of the original Jurassic Park stems mostly from Steven Spielberg’s masterful directing.

There are a lot of elements that make the movie look larger than life, but Spielberg focuses on two: scale and framing. With some clever camera work, he conveys the mood and tone of ...

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You Can Draw in Perspective Inside SOLIDWORKS? Disclaimer: This exercise was purely for experimental and exploratory purposes. Although I hoped that I would gain insights on how to better sketch in perspective by transferring the 2 point cube sketch into SOLIDWORKS, the success of the exercise wasn’t tied to the outcome. Sometimes, it’s fun to try things and follow one’s instinct and see where it may lead.
Article: You can become a better mechanical design engineer by improving your capability to visually think and sketch in perspective. In essence, sketching is a cycle of iteration that allows you to flush out your ideas on paper. The process ...

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Does Twisting a Ratchet Strap Decrease Its Load Capacity? It’s one of those myths only people who transport heavy loads will know about. According to rumor, if you twist a ratchet strap by even a little, you are effectively reducing its load capacity by 50%.
While it is true that adding a twist to a taut ratchet strap reduces the slack and tension, there haven’t been some tests regarding the load capacity. That’s exactly why Jason from Fireball Tool decided to test out a bunch of different tying styles on multiple ratchet straps to see if there is any truth to the myth:

To simulate a moving vehicle ...

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Wooden Uzi as Answer to Your Jenga Problems Ah, Jenga – the game you play when you’re tired of board games. Instead of requiring any real knowledge of a game’s rules, Jenga relies more on depth perception, an innate knowledge of physics, and very, very careful hands.
Sadly, not all of us have the dexterity to play such a game. When so much rides on taking and placing a single block, it’s only natural for anxiety to kick in. So how do you get around having butterfingers?
Why, make yourself a wooden Uzi, of course!

Now to be fair, the Uzi made by YouTube creator The Q ...

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Make Your Own Axe Out of Pieces of Rebar The head of a common axe is usually made from a single, solid piece of metal. Not only does this give the tool a more solid cutting surface; it also provides the axe the weight it needs to be swung properly.
This axe by YouTube channel Mr. Inventor may not be the most suitable tool in the shed for chopping chunks of wood, but it definitely gets an award for being an interesting build.
After all, it’s made from rebar.

Most of the outline of this axe was made by bending a single piece of steel rod. With the ...

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YouTuber Clicker Uses Stop Motion Paintings To Create Van Gogh’s Dinner Scene When you hear the words “stop motion”, your mind usually gravitates towards action figures, clay, or LEGO blocks. By placing these objects in different positions in each frame, you can create moving pictures that animate just like a movie.
Inspired by the fully painted film Loving Vincent, YouTube channel Clicker wanted to pay homage to painter Vincent van Gogh in the best way possible: stop motion. Only instead of using toys to create their video, they decided to use handmade paintings:

It sounds easy on paper, but painting in stop motion requires a lot of skill. You have to ...

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Interview: Dr. Logan Graves on How the Huge DKIST Telescope Mirror Was Fabricated In this interview with Dr. Logan Rodriguez Graves, we learn about how gigundous, expensive mirrors in observatory telescopes are made, medical imaging, and other things you can do with a degree in optical science.
Medical Imaging for Diagnosing Colon Cancer
As an undergrad, Graves worked in a University of Arizona group that researched new methods for imaging colon cancer. The “traditional” way to image your innards typically includes drinking a nauseating liquid sludge that makes things fluoresce. Don’t ask me why I intimately know what it’s like to drink that garbage.
The researchers Graves worked with came up with new ...

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This 10kg Giant Ingot Is Made From Copper Wires It takes a LOT of metal to smelt down a solid ingot and sometimes, those metals aren’t always readily available. Gold, for instance, is crazy expensive and you would need to melt a lot of jewelry just to create a single gold nugget.
Copper, on the other hand, is cheap and readily available; provided you know where to look for it. Luckily, one curious guy knows where to get some.
Due to his desperation to create the biggest copper ingot, YouTuber Ingot Joe considered using copper cables as an alternative… lots of copper cables.
Since the copper ingot had to ...

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Heat Gun as Portable Cooking Tool After all those stories about heat gun life hacks and crafts, you probably think that there are no more interesting things left to talk about it. But – no – it turns out it can be used to cook food, as well!
While not that efficient when it comes to time and energy consumption, YouTuber Mr. Hacker showed you can definitely use the heat gun as a replacement for your stove, oven, or toaster.
Instead of harming the environment with a gas stove, you can heat up your food using your heat gun. It will definitely take longer (and I ...

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Addicted to your smartphone? This robotic third eye will help you walk while looking at your screen Ask yourself this honest question, how much time do you spend looking at your phone? In fact, how often have you bumped into something as you were walking while looking down? Smartphones and their instant gratification reward your brain’s hormones with stimulus to keep you wanting even more. It’s a whirlpool that many fall into, but only a few have the determination not to get sucked into it. While most people would ask you to refrain from looking at the phone screen, industrial designer Minwook Paeng empathized and culminated the idea of a robotic third eye. This gadget can be fixed to the wearer’s forehead, who is too busy looking down at the smartphone. You know where we are heading, don’t you?
Yes, the 3rd Eye keeps a lookout on obstacles as you walk on the street, with the phone screen keeping you preoccupied. The inbuilt ultrasonic sensor automatically detects whenever your head is tilted down to check the phone and beeps a warning buzz when a hazard is detected up to a distance of one meter. This niche creation is a part of Minwook’s Innovation Design Engineering degree at London’s Royal Imperial College of Art and Imperial College. The designer sees this evolution of human beings as a sarcastic imagination for him to do something creative. He labels the evolution as “phono sapiens,” and understandably so, seeing how we are so deeply lost in the world of the internet. How do you identify a phono sapien? With their forward-leaning neck vertebrae resulting in the dreaded turtle neck syndrome!
The DIY project makes use of the Arduino platform and a camera to do all the fancy sensing. There’s a gyroscope to detect the phone’s orientation, and a sonar sensor detects the movement as soon as the head is angled down. To keep the gadget stuck tightly to the forehead, Minwook used a thin gel pad that attaches to the skin without damaging it. The designer expresses his point of view by saying that “The smartphone has permeated into modern life so deeply that it’s impossible to deny the evolution of phono sapiens.” So what do you think about this freaky gadget? Would you sport one as a part of your life, or maybe look up at the world around you with your own two eyes!
Designer: Minwook Paeng

MagSafe accessories that are the best investments of 2021 for your Apple devices! The arrival of the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro models was accompanied by the reinvention and return of MagSafe. This lead to a whole new world of accessories being unleashed! Designers and creatives were racing to create a whole range of products for the repurposed MagSafe. And we’ve been loving every bit of it! From an aluminum MagSafe wallet that snaps onto your phone, to a pair of TWS earbuds – there’s a MagSafe accessory out there for your every need. And, we’ve curated a bunch of products that we truly believe are worth buying and investing in. This army of accessories will truly amp up your Apple experience!
The Snapods by Scendo are a pair of TWS Earbuds that come with a flat case that snaps right to the back of your phone. Building wonderfully on the capabilities of the MagSafe feature introduced in the latest iPhones, the Snapods make carrying earphones convenient. Just snap them to the back of your phone and you’ve got yourself a pair of earphones that are easy to store, quick to access, and hard to lose. The case’s design is inspired directly by where it’s located. Made to sit against the back of your phone, the Snapods case comes with a flat, wedge-shaped profile, making it easy to slip your phone into your pocket. The slim case doesn’t just dock the earphones, it charges them too, giving you an impressive 45 hours of playtime.
Meet the Fantom C, a MagSafe wallet designed to complement the Apple iPhone in durability and function. It comes machined from a Cerakoted billet of aluminum. The ceramic coating on the Aluminum makes it tougher and more abrasion-resistant, while a neat carbon-fiber finish on the surface of the wallet gives it a much more reliable and rugged appeal. Designed as a piece of EDC that pairs beautifully with your iPhone 12, the Fantom C gives you a dedicated space to store your cards right on the back of your phone. Magnets on its rear-side allow it to snap to the iPhone with a satisfying click, and at 0.31 inches (8 mm) thick, it’s marginally thicker than Apple’s own MagSafe wallet, but then again, the Fantom C is also capable of much more.
Moment, the Seattle-based accessories company specializing in phone camera gear has created a bunch of iPhone 12 series accessories that inherently have some kind of camera utility. There’s a whole bunch of cases, tripod mounts, and car vent mounts with MagSafe compatibility that add to the functionality of your Apple phone. First up, the cases come in two broader variations – a thinner version for better ergonomic feel in hand and the other, a more rugged one for more protection in event of accidental drops. All these cases have wrist strap loops and can endure a 6-foot drop. The cases priced at around $50 are compatible with the M-Series Moment lens system and they also work with the Moment Mounts. For photography addicts, Moment has a lineup of Tripod Mounts that have a very strong magnetic system for extra strength. These mounts work even without the case and are compatible with ¼-inch to 20-inch tripods, so you are good to go with any tripod.
The CLIP is a wireless power bank designed to snap onto the back of your phone either using MagSafe (for newer iPhone models) or using an adhesive clip (for older iPhones and Android devices). In doing so, the device aligns with the smartphone’s wireless charging coil, allowing it to charge the phone’s battery on the fly, without any cables. However, the CLIP doesn’t just add an extra external battery to the back of your phone, it also adds a kickstand that can be used in both landscape and portable formats. A metal component (shaped sort of like a carabiner clip) wraps around the power bank and can be opened out to let you prop your phone vertically or horizontally while it’s charging.
I wouldn’t outright call Grovemade old-fashioned, but rather I’d say their work is a confluence of sensibilities and materials. Primarily relying on wood and metal to craft their products, Grovemade’s designs boast of an old-world charm that’s also intertwined with modern minimalism. Take for instance the Wood MagSafe Stand, available in both Walnut and Maple variants. The stand, which sports a wooden halo mounted on a steel base, allows you to slip your iPhone MagSafe wireless charger in, routing the cable from the bottom. It then gives your iPhone 12 a nice, wooden armchair to hang out on, letting you rest it in either landscape or portrait while it charges.
The return of MagSafe has unleashed the creatives and accessory companies are racing to make the most of this feature. Front of the race is Belkin’s MagSafe Car Vent Mount PRO for iPhone 12 that lets you safely mount your iPhone 12 and keep it in your view – be it landscape or portrait mode. Best of all, the powerful magnet offers a seamless, one-handed use that keeps you driving stress-free!
Modeled on the concept of the MagSafe charger, the MagRig works with all Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C devices, which means not only does it bring the magnetic charging port back to the MacBook, it also works with the iPad Pro, most Android phones, the Nintendo Switch, and any device that use a Type-C connector. The two-part adapter attaches itself to both the port as well as the jack, giving you the satisfying magnetic click whenever you plug a device in. The magnetic connection even helps prevent damage caused by accidental cable tugs. Instead of your phone, iPad, or laptop flying right off the table because your dog snagged the wire while running around the house, the MagRig detaches with graceful choreography, keeping your gadgets safe from physical damage.
With a 100% recycled plastic body and a lifetime warranty, the Gomi Wireless Mag Charger helps reduce plastic waste as well as e-waste. UK-based sustainable design studio Gomi first hit the airwaves back in 2019 with its Bluetooth speaker designed entirely out of plastic waste. The company sought to exclusively use non-recyclable plastics (single-use plastic bags, bubble wrap, etc.) that would otherwise be dumped in oceans, sent to landfills, or incinerated. Working together with small businesses, global corporations, and recycling plants, Gomi developed a way to reuse this non-recyclable plastic as a raw material. Using the natural color variation between the different plastic products, the molding process helped create a marbled pattern that was unique to each device, allowing Gomi to effectively recycle the plastic and upscale it into a wonderful product.
Vulcan isn’t a replacement for wireless charging but is just a remarkably better cable with truly unique features that are designed to work universally across all your devices. Designed to power everything from your Xbox controller to your laptop, the Vulcan cable comes with the ability to deliver up to 100W of power and connects to your devices using a series of magnetic pins. Just plug these magnetic pins into the charging ports of your devices, and they create an interface for Vulcan to snap to, quite like the MagSafe connectors you’d see in MacBooks from before 2016. Different magnetic pins allow you to connect the same cable to a variety of devices. MicroUSB pins work perfectly for gaming controllers and Bluetooth speakers, while the Lightning pin lets you charge the iPhone and your AirPods.
The Belkin BOOST↑CHARGE PRO MagSafe 3-in-1 Wireless Charger charges all of your Apple devices in one go! You can use this super fast magnetic stand to charge your iPhone, Airpods and even your Apple Watch simultaneously. Amped with a clean and modern look, this MagSafe accessory provides a wireless charge of up to 15W. Quite fast, no?

Create Some Awesome Camera Shots While in Quarantine Times are hard for everyone in this new normal, photographers included. It’s difficult to capture the “essence of life” (or whatever you’d like to call it), when that life is limited to the confines of your own home.
Or is it?

Photographer Jordi Koalitic shows a number of photography tricks you can use to get the most out of your extended time at home. You might not have the same high-end Sony A7RIII camera he owns, but you can definitely use your imagination to think up some amazing perspectives and shots. And that’s completely free.
Hair Ties Make for Some Amazing Outlines
For instance, did you know you can slap all sorts of things to the side of your camera lens with an elastic hair tie? Bunch up some flowers on the outlines of your shot to give the impression that you’re taking pictures from inside a garden. Sure you can do this if you have an actual garden, but this trick is specifically for those folks living in apartments or areas without much space.
What’s in the Fridge?
Want to capture the inside of a fridge without busting open the rear wall? Try taking out the shelves and placing beer bottles to evenly space them apart.
To make the “fridge” look more believable, stack a couple of perishables like fruits and butter to the top shelf. As a final touch, spray the bottles with some water to add some fake condensation around them. No one will ever know you’re taking your photos from atop your kitchen table.
Washing Without a Machine
Most people know what the inside of a washing machine looks like by the hole-riddled drum inside it. What they don’t know is you can pop off the said drum and use it to make some awesome shots.
By taking the drum off and putting it into a cardboard box, you can stack a bunch of clothes on the bottom and make it look like the camera is inside a washing machine. As icing on the cake, spray some water to make it look like the clothes just got out of a spin.
Library Shots
Can’t go to the library for a photoshoot? That’s okay, most libraries hate the noise anyway.
Kidding aside, you can set a library scene quite easily in your own home, provided you have the books to do so.
Just like with the fridge trick, you can set your camera between an outline of books stacked atop each other. Then all you need is a subject with a book in their hands. Strap on some LEDs to the book page and you have yourself a well-lit library shot.
Chores with Ambiance
Who says chores have to look boring? With a good camera and perspective, any shot can be cool.
Just take a look at this shot of a clothes iron. By turning up the stream, you can create this ominous, almost foggy effect around your ironing board. Flattening your pants will never look the same again.
There are other examples Jordi Koalitic shows in the video, but these either use the same tricks in the shots I’ve mentioned before or require a very good camera with high shutter speeds.
The whole video is definitely worth watching, as it will no doubt spark new ideas for shots you never knew you could recreate at home.

This multifunctional side table transforms into a chair and make the most of tiny living! Living in tight city corners is a finicky job– you have to make the most of your space, no matter how small. Studio apartments and tiny living spaces can make it feel difficult to have control over the space because delineating different rooms without overcrowding the place can feel impossible. In designing a chair specifically built for small living spaces in the city, NG Architects created Spring, a multifunctional table that blooms into a chair with a backrest at the push of a button.
Spring comprises a cylindrical shape that increases or decreases in height according to its desired function. At its lowest height of 500mm, Spring serves as a simple side table with a natural wood top. Then, by simply pressing the table down, Spring’s built-in compression springs are activated and morph the side table into a chair with a backrest. By following the same pushing tactic, the Spring chair can reach its maximum height of 900mm, transforming into a table that can work as a centerpiece for a small studio space. While the main building material used to construct Spring is oak wood, the furniture’s compression springs are made from aluminum, while natural and white paint colors coat the sides and top of Spring.
Named after the Spring season, the chair’s transformation is reminiscent of a flower blooming. The clever use of built-in compression springs gives double credence to the chair’s name and provides the chair with multifunctionality without having to take up more space. Designed specifically for tiny living spaces, Spring uses modern building practices and classic design principles to create simple, yet multifunctional pieces of furniture that open up to meet your space where it’s already at.
Designer: NG Architects
Inspired by a flower bud, NG Architects built Spring for practical purposes in small living spaces, creating more functionality while not overcrowding the space.
Five aluminum springs hold a clamp lever that morphs Spring into its different forms when activated.

This versatile fold-out incline bench gives you the full gym experience within your home The most perceivable design flaw with exercise products is that they’re designed just for utility, not for aesthetics or convenience. The Peloton or your treadmill is a great piece of exercising equipment, but it’s not designed mindfully to integrate well into your carefully decorated home, putting your house at an aesthetic disadvantage (let’s also not forget that not every home is big enough to fit an entire stationary bicycle). Sure, you could just go to the gym once they open (although who knows when that’s going to happen), but recent surveys show that globally, 27.5% of gym members claim they do not intend to return to their gym after the pandemic is over. Working from home is the new norm, and working out from home should be too… that’s where the FLiPBENCH comes in.
Meet the FLiPBENCH by Brazyn Life – a versatile wall-mounted fold-out bench that’s ideal for all kinds of apartments, big and small, and even your studio or your garage. Designed to be compact and aesthetic when closed, the FLiPBENCH sits flat against your wall until you need to exercise. When it’s workout time, the bench opens right out, creating a dedicated workout nook/area within your flat without ruining your home’s decor or eating into your apartment’s floor space… and the best part? You have the option to add a colored back panel that matches your wall, allowing it to blend right into your home’s decor.
“The idea is to allow people to create this perfect home fitness nook that can fit in almost any room,” says Brazyn CEO Nate Lawrie, a former NFL Player. “Most people don’t have the space to dedicate an entire room to a home gym. But if they have 17 inches of wall space and about a 7ft x 7ft area of open floor space in front of it, they can quickly convert that space into a gym-quality workout area.” This flexibility and versatility mean you can have your own dedicated fold-out gym anywhere. The only thing you need is motivation!
The FLiPBENCH sits flat against the wall when closed, allowing you to have a fold-out gym without sacrificing too much floor-space. With a wall-mounted base, the bench gives you a perfectly stable surface for a wide variety of workouts. The inclining backrest has 5 different positions, allowing you to do lifts, sit-ups, crunches, etc. You can lay the bench flat and use it for step-up exercises, or even fold it into the wall and hook resistance bands to its wall-mounted base for stretching and resistance-based exercises. The bench can be set up in a mere 2 seconds, and its sturdy steel and wood construction can take on a load of up to 600lb (272 kgs), allowing you to easily work out even with heavy weights.
Designed by Brazyn Life (you may remember them from their Shark Tank appearance in Season 9), the FLiPBENCH expands on their personal workout equipment range. After launching the Morph Collapsible Foam Roller which became a staple in locker rooms of the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB, Brazyn Life’s FLiPBENCH helps the workout-from-home generation get a gym-quality workout right at home without sacrificing big bucks or a lot of floor space. It’s perfect for a small apartment, but even for larger ones where you don’t necessarily want your gym equipment ruining your home’s decor. The FLiPBENCH is available for an earlybird price of $299 (with an additional $10 discount for YD readers), and for $373 you can even grab a Morph Roller and some resistance bands along with your space-saving workout bench.
Designers: Tyler Susko & Nate Lawrie of Brazyn Life
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FLiPBENCH – World’s Most Space-Saving Incline Bench
The wall-mounted FLiPBENCH easily transforms any living space into your workout space. Simply flip it down.
FLiPBENCH Demo
They constructed a stage to install the FLiPBENCH onto and took it to a local spot for anyone to try. The following are their genuine reactions and reviews.
Fits Anywhere
With a footprint of less than 1-sq ft, you can choose to install your bench in any room you choose.
Matches your Style
With different color options and high-end materials, this product matches your mood/life.
Features & Benefits
FLiPBENCH is a pro-quality incline bench that can hold up to 600 lbs. It can be positioned flat, inclined, or upright so you can get the same workout at home that you would get at the gym. Use with your favorite dumbbells or resistance bands.
FLiPBENCH is spring loaded to make pulling it down and putting it up a safe and easy task. It takes just 2 seconds to pull it down and you’re ready to work out. When you’re done, just flip it up and it’s completely out of the way.
No more driving to the gym or paying for your gym membership.
Working-out with FLiPBENCH
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Flat-packed product designs that showcase the minimalism and flexibility of this technique! Flat-packed designs are really quite intriguing! They’re portable, easy to put together and occupy minimum space. And, this innovative technique is now being introduced to almost all kinds of product designs! From foldable furniture designs to photo studios and stationery, there’s nothing that cannot be flat-packed. These designs, not only rate high on space efficiency, but also eliminate the usage of heavier space-consuming designs. They are definitely functionally and ergonomically beneficial, but they also possess minimal and clean aesthetics, that allow them to harmoniously blend with any living space. Flat-packed designs are the future!
It’s worth noticing how the OO Stool does such a great job of combining sustainability along with technology and a pinch of heritage. Made from a single board of bamboo plywood, the stool is CNC machine-cut in a way that integrates every single aspect of the stool into its design. Everything you need to build the OO Stool sits within that flat-packed jigsaw puzzle of bamboo pieces, minimizing waste by using as much negative space as possible. The legs form the outside, while the dual-layered seat of the stool sits on the inside, with the negative space being filled by tiny rectangular pieces that help lock the stool in place, and even a bamboo hammer to help assemble the stool! The OO Stool uses absolutely no glue, screws, or nails… just really smart designing and Japanese joinery techniques.
Ekaterina Tiholova designed her version of an electric scooter, and to be honest…it looks like a flat-packed one! Tiholova’s scooter features a plain black base supported by two bulbous wheels. Its metallic grey and matte black looks are eye-catching, with a flash of lime yellow where you hold onto the handle, sealing the deal. The intricately treaded front wheel leads up to a quadrilateral-shaped handle, the scooter’s most unique feature! The handle provides you with a strong grip, allowing you to maneuver the electric scooter, however, when not in use it can be folded back so that it lays directly above the base of the scooter. Once folded, the scooter resembles a sleek platform, one that can be easily stored away.
How cool would it be if we could roll up our furniture just like we roll up our clothes to save space right? Well, designer Richard Price kind of make it happen by creating Plus+ – a flat-packed furniture system that maximizes living space and minimizes storage space! Plus+ fits your needs and comes with multiple configurations. The flexible furniture system increases its likelihood to adapt by using a snap-together frame with a joint system across the whole range. The modular design can be easily be assembled and upgraded with new features or additional accessories which enables it to grow with your needs or new spaces.
Products can be functionally beneficial and aesthetically beautiful without having to be complicated. Fold Lamp proves just this. Destined for a life within a domestic dining room, the magnesium lamp is elegantly suspended from the ceiling, introducing a gentle glow to the room. However, elegant aesthetics aside, it’s the consideration to the manufacture of the product that makes this project so intriguing. Constructed out of a single piece of magnesium that has been efficiently metal-stamped, Fold Lamp doesn’t require any additional hardware! So, what benefit does this have? Well visually distinctive form aside, in the unfolded orientation, it can significantly reduce shipping expenses from international manufacturers!
Created using merino felt wool and birch wood, the Wool Lodge is a safe haven of sorts for your pet. You can arrange and form the flat-packed structure by yourself easily. The lodge features merino felt roof, with the rest of the structure being made from wood. Defleur’s lodge basically has two functions. Spacious enough to fit your cat’s litter box, the lodge shelters the box within its structure. Your cat can sneak away, and pee or poop in privacy, away from any prying eyes. On the other hand, you can install a soft cushion or mattress instead of a litter box in the lodge. This creates a personal space for your pet, it could be a cat or a doggo on the smaller side! Whenever your pet wants to simply relax and getaway, they can hop into the shelter, safe from any external noises or extreme temperatures.
With the Foldio3, tongue-tantalizing photographs are just literally a portfolio case and 10 seconds away. While most traditional photo set-ups comprise a room full of equipment and hours of setting up, the Foldio3’s innovative design puts all of that into a small flat-packed case that can fit right under your arm. Open it out and assemble it using the magnetic locks and you have yourself a studio-grade lightbox for your product photography. On the top of the box are 3 LED strips too, negating the need for those massive bulky studio lights. The Foldio3 comes with two backdrops too, black and white, depending on the kind of shot you need. You can even use your own green backdrop for those green-screen applications.
The Folpen is tinier and more compact than your usual pen, however, what sets it apart are its components. The pen comprises of an ink refill and a plastic sheath. Surrounded by a ribbed plastic sheath, resembling the covers used to protect our iPads and tablets, the refill is enveloped by the sheath, forming the pen’s body. With the sheath folded around the refill, it snuggles comfortably within and only its much-needed nib peeks out. On folding it, the cover forms a triangular flat-packed structure around the refill, creating a pen with an ergonomic form that is easy to hold and operate, as well as to carry around. The end of the cover has been equipped with a magnet, so you simply wrap the folded pen onto a book, and it attaches itself to the book instantly.
Nube is a dish drainer or a drying rack that can be easily assembled and disassembled as a…you guessed it, puzzle! Crafted from plastic, Nube comes in the form of a white rectangular panel, the varied parts of the drying rack (like puzzle pieces) have to be pulled out from the flat sheet and carefully assembled! Nube can be put together without the use of any tool. All that’s needed is some rational thinking and patience. Nube’s disassociative nature makes it super portable, and a kitchen product that can be easily carried whenever the need arises. It can be easily disassembled, to create more space in the kitchen, hence making it a product that rates high on space efficiency as well.
This flatpack design unfolds into a layered lamp! Spinel is a hanging light designed to be easily transformed. The main goal was to create a product that didn’t take up too much space and was also sustainable. “Our responsibility as designers is to produce objects that occupy the smallest possible volume. The purpose is to use the least amount of raw material, producing long-lifespan objects that can be easily recycled,” says Guille Cameron. The origami-like form is minimal, elegant, and certainly unique. Unfolding the lamp adds a dynamic layer to the product and the wooden design itself is a warm addition to any space.
This interesting bench concept by Ethan Stoltz has such a substantial 3D footprint that you’d never guess it’s actually capable of being flat-packed! The design is composed of just nine elements including five-leg beams, three support slats, and a clear top. Without any screws or glue, all pieces can be assembled in seconds and fit together snugly to create one robust and sturdy unit. Despite its modern, utilitarian form, its classic material combination of wood and glass/acrylic makes it a natural addition to any space, contemporary or traditional.

Anthropologie’s reusable cutlery nest into each other to become an easy-to-carry bundle There are a combination of reasons why people just prefer disposable cutlery over carrying their own… probably the biggest of them is the fact that the flatware we use at home isn’t designed for travel. Sustainability’s biggest barrier is that it isn’t always the most convenient of solutions – although that’s where some good old-fashioned design thinking and problem-solving kick in. Anthropologie’s Reusable Travel Flatware makes it easy to have all your cutlery together with you wherever you travel. With a neat nesting design, the three-piece set becomes a singular bundle that slides right into your travel bag or backpack, making it easy to carry on that camping trip, or even to work where you can bust it out during your lunch-break.
Made from 100% recyclable and sustainable polyamide thermoplastic that’s manufactured using renewable resources, the Reusable Travel Flatware champions convenience over everything else. Their clever design makes them easy to carry around as a set, and unlike other travel cultery, they don’t compromise on shape/size/comfort to be portable.
Designer: Anthropologie
Each travel flatware set isn’t just designed to be reusable, it’s manufactured out of recyclable plastic too, which means that after years of use, you can safely dispose of it without worrying about generating waste. Providing a much more sustainable alternative to single-use disposable cutlery, one set of Anthropologie’s Reusable Travel Flatware replaces 250 disposable cutlery sets per year, greatly helping to reduce your carbon footprint.

These iPhone wallpapers automatically change to reflect your phone’s battery level! Using a clever technique hidden within Apple Shortcuts, Ben Vessey’s dynamic wallpapers for the Apple iPhone have the quirky ability to reflect your phone’s battery level. For now, the wallpapers have three stages – Full Battery, Low Battery, and Charging.
You may remember Vessey’s work from a while ago when he debuted the retro iOS icon collection that turned your state-of-the-art smartphone into the ultimate Apple throwback machine. Having worked with Shortcuts before, Vessey’s latest experiment turns your wallpaper into a massive battery indicator. With beautifully designed artworks, these wallpapers alter as the battery level changes, telling you when it’s time to juice up.
The Dynamo packs (which are available on Vessey’s website for £3.99) come in two styles with 3 wallpapers each – one containing Apple-inspired artwork, and another with quirky cartoon faces. You can easily install them using Apple Shortcuts (no jailbreak required) on iPhones 6S and beyond. Once installed, the dynamic wallpapers aren’t just about being a quirky little easter-egg… they even help you know when to plug your charger in and when not to. The low-battery wallpaper kicks in when your battery’s at 20%, reminding you that it’s a good time to charge. Now if only there was a dynamic wallpaper that helped me know whether I’m connected to a WiFi network or whether my phone’s running on carrier data!
Designer: Ben Vessey
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This flat-packed pasta morphs into a 3D shape when cooked, promoting sustainable food packaging! When we buy pasta sold in plastic bags or boxes, 60% of its packaging space is reserved for air. The packaging used to contain food items like pasta is a major contributor to landfills in the United States. As we slowly make attempts toward a more sustainable future, understanding the waste that food packaging produces provides a viable starting point. Inevitably, the ways we consume food and package food will become more sustainable and a team of researchers in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and Syracuse University turned to flat-packing authentic Italian pasta to find out the ways to do it.
Inspired by the flat-packing of furniture in efforts to save packaging space and reduce the overall carbon footprint produced during the transportation of goods, a team of researchers decided to see if they could do the same for pasta. When we purchase dry pasta, the shape of the pasta we see in the store is typically the same shape we eat at home, only hopefully cooked. The team behind flat-packed pasta has developed a groove-based shape morphing technique using low-cost manufacturing methods to stamp, mold, or cast the pasta which then transforms into the predetermined shape once cooked. Before curling into its predetermined shape, the pasta, made from semolina flour and water, is stamped with grooves that indicate the direction by which the pasta will curl and bend into shape.
Parametric surface grooving essentially brings on temporary asynchronous swelling or deswelling that transforms flat objects into their preferred three-dimensional shape. The groove-based shape morphing technique allows edible items like pasta to be flat-packed and then change shape when cooked. The process really can be explained when understood through furniture flat-packing. In the same way that flat-packed furniture changes shape after assembly, flat-packed pasta transforms into edible, shapely pasta after cooking.
Designers: Carnegie Mellon University
After being stamped with parametric surface grooves, the pasta can be packed tightly into a container and then morph into shape when cooked.
The grooves work as a preset for each piece of pasta to shape into.

The parametric surface grooving works on an array of differently shaped pasta.
Whether it has a radial or more geometric shape, the surface grooving works to create cubic or round pasta.
The team of researchers explains the cooking process of pasta, “pasta expands and softens as it is boiled due to water diffusion, the relaxation of the macromolecular matrix, and starch gelatinization.”
The shape of food doesn’t only directly impact sustainability in regard to packaging, but it impacts the overall food experience, from taste to consistency.
“Further, the shape of food will also impact the carbon footprint during the cooking process. For example, in Italy, 0.7% to 1% of greenhouse gas emissions are due to cooking pasta, and these emissions could be reduced by half if the shape and cooking processes could be optimized.”
“Flat pasta with surface texture has a larger surface area to volume ratio and can be cooked faster than the ones with an inner cavity (e.g., macaroni).”
Flat-packed pasta could also come in handy for minimal baggage trips like hiking and camping, where storage availability might be limited.
Each piece of pasta is stamped with parametric surface grooving in preparation for packing and cooking.
The grooves on each piece of pasta are either manually stamped or made through an automated machine-stamping process.

elago’s Apple Pencil protective case turns your stylus into a nostalgic rubber-tip graphite pencil I don’t know about you, but those generic yellow pencils with pink erasers were a very strong part of my childhood. I practically grew up on them, developed a love for sketching, took on a career in Industrial Design, and I’m finally here, reliving those fond memories through elago’s Apple Pencil cover cases.
Designed to evoke a sense of nostalgia, elago’s Apple Pencil (2nd Gen) covers come with that familiar hexagonal pencil aesthetic, complete with the rubber-tip at the back. Slip them onto your Pencil and apart from giving you a blast from the past, the covers enhance your grip, thanks to the silicone construction, and protect your hardware from accidental drops and scratches. Moreover, the cover is compatible with the iPad Pro and even supports charging the Pencil by magnetically attaching it to the side of your tablet!
Designer: elago
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This height-adjustable desk works across the ages – from school to work life! McKinsey’s research on the impact of work from home post covid says, “To determine how extensively remote work might persist after the pandemic, we analyzed its potential across more than 2,000 tasks used in some 800 occupations in the eight focus countries. Considering only remote work that can be done without a loss of productivity, we find that about 20 to 25 percent of the workforces in advanced economies could work from home between three and five days a week.” Based on this report, online teaching will remain the norm ever since the pandemic hit our lives, and the trend seems to carry on. Keeping this in mind, designer Lei Wang has created an ergonomic study desk that grows with the child – fitting perfectly in the set of requirements for different phases of life. The adjustable desk looks inspired by the AT-ST (All-Terrain Scout) Walker, with its walking stance emulated in the desk’s legs.
Lei has christened the ergonomic work table as Venus Study Desk, and the furniture piece is good enough for early school days and up to University level studies. The free height adjustment system and a unique desk tilting mechanism allow the desk to grow with your child. The cool-looking desk employs turbo worm technology to actuate the free height adjustment function of the table. So, the user can precisely adjust the height according to the requirement without even moving a muscle. Similarly, the tabletop tilt can be changed just with a light pull – courtesy of the gas spring adjustment.
Under the tabletop, there is a drawer to keep all the essentials in an organized fashion. The back of the tabletop sports a multifunctional desktop box that holds a wireless charging module to keep the devices juiced. The intuitive design of the Venus desk has ample space to hide all the cables from plain sight, which is a tremendous advantage for ones with a multi-monitor setup and other peripherals. In totality, the desk is ideal for kids, students, and even professionals who fancy customizable aesthetics – definitely, an excellent investment to up your productivity for years to come.
Designer: Lei Wang

Be a Spider Using This Fiber Hookchain We all know Spider-Man through his abilities to shoot and swing from his own webs. He produces them using the man-made web shooters on his wrists. It isn’t a superpower at all – it’s the result of Peter Parker’s scientific prowess.
Countless people have since tried to recreate the fictional character’s web shooters in the real world. Grappling hooks, ropes, actual spider silk – you name it, chances are someone in a Spider-Man costume has swung from it.
But few actually try to understand the science behind Spider-Man’s webbing. That’s what JT of Built IRL tried to do. He discovered that there are a few ways to produce artificial fibers by mixing various liquids together (just like how Peter Parker mixes his web fluid in the comics):

The artificial fiber he tried to create is called rayon, also known as artificial silk. By mixing malachite powder with ammonia, he created a blue mixture that can dissolve cotton wool. He then placed this mixture into a syringe and injected it into some sulfuric acid.
The sulfuric acid promptly turned the syringed mixture from liquid to solid (and changed the color from a cool blue into a clear white). This is rayon – an artificial substitute for silk which, when put through some heavy industrial processes, can become the strongest fiber in the world (even stronger than natural silk).
Sadly, JT didn’t have the industrial equipment to produce such a strong rayon rope. So instead of making his own webbing, he settled on a pre-made ultra-strong fiber as a substitute.
But finding a strong cord was only half the battle. To mimic Spider-Man’s iconic mode of travel, JT needed to create a method of attaching the fiber to surfaces so he could swing from them.
He tried countless designs – electromagnets, suction pads, grappling hooks – many of which were overly complex and cumbersome. Eventually he looked to Velcro for inspiration. Since Velcro uses a number of small plastic hooks and hoops to fasten two surfaces together, JT thought of incorporating the design philosophy into his Spider-Man web.
Enter the hook chain – JT’s answer to the modern Spider-Man fantasy. By affixing a number of steel alloy hooks to one end of the fiber rope, you can latch onto any solid surface on which the rope can be wrapped around.
Early designs of the hook chain included knotted loops, but JT soon figured out that he didn’t need the loops to get a good hook in. Metal pipes, weapons, even human appendages could all be hooked in by the hook chain.
But the real test of that hook chain was seeing if it could support the weight of a person swinging off of it. Using a gym ring on the holding end to stave off friction burn, JT latched the hook chain onto a suspended pipe and did the only reasonable thing any Spider-Man fan would do given the situation – he jumped.
Thanks to science and good design, the hook chain did exactly what it was made to do. JT swung in a wide arc before letting go and landing on the ground below!
It looks simple, but that was the result of good design and engineering. Just like Spider-Man’s webbing, the beauty of the design is how much work it takes to make something simple and easy to use.
There is still room for improvement. Already, JT is thinking of ways the hook chain can be fired in succession and swung from without the use of a cumbersome gym ring. He now plans on working this into a future video, so be sure to check out his YouTube channel, Built IRL, to stay up to date on his web shooter improvements.

How to Casting Wasp Nest in Resin Despite being home to hundreds of dangerous insects, many people’s first thought when they see a wasp nest is to poke a stick at it.
That’s the first thought. Once the wasps have evacuated their home and finished stinging everything in sight, these people would probably look for an act of revenge. Well, we’ll tell you how to do it in an artistic way as this is exactly what Ben from Ben’s Worx had in mind.
With some leftover wasp nest from a previous project, he decided the best way to make use of it was to cast it in resin and to turn it into a gear shift knob:

To make the gear shift knob stand out, Ben added a little something extra on top of the wasp nest: an actual wasp. Don’t worry, the wasp was good and dead, so it didn’t put up a fight as Ben applied a small helping of UV resin to stick it to the nest.
This pre-casting resin proved to be just the adhesive Ben needed, as he would be pouring even more resin on top of it afterward. Once the resin was applied, he used UV light to help it solidify. He applied the same UV resin to the bottom of the wasp nest and stuck it inside a plastic cup so it could maintain an upright position for the main resin casting.
With the wasp nest in position, Ben poured his resin mixture (mixed with some red pigment) inside the plastic cup. After the resin settled, he popped it into his pressure pot to remove any stray air bubbles.
Here’s a first: we actually get to see the inside of the pressure pot as it pressurized the wasp nest cast. With Ben’s patented “potcam”, you can see the air bubbles rising to the top of the resin and dissipating – leaving nothing but a clear, airless cast in the cup.
After the resin was pressurized, Ben took the cast out of the pressure pot and popped it out of the plastic cup.
To prep the resin for the lathe, he glued his casted wasp nest to a wood base. This provided the lathe with something sturdy to latch onto while turning the resin. With the base and resin firmly secure, Ben started chipping away at the resin shell.
At the beginning, the resin cast shared the contour of the plastic cup it used to reside in. But with Ben’s expert chiseling skills, he carved a nice, circular knob that can be used on a number of different gear shifts.
After some wet sanding to smoothen out the edges and some wood polish to shine the base, the wasp gear shift knob is finally done.
You will notice that the knob doesn’t have any holes under it. This is because, unlike his other works, Ben plans to give this out as a gift to a certain lucky individual who would comment on this particular video.
The winner can then modify the knob to fit his or her vehicle, or if they decide to use it for something else, change it entirely. I personally would love to see this thing on a cane, as it would make a great conversation piece.
Whatever the winner decides to do with it, you can’t deny having a wasp nest encased in resin emanates a feeling of danger, satisfaction, and wonder.

Clever Framing and Scaling Make Original “Jurassic Park” Larger Than Life If you’ve seen the newer Jurassic World films and compared them to the original Jurassic Park movie from 1993, you’ll notice a certain lack of wonder. The dinosaurs seem smaller, less intimidating, and more of a backdrop than the centerpiece.
You could chalk this up to nostalgia, but YouTuber Films&Stuff thinks the beauty of the original Jurassic Park stems mostly from Steven Spielberg’s masterful directing.

There are a lot of elements that make the movie look larger than life, but Spielberg focuses on two: scale and framing. With some clever camera work, he conveys the mood and tone of a scene using his animatronic (and CGI) dinosaurs as well as the superb acting of the cast.
From the get-go, Films&Stuff mentions that Jurassic Park is filmed in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio – a more vertical framing compared to Jurassic World’s 2.35:1 ratio. While most action films use the latter to make the most out of their high-movement scenes, this doesn’t translate as well when filming dinosaurs.
Jurassic Park is one of the first movies to bring lifelike dinosaurs to the big screen. To make them look larger and more intimidating, Spielberg makes use of the larger vertical space to fully encapsulate the size of these beasts and fill the screen with their presence.
In the Jurassic World sequels, the dinosaurs seem smaller because of how they’re framed. They’re usually in the background, behind manmade structures or with people who take up just as much of the frame as they do.
There isn’t that sense of scale the original movie had, since the dinosaurs don’t really dwarf their human counterparts. Ironically, they seem to be relegated to animals, while the humans become the main focus of the frame and story. This is strangely counterintuitive, considering the movie is called Jurassic World.
Spielberg knows his audience wants the dinosaurs to be front and center, which is why he has used clever camera tricks and scenarios to convey one of two moods every single time these prehistoric animals appear: awe and horror.
There’s a noticeable difference when awe and horror are conveyed. To show a sense of wonder, Spielberg uses wide shots, large-scale backgrounds, and keeps the physical distance between humans and dinosaurs to a minimum. You can see a lot of these shots at the beginning of the film, where the dinosaurs make their first appearance and everyone is captivated by them.
Horror is the other side of this dinosaur-themed coin. During moments of increased tension, Spielberg puts the camera up close to the actors and the danger they are facing. The scenes are set in claustrophobic yet familiar locations like a jeep or a computer room. To make the dinosaurs look more intimidating, the scenes are almost exclusively shot from the humans’ point of view. This creates a feeling that you’re right there with the people in the park, as they struggle to survive this crazy outbreak.
These are just two of many tricks Spielberg had up his sleeve when he made the 1993 classic film. There’s the CGI effects and animatronics which, while not as impressive by today’s standards, provide believable dinosaur models for viewers to gape at. There’s also the script, which many think to be better than the sequels that came after it. But it’s this use of scale and framing to convey emotion which those same sequels have been trying to recapture when creating dinosaurs.
The entire video is definitely worth a watch if you’re a fan of Jurassic Park, as you’ll get a deeper look inside the camerawork which went into making the film. Films&Stuff has more video essays on a ton of blockbuster films, so you can check those out if you’re a cinephile.

You Can Draw in Perspective Inside SOLIDWORKS? Disclaimer: This exercise was purely for experimental and exploratory purposes. Although I hoped that I would gain insights on how to better sketch in perspective by transferring the 2 point cube sketch into SOLIDWORKS, the success of the exercise wasn’t tied to the outcome. Sometimes, it’s fun to try things and follow one’s instinct and see where it may lead.
Article: You can become a better mechanical design engineer by improving your capability to visually think and sketch in perspective. In essence, sketching is a cycle of iteration that allows you to flush out your ideas on paper. The process goes as follows: 1)You transfer your thoughts from your head to the paper. 2)You analyze what you see on the paper and new ideas are generated. 3)You edit/refine what you had previously put on the paper.
Photo credit: Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas 3rd Edition by Kurt Hanks and Larry Belliston.
My goal is to get to the point where I can rather quickly do exploded views of assemblies, like the Leonardo Da Vinci illustration below.
Currently, I’m learning to draw objects inside cubes that are in perspective.
As I’ve spent weeks drawing straight lines without rulers, practicing ellipses, and drawing cubes in 1 point, 2 point, and 3 point perspective, I began to wonder if the tool I use every day for mechanical design, SOLIDWORKS, could support this perspective sketching. Although there is a button on SOLIDWORKS to view objects in perspective, that’s not what I wanted.
I literally wanted to sketch objects in perspective inside the software. After surfing the web, it was evident no one had done this before. This is totally understandable since the tool isn’t made for those purposes. But as entrepreneurs know, sometimes a new business idea is born by utilizing tools to solve problems they weren’t intended to be used for.
Also, thinking in perspective can be challenging. One has to train the eye to see vanishing points and estimate when objects are incorrectly drawn. It occurred to me that by sketching in perspective inside SOLIDWORKS, I may learn something. Perhaps something would click in my mind and sketching in perspective would suddenly become easier after viewing sketches in 3D inside SOLIDWORKS.
I set out to replicate the 2pt point perspective drawing below in SOLIDWORKS. You can watch me navigate through this process by watching HERE.
Step 1: Paste photo to use it as a reference
Step 2: Create vanishing points
Step 3: Use 3D sketching to make vertices coincident with vanishing points.
Step 4: Generated new planes and axes to connect the vertices in the back of the cube.
Step 5: Create each face using surfaces and knit them together to create a solid.
The final outcome was the following:
I did walk away from this exercise with a rather philosophical conclusion that I didn’t expect. I’ve never had a chance to look at my perspective from someone else’s point of view (side view). This cube seemed like freezing our perspective of how we see the world around us and looking at it from someone else’s point of view.
I hope that you enjoyed this article. Feel free to expand upon what I tried and share your results with me. I have a hunch that there’s a possibility that someone may expand upon this new way of utilizing SOLIDWORKS.

Does Twisting a Ratchet Strap Decrease Its Load Capacity? It’s one of those myths only people who transport heavy loads will know about. According to rumor, if you twist a ratchet strap by even a little, you are effectively reducing its load capacity by 50%.
While it is true that adding a twist to a taut ratchet strap reduces the slack and tension, there haven’t been some tests regarding the load capacity. That’s exactly why Jason from Fireball Tool decided to test out a bunch of different tying styles on multiple ratchet straps to see if there is any truth to the myth:

To simulate a moving vehicle under stress, Jason welded an air jack onto a large, rectangular piece of plate steel. With two hinges on either side of the plate and a round metal plate on the tip of the jack, Jason pushed the straps to their breaking point.
Starting with an unknotted and untwisted strap as the control test, he used a digital force gauge to determine that the normal amount of force a ratchet strap can provide with just the handle is 655 kg (or 1,461 lbs). But that’s just with a taut ratchet strap. To get the exact amount of force the strap can handle before breaking, they have to… well, break it.
And that’s just what Jason did. With enough force from the air jack, the ratchet strap snapped at the spool – heating up the strap and sending fibers airborne. Jason took a look at the footage and discovered the breaking point of an untwisted, unknotted 2-inch ratchet strap was 4,279 kg of force (9,433 lbs). Not bad, considering the working limit for the ratchet straps were advertised to be 1,512 kg (3,333 lbs).
With the control points measured, Jason started adding different numbers of twists to the succeeding ratchet straps. A single twist in the strap yielded a snap at 4,375 kg (9,645lbs) – a little higher than an untwisted ratchet strap.
Increasing the number of twists past one seemed to inversely affect the load capacity, however. Four twists led to the strap snapping at 4,205 kg (9,270 lbs), while 10 twists resulted in an even earlier breakage at 3492 kg (7,698 lbs). It isn’t quite as drastic as a 50% load capacity decrease, so the rumors about twists dramatically reducing load capacity seem to be greatly exaggerated.
Not to be discouraged by the results, Jason tried adding a knot to the next strap. This time, the strap broke at the knot instead of the spool. And wouldn’t you know it, it snapped at 1630 kg (3,593 lbs) – 50% lower than the load capacity of the untwisted, unknotted control test.
So maybe the rumors were true – but only for the knotted strap!
Lastly, Jason tried to see if a wet ratchet strap would affect its load capacity. He submerged the final strap in water for a while before subjecting it to the air jack and letting it fly. A snap at 4013 kg (8,847 lbs) of force is a slight reduction from the load capacity of the dry strap, but it isn’t that bad when compared to the ones with twists and knots.
Moral of the story: Do not, under any circumstances, put a knot in your ratchet straps. A couple of twists to reduce the vibrations are alright, but overdoing it could result in the strap snapping and your cargo flying overboard.

Wooden Uzi as Answer to Your Jenga Problems Ah, Jenga – the game you play when you’re tired of board games. Instead of requiring any real knowledge of a game’s rules, Jenga relies more on depth perception, an innate knowledge of physics, and very, very careful hands.
Sadly, not all of us have the dexterity to play such a game. When so much rides on taking and placing a single block, it’s only natural for anxiety to kick in. So how do you get around having butterfingers?
Why, make yourself a wooden Uzi, of course!

Now to be fair, the Uzi made by YouTube creator The Q doesn’t fire real bullets. In fact, it doesn’t fire anything at all.
What it does is project a peg out of the barrel. When fired, the force from the peg pushes a single block out from the Jenga tower, allowing you to retrieve and place it on top by hand.
The design is mostly inspired by images of Uzis The Q found through a quick Google search. After researching the anatomy of the Israeli submachine gun, he started working on designing and cutting the different gun parts out of wood.
The gun doesn’t use any nails or hinges to hold it together. Instead, The Q made liberal use of wooden pegs and wood glue to hold his Uzi together. In fact, the only metal part inside the gun is the spring used to activate the trigger mechanism.
The mechanism itself is quite simple. Using two stretched out rubber bands to create tension, the peg is held in place by a wooden piece. When the trigger is pulled, the piece releases the rubber bands and launches the peg forward.
With the mechanism finished, The Q worked on adding extra details to his gun. He used a drill bit and a small circular saw to carve grooves onto the grip and even added some phony screw engravings to make the gun look closer to the real thing.
The completed Uzi works just as intended. The diameter of the peg is just big enough so that a single Jenga block can be launched from the tower without disrupting the others beside it.
You still have to pick up the block you launched and place it on top of the tower, but maybe The Q will come up with another kooky machine in the future which will make that part easier.

Make Your Own Axe Out of Pieces of Rebar The head of a common axe is usually made from a single, solid piece of metal. Not only does this give the tool a more solid cutting surface; it also provides the axe the weight it needs to be swung properly.
This axe by YouTube channel Mr. Inventor may not be the most suitable tool in the shed for chopping chunks of wood, but it definitely gets an award for being an interesting build.
After all, it’s made from rebar.

Most of the outline of this axe was made by bending a single piece of steel rod. With the help of a table vise grip and a metal pipe to shape the segments, it wasn’t hard at all to create the axe’s handle.
After two parallel pieces of rebar were properly placed, they were welded together into a fine handle.
Seeing as this was meant to be a decorative axe rather than an everyday working tool, some extra flair was given to the head. The butt (the dull back portion of the axe) was made with two curves meeting to provide a pointed tip. The blade, on the other hand, is a little more traditional but has a much bigger curve than a normal axe.
After the welding process, the body was formed. But to give the blade some extra weight and power behind its swings, the second piece of rebar was cut and welded into the front of the axe. The two pieces of rebar were then angle grinded together to create a single, solid blade.
The rest of the axe was grinded and sanded down as well, creating a polished yet industrial feel to it (it is made from rebar, after all). Lastly, a coil of rope was wrapped around the handle to give the user a solid grip.
Despite its delicate beauty, the thing manages to function as a cutting tool. Small and thin blocks of wood don’t stand a chance against it, but you might find it difficult to cut thicker and stronger materials with this decorative axe.

YouTuber Clicker Uses Stop Motion Paintings To Create Van Gogh’s Dinner Scene When you hear the words “stop motion”, your mind usually gravitates towards action figures, clay, or LEGO blocks. By placing these objects in different positions in each frame, you can create moving pictures that animate just like a movie.
Inspired by the fully painted film Loving Vincent, YouTube channel Clicker wanted to pay homage to painter Vincent van Gogh in the best way possible: stop motion. Only instead of using toys to create their video, they decided to use handmade paintings:

It sounds easy on paper, but painting in stop motion requires a lot of skill. You have to make sure each stroke is exactly where you want it to be; considering the long pauses between strokes to allow the paint to dry faster.
Here, you can see 2D paintings by way of the title sequence and the animated The Starry Night in the picture frame. These scenes were recreated using traditional stop motion techniques: paint a few strokes, take a photo, paint a few more strokes, take a couple more photos, and so on.
What’s interesting here is that besides the technique mentioned, they used other methods to create the entirety of the video.
By blending painted 3D objects with the scenes, they created a world that seemed to conform to van Gogh’s art style.
A matchstick, a slice of bread, the fork – van Gogh’s dinner table filled with objects which looked like they popped out from his own paintings. It was actually hard for me to discern what was part of the background and what was real. (Here’s a helpful hint: look for the shadows!)
Even the wine was recreated in stop motion by using painted paper “flowing” out of the bottle and into the wine glass. When the wine hit the bottom, the inside of the glass showed an interesting illusion of the liquid through the use of paints with the right hues.
Combined with sound effects, the stop motion paintings delivered a very believable and immersive short video of van Gogh enjoying his dinner after a long day’s work. It took 1,522 still images to create this 1 minute and 40-second film, but the effort was definitely worth it!

Interview: Dr. Logan Graves on How the Huge DKIST Telescope Mirror Was Fabricated In this interview with Dr. Logan Rodriguez Graves, we learn about how gigundous, expensive mirrors in observatory telescopes are made, medical imaging, and other things you can do with a degree in optical science.
Medical Imaging for Diagnosing Colon Cancer
As an undergrad, Graves worked in a University of Arizona group that researched new methods for imaging colon cancer. The “traditional” way to image your innards typically includes drinking a nauseating liquid sludge that makes things fluoresce. Don’t ask me why I intimately know what it’s like to drink that garbage.
The researchers Graves worked with came up with new ways to poke around in there without that beverage. For one thing, they found that lesions and cancerous tissue in the colon can be highlighted by hitting them with certain wavelengths of light — no cocktail needed.
As seen on Omniscient Imaging Inc.’s website.
Graves told us about other GI-imaging work a University of Arizona team did which included Drs. Bhaskar Banerjee and “Ron” Liang. They developed an optical device that could look both forwards and backward in a colon at the same time. That way, no cancerous masses can hide! The tech was spun off into a company called Omniscient Imaging, Inc.
Graduate-Level Optics Wizardry
Logan Graves’ doctoral dissertation involved metrology methods used in the fabrication and verification of huge mirrors. Specifically, Graves helped measure the mirror surface that would eventually be installed in the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, or “DKIST” for short.
This telescope is set up in Maui, Hawaii, and is currently the largest solar telescope in the world. While the primary mirror inside it now enjoys a tropical vacation, it was born in a lab in Arizona.
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii. Photo credit: NSO/AURA/NSF, https://dkist.nso.edu/.
The 4.26-meter telescope is about 14 feet in American speak, or the size of a large, outdoor trampoline.
Because this thing images the sun, some extra engineering challenges were present. As you may know, the sun is very bright. It is also very hot. So, to make sure the telescope didn’t warp, melt or fry like an ant beneath a kid’s magnifying glass on a sunny day, a new material needed to be invented.
The substrate for the mirror needed to be created from something that wouldn’t expand a lot when it got hit by sunlight. That’s because, even if it didn’t catch fire, expanding too much could still distort the image the DKIST captured. That’s why SCHOTT stepped in and came up with a novel glass-ceramic material called ZERODUR®. Its extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion is what makes ZERODUR® special.
Why Metrology on a Multi-million Dollar Telescope Mirror Is So Difficult
When Logan Graves came aboard the DKIST build, the design for the telescope and the fancy new material was already set, but the fabrication methods needed some love. After all, this thing being built was about to become the largest telescope in the world of its kind!
To grind down the mirror to its final, polished shape, different fabrication stages were required. All these stages required measurement. As the material is scraped away, there needs to be a way to check how much still needs to be taken off and how much has been removed already.
Shiny, polished DKIST mirror in the lab. Photo credit: Logan R. Graves.
That all seems simple enough, but because the end application is a multi-million dollar telescope, metrology requirements get a bit trickier. For one thing, many millions of dollars is a lot of money! So, you better not make any mistakes. Not one mistake. Not one. You need the one you make to work, unlike with high-volume manufacturing where you expect a percentage of failure.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, as with all precision optics, you can’t touch it. You can’t breathe on it let alone drag a mechanical profilometer across its surface. So, you need to make highly precise, foolproof measurements without touching the mirror.
Pros and Cons of Interferometry
The “gold standard” way of measuring a mirror surface like this is with interferometry, which is a precision, non-contact measurement method. On the downside, it’s also extremely expensive and requires you to make a perfect physical reference shape. Then, you’d measure the part you’re creating and the reference shape and the difference between the measurements is the error.
With the concave DKIST mirror, this process was especially difficult. There was an enormous size for one, but also the shape was off-axis and parabolic. If the cutout shape were spherical instead, then you could buff it out with a spinning sphere. However, because it’s wonky, making and testing the thing is a lot more complex.
Another drawback of interferometry is that in measuring large surfaces, you typically can’t measure the entire surface at the same time. Instead, you may need to take several measurements and stitch them together. Those overlap areas are prone to errors, and again, with multi-million dollar widgets, error is bad.
Yet another con of using interferometry exclusively is that it only works when the shape you’re measuring is pretty close to the reference shape. So, if you’re at those rough, beginning stages of grinding down the mirror, interferometry will have limited utility.
What is Deflectometry?
In contrast to interferometry, deflectometry can be used more easily in the beginning stages of cutting out the mirror. It’s also cheaper as it doesn’t require a reference shape to be built.
Human crawling around on the super-expensive DKIST mirror to set it up for measurement. Photo credit: Logan R. Graves.
Instead, the reference used is a source, maybe a digital display, with a test pattern of known dimensions. If you shine that source on the mirror and image the reflection, then you can tell what the mirror looks like by how the image got distorted.
For example, think of a warped funhouse mirror. If you see an image of yourself that is 3 feet tall with a face larger than your rear, but you know that you are 5’10” with a normal-sized noggin, you can tell how that reflective surface is bent out of shape. Once you get past the initial shock, you can see the distorted image not as a mangled human but as ripples in the aluminum.
If you want to understand deflectometry more deeply and are a fan of The Matrix, check out Graves’ doctoral dissertation defense. He explains deflectometry with the image of the red and blue pills reflected in Morpheus’s sunglasses.
The Grinding Phase
An early stage of the mirror fabrication process is the “grinding stage”. This is where the telescope gnomes would take the mirror surface from looking like matte paint on a pimped ride to something where you can start to see a reflection. Compared with the final polishing step, this part of the process is where loads of material would be cut away.
The grinding process uses a robotic arm to press and spin a slurry that has polishing grit mixed in. It looks way too messy to be able to do precise grinding with, and yet, with the help of IR deflectometry, they were able to measure and monitor this rough surface. Interferometry and visible deflectometry were also used to corroborate the IR deflectometry measurements.
Primary mirror being fabricated at the University of Arizona. Photo credit: NSO/AURA/NSF. https://dkist.nso.edu/
By using IR deflectometry in this part of the process, the team was able to save a lot of fabrication time.
It was easier to see where they could take large chunks out of the material that wasn’t close to the end surface. That, in turn, allowed the DKIST mirror to be fabricated in a little over a year, which Logan tells us, by observatory optics standards, is astonishingly rapid.
“Super Smooth Mirror”
A “Super Smooth Mirror” is actually a category of mirror. That’s something you know now. Once the highest level of polish was finished, the DKIST mirror had about 19 nm of roughness across the entire surface. If you look at the deviation across a smaller surface area of about 2x3mm, it’s even lower at less than 0.7nm, which equals “super smooth”.
Final measurement results of the finished DKIST primary mirror as shared by Graves during his dissertation defense.
But what does a surface roughness of 19nm really mean? During Graves’ dissertation defense, he explained this 19nm deviation is comparable to a topographical deviation between 2 places across town being half the width of a human hair. So, any hill or pothole between you and some point several miles away would need to be no higher or lower than half of a human hair.
Ok, props, doc!
To check the mirror’s surface at the final stage, not only the shape but the surface roughness was important to gauge. Multiple types of deflectometers and interferometers were used to scan the surface as the final check. Then, all those measurements were cross-checked to make sure they were all in agreement.
Graves as a Free-Agent Optical Scientist
Since graduating, Graves has been busy with lots of different projects. With his partner, Dr. Isaac Trumper, he’s done random freelance optical engineering work at their company, Intuitive Optical Design Lab. They’ve consulted on small hardware startup projects all the way to helping develop LIDAR systems from scratch.
An Intuitive Optical Design Lab set-up. Possibly just set up to look really cool and not do anything functional. Photo credit: IODLab.
Over at ELE Optics, he’s also working on PM software to specifically address challenges involved in communicating optical engineering data. When we optical engineers work on a development team, our design work is unintentionally hidden away from other engineers in a black box. That’s just how our software works! I’m excited to see what their R&D team comes up with in the future to make this less of a problem.
Optics Forum and Podcast
There are other goodies over at ELE Optics including an optical science and engineering community forum. This is a great resource to find specialists and ask hard-to-Google technical questions regarding optics and optical software.
You can find the Spotlight Report podcast there, too, which I personally enjoy (and have been on as a guest). This podcast has traditionally included interviews of mostly optics nerds but Logan welcomes all sorts of engineers as scientists as guests.
Want Guidance from Dr. Logan Rodriguez Graves? Book Him on OddEngineer.com!
If you’d like Logan Graves to give you metrology methods guidance for your application, you can directly book an appointment with him on Odd Engineer at this link.
There’s no need to ask him about his availability! Just click the “Schedule Appointment“ button, and book and pay for whatever available time and day works for you. If you need him to sign an NDA for your meeting, you can upload a signed copy when you book. You’ll then receive an email with a Zoom meeting link.
Full Interview with Dr. Logan Graves on the Odd Engineer Podcast
Want to hear the long, unabbreviated version of this interview? Check out Odd Engineer’s podcast for advice and more details on metrology methods and the DKIST project.

This 10kg Giant Ingot Is Made From Copper Wires It takes a LOT of metal to smelt down a solid ingot and sometimes, those metals aren’t always readily available. Gold, for instance, is crazy expensive and you would need to melt a lot of jewelry just to create a single gold nugget.
Copper, on the other hand, is cheap and readily available; provided you know where to look for it. Luckily, one curious guy knows where to get some.
Due to his desperation to create the biggest copper ingot, YouTuber Ingot Joe considered using copper cables as an alternative… lots of copper cables.
Since the copper ingot had to be 99.9% copper, he decided to use a number of copper cables like the ones used to connect old-timey telephone lines. After stripping the insulation from the cables, he prepared them into bundles before smelting them.
Let’s Get Smelting
To start the smelting process, he placed the first batch of copper into a crucible and set the gas pressure to 0.1 MPa. This allowed the furnace to reach a temperature hot enough to melt the copper.
In this process, you would start to see the flames inside of the furnace change from their usual orange to bright green. That means that the copper is starting to break down and combine with the gas inside.
More Bundles of Wire
After 15 minutes, Ingot Joe popped the furnace open and added another batch of copper to the already melted mixture inside. He also started mixing the melted copper with a metal tool to remove any solid pieces and ensure they didn’t coagulate.
He repeated this adding and mixing process a couple more times until all the copper bouquets melted down. Once all the copper had been liquefied, he turned the furnace off and prepared to cast his ingot.
Casting Liquid Copper
You have to be reaaaaaally careful when pouring hot liquid metal, so Ingot Joe used his tongs to pick up his crucible and pour its contents into a mold. Unfortunately, the melted copper was a tad too heavy for one man to lift, and he ended up spilling some of the contents onto the side of the mold. Thankfully, he had the foresight to place some metal plating around the area surrounding his mold, preventing anything flammable from burning.
After pouring the liquid copper into the mold, he waited a while for it to solidify. Once the copper had cooled into a nice black, Ingot Joe removed it from the mold and placed it on a block of ice to speed up the cooling process.
Finishing the Copper Ingot
The only thing left to do for him was to polish the copper to reveal its natural brownish color. Oh, and to weigh it in, of course!
Upon laying that fat block of copper on the weighing scale, we discovered why it was so hard to cast the liquid metal in the first place. It weighed a little over 10kg! That’s around the same weight as an average car tire!
Of course, the ingot is worth more than just a couple of car parts. He could sell it off but for now, Ingot Joe decides the best place for his new copper ingot is at the back of his work table – along with all his other creations.
Ingot Joe melts a lot of metals on his YouTube channel. Some of the metals he simply turns into ingots while others are crafted into some fine metalworks.

Heat Gun as Portable Cooking Tool After all those stories about heat gun life hacks and crafts, you probably think that there are no more interesting things left to talk about it. But – no – it turns out it can be used to cook food, as well!
While not that efficient when it comes to time and energy consumption, YouTuber Mr. Hacker showed you can definitely use the heat gun as a replacement for your stove, oven, or toaster.
Instead of harming the environment with a gas stove, you can heat up your food using your heat gun. It will definitely take longer (and I mean MUCH longer), but you’ll be able to count yourself amongst the few who can say they’ve cooked food with a hardware device.
Eggs, hotdogs, leftover pizza in the fridge – there seems to be no food that can’t be heated with some time and a good heat gun. You can even fry raw meat patties by heating up your pan. And the best part? You can cook without using any oil.
Boiling is another cooking process you can achieve with the heat gun. Simply pour some water in a glass or heat-resistant container (something which won’t easily melt or catch fire) and heat it up with your heat gun. You’ll know the water is ready when bubbles start to appear angrily on top; meaning this is the perfect time to cook a couple of eggs or add some broth cubes to make a nice soup.
And who can forget the old outdoor pastime of roasting marshmallows? To be honest, one of my biggest peeves with roasting these sugary cubes of fluff is when they get burnt.
But with a heat gun, you have full control of the temperature around your marshmallows. You can melt them into a gooey paste, warm them up, or (if you’re an absolute monster) burn them into a char. No matter your preference, this is one instance where the application of the heat gun is better than the conventional method of cooking something.
If you have the time to kill and don’t mind getting carpal tunnel syndrome, cooking with a heat gun is definitely a viable option when it comes to cooking all sorts of foods.

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Mixed Media Artwork that Gives Strong Surf Vibes Annie Seaton ne se considère pas comme une photographe, mais comme une peintre qui utilise la photographie. Née à Toronto, au Canada, elle est basée à Sherman Oaks, en Californie. Ses œuvres ont été exposées nationalement et internationalement. « À travers mon art, j’essaie de pousser et de jouer avec la photographie au-delà de ses limites traditionnelles. J’oriente mon objectif vers les surfeurs et le paysage qui les entoure comme sujet, et j’essaie de transmettre des moments profonds et significatifs de joie proche les uns des autres, en peignant de manière expressive dans mon propre langage ‘crémeux’ et rêveur de couleurs« , ...

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Awesome Fingertip Paintings « Je m’appelle Iris Scott, et j’ai l’intention de continuer à peindre au doigt pendant les 60 prochaines années, jusqu’à ce que je sois complètement aveugle ou incapable de déplacer ma main sur une toile « . La lecture de cette phrase, que l’artiste utilise pour parler d’elle-même et de sa relation avec son art, suffit à comprendre l’ampleur de la passion qui se cache derrière cet acte pictural. Iris Scott a troqué ses pinceaux pour utiliser ses propres doigts en 2009, et continue de nous offrir des œuvres intéressantes. Ses peintures sont animées par la passion qui nourrit son âme, et ...

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Beautiful and Enigmatic Pictures from the Middle East Photographe et directeur artistique basé entre la Nouvelle-Zélande et la France, Jacob Howard a capturé la beauté du Moyen-Orient à travers une série de photos intitulée « The Land Between the Seas ».
Photographié entre l’Egypte et la Jordanie, le projet s’articule autour du voyage et d’une curiosité pour l’inconnu afin de capturer l’éphémère et de révéler le caché. Ces images élégantes, ces couleurs chaudes et des compositions minimalistes nous plongent dans une culture qui semble aussi puissante que mystérieuse.
« Je suis influencé par le monde naturel et culturel, les structures énigmatiques, les rencontres inattendues et les moments de changement » explique le ...

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Amazing and Unique Illustrations Liam Cobb est un illustrateur et dessinateur de BD indépendant basé à Reykjavic, en Islande, et à Londres, au Royaume-Uni, dont les œuvres peuvent être vues sur les pages de clients ou dans des médias tels que WeTransfer ou le New York Times, entre autres. Ses œuvres colorées et immersives présentent souvent une atmosphère onirique et surréaliste où sa technique rencontre son inspiration. L’observation de ses illustrations et de son univers artistique unique donne envie d’y entrer.
Pour découvrir plus de ses œuvres, rendez-vous sur son site internet, son shop, son compte Instagram, ou son blog.

Posté le: La semaine dernière
Life-Sized Beaded Animals Basé à Montpellier, Stephan Kouchian est un artiste plasticien français qui travaille autour de différentes thématiques. Sa dernière série, nommée « La Traversé », est composée de sculptures perlées tissées à partir de perles de bois. Pour ce faire, 7000 d’entre elles ont été utilisées et peintes à la main. Les gestes utilisés ont été empruntés à l’artisanat d’art. Ils sont censés représenter le geste des humains sur les animaux, coincés dans leur propre fable et représentation, ce qui explique l’éclairage dramatique et accentué sur ces derniers. On peut alors découvrir un paon, une cigogne, un singe, une mouche, deux chiens, un ...

Posté le: La semaine dernière
Touching and Deep Photo Collages Basé à Montpellier, dans le sud de la France, Quentin DMR est un photographe plasticien. Après de multiples voyages lui ayant permis de découvrir de nouvelles personnes et cultures, notamment en Nouvelle-Zélande et en Inde, l’artiste s’est construit et a développé encore plus sa créativité. » Une fois rentré en France, je me suis senti prêt à construire mon propre projet artistique. « , explique-t-il. Dans son art, Quentin, réalise des collages photos qui interpellent. » Chaque projet que je mets en place raconte une histoire différente. Il est rattaché à un moment, un lieu et à ses habitants. C’est eux ...

Posté le: La semaine dernière

Beautiful Paintings Adorned With Swarovski Crystals Hannah Lupton Reinhard est une artiste basée à Los Angeles. Ses peintures sont le reflet de ses expériences en tant que femme juive, tant sur le plan spirituel que social. Cependant, elle s’intéresse à la création d’un espace universel, où les choses auxquelles elle pense et qu’elle essaie de dépeindre sont implicites et enfouies sous la couleur et l’éclat. Le but : permettre aux spectateurs d’en tirer leur propre signification. Dans certaines de ses peintures, elle utilise des cristaux Swarovski, ce qui donne un aspect très spécial et reconnaissable à ses pièces. Un processus qu’Hannah a commencé pendant sa dernière année à la RISD. « Lorsque j’ai déménagé à Los Angeles, j’ai trouvé un studio dans le quartier de la mode, et je me promenais dans les magasins de tissus, de garnitures et de perles en gros, car les couleurs et les motifs étaient tellement inspirants. J’ai trouvé un grossiste en cristaux qui vendait les plus beaux petits cristaux et je suis devenue accro à l’effet presque pointilliste que je pouvais créer en plaçant chaque cristal de façon monotone sur le tableau. Maintenant, je suis amie avec la dame qui tient la boutique« , explique-t-elle.
Dans son travail, elle a toujours cherché à trouver des moyens de rendre la peinture à la fois drôle et sérieuse, chose qui l’a initialement attirée vers l’incorporation de cristaux. « Il y a quelque chose de presque idiot à passer des semaines sur une peinture et à la défigurer avec des strass, comme si j’étais une fillette de 10 ans qui vient de faire une virée shopping chez Michael’s« , ajoute-t-elle. Pour l’artiste, cela représente cette féminité enfantine et les fantasmes d’être une princesse, tout en remettant en question le sérieux de la peinture. « La lumière est un thème majeur dans mon travail, et les cristaux interagissent avec la lumière (lumière du soleil, lumière fluorescente, manque de lumière, etc.), donnant au tableau une présence physique qui ne peut être comprise qu’en se déplaçant autour dans l’espace« , précise-t-elle.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site Instagram

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Ganni's Nicolaj en Ditte Reffstrups huis Ganni's Nicolaj en Ditte Reffstrups huis

Photo Gallery | Emelisse Nature Resort Photo Gallery | Emelisse Nature Resort

Photo by WU Qingshan. Photo by WU Qingshan.

Photo by Barbara Corsico. Photo by Barbara Corsico.

Original Embroidered Art Rosie Wright possède un petit studio dans le Devon, où elle conçoit et réalise toutes ses oeuvres. Elle y associe son amour de la couleur, des motifs, de la texture et de la nature en utilisant des méthodes de broderie traditionnelles, auxquelles elle ajoute une touche de modernité. « Je considère chaque pièce de broderie comme une œuvre d’art et aucune pièce n’est identique. Je suis une pie lorsqu’il s’agit de perles, et je suis toujours à la recherche de composants complexes de différentes formes et couleurs pour créer quelque chose d’unique« , explique-t-elle.
Le talent de Rosie l’a amenée à travailler dans des ateliers de couture, de chapellerie et de mariage, où elle a confectionné des chapeaux pour des membres de la famille royale, dont SAR la duchesse de Cambridge, et des broderies pour des célébrités telles que Florence Welsh.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site internet ou son compte Instagram.

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Beautiful Paper Work L’art du « papier coupé » offre des pièces délicates où la subtilité des gestes est requise lors de la création. Et Alice Lindstorm est l’une de ces artistes qui savent faire des merveilles avec leurs doigts. Cette dernière réalise également des collages de papiers. Pour ce faire, elle peint et prépare d’abord le papier en question, avant de le découper et de l’assembler dans des œuvres texturées et picturales. Son esthétique s’inspire de « diverses influences, dont l’illustration et le design du milieu du siècle dernier, l’art populaire ainsi que les mouvements artistiques modernes« . Ses œuvres sont joyeuses, colorées et son style reconnaissable.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site internet ou son compte instagram.

The Mural at the Bottom of This Swimming Pool Will Get You Excited for Summer The Mural at the Bottom of This Swimming Pool Will Get You Excited for Summer

Parasols et chaises à rayures aux couleurs vives Parasols et chaises à rayures aux couleurs vives

Oreillers et parasols à rayures Cabana aux couleurs vives Oreillers et parasols à rayures Cabana aux couleurs vives

Le loft de Lotta Agaton, perfection d'un certain style scandinave - Turbulences Déco Le loft de Lotta Agaton, perfection d'un certain style scandinave - Turbulences Déco

"Play with scale, especially in small rooms. Perhaps an armless sofa takes up the entire width of the room and you hang wall lamps in lieu of side tables? Or hang a giant mirror that stretches from the top of the sofa to the cornice." "Play with scale, especially in small rooms. Perhaps an armless sofa takes up the entire width of the room and you hang wall lamps in lieu of side tables? Or hang a giant mirror that stretches from the top of the sofa to the cornice."

Beata Heuman Gives This Notting Hill Townhouse Much-Needed Personality Beata Heuman Gives This Notting Hill Townhouse Much-Needed Personality

Surfing Paintings by Jack Soren Jack Soren est un artiste basé et originaire d’Hawaï, où il a passé la majeure partie de sa vie à surfer, à explorer les îles et ses passions. Des expériences et des moments qui ont façonné son esprit, si bien qu’aujourd’hui, il nous offre des peintures intéressantes et magnifiques. L’art lui est venu à un jeune âge, lorsqu’il s’est découvert un intérêt pour le dessin et la peinture, ce qui l’a conduit au graffiti et au street art. Aujourd’hui, Jack travaille à plein temps comme artiste, peignant des fresques murales, exposant dans des galeries et explorant différents supports et débouchés créatifs.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site internet, sa page Facebook ou son compte Instagram.

Mixed Media Artwork that Gives Strong Surf Vibes Annie Seaton ne se considère pas comme une photographe, mais comme une peintre qui utilise la photographie. Née à Toronto, au Canada, elle est basée à Sherman Oaks, en Californie. Ses œuvres ont été exposées nationalement et internationalement. « À travers mon art, j’essaie de pousser et de jouer avec la photographie au-delà de ses limites traditionnelles. J’oriente mon objectif vers les surfeurs et le paysage qui les entoure comme sujet, et j’essaie de transmettre des moments profonds et significatifs de joie proche les uns des autres, en peignant de manière expressive dans mon propre langage ‘crémeux’ et rêveur de couleurs« , explique-t-elle. La technique qu’elle développe est très originale et permet au spectateur de profiter des vraies surf vibes.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site internet ou son compte Instagram.

Awesome Fingertip Paintings « Je m’appelle Iris Scott, et j’ai l’intention de continuer à peindre au doigt pendant les 60 prochaines années, jusqu’à ce que je sois complètement aveugle ou incapable de déplacer ma main sur une toile « . La lecture de cette phrase, que l’artiste utilise pour parler d’elle-même et de sa relation avec son art, suffit à comprendre l’ampleur de la passion qui se cache derrière cet acte pictural. Iris Scott a troqué ses pinceaux pour utiliser ses propres doigts en 2009, et continue de nous offrir des œuvres intéressantes. Ses peintures sont animées par la passion qui nourrit son âme, et les couleurs utilisées sont souvent aussi envoûtantes et oniriques que les sujets choisis.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site internet ou son compte Instagram.

Beautiful and Enigmatic Pictures from the Middle East Photographe et directeur artistique basé entre la Nouvelle-Zélande et la France, Jacob Howard a capturé la beauté du Moyen-Orient à travers une série de photos intitulée « The Land Between the Seas ».
Photographié entre l’Egypte et la Jordanie, le projet s’articule autour du voyage et d’une curiosité pour l’inconnu afin de capturer l’éphémère et de révéler le caché. Ces images élégantes, ces couleurs chaudes et des compositions minimalistes nous plongent dans une culture qui semble aussi puissante que mystérieuse.
« Je suis influencé par le monde naturel et culturel, les structures énigmatiques, les rencontres inattendues et les moments de changement » explique le photographe.

Amazing and Unique Illustrations Liam Cobb est un illustrateur et dessinateur de BD indépendant basé à Reykjavic, en Islande, et à Londres, au Royaume-Uni, dont les œuvres peuvent être vues sur les pages de clients ou dans des médias tels que WeTransfer ou le New York Times, entre autres. Ses œuvres colorées et immersives présentent souvent une atmosphère onirique et surréaliste où sa technique rencontre son inspiration. L’observation de ses illustrations et de son univers artistique unique donne envie d’y entrer.
Pour découvrir plus de ses œuvres, rendez-vous sur son site internet, son shop, son compte Instagram, ou son blog.

Life-Sized Beaded Animals Basé à Montpellier, Stephan Kouchian est un artiste plasticien français qui travaille autour de différentes thématiques. Sa dernière série, nommée « La Traversé », est composée de sculptures perlées tissées à partir de perles de bois. Pour ce faire, 7000 d’entre elles ont été utilisées et peintes à la main. Les gestes utilisés ont été empruntés à l’artisanat d’art. Ils sont censés représenter le geste des humains sur les animaux, coincés dans leur propre fable et représentation, ce qui explique l’éclairage dramatique et accentué sur ces derniers. On peut alors découvrir un paon, une cigogne, un singe, une mouche, deux chiens, un perroquet, un cobra et un flamant rose.
Pour en décovurir plus sur son travail et son univers artistique, rendez-vous sur son site internet, ou son compte instagram.

Touching and Deep Photo Collages Basé à Montpellier, dans le sud de la France, Quentin DMR est un photographe plasticien. Après de multiples voyages lui ayant permis de découvrir de nouvelles personnes et cultures, notamment en Nouvelle-Zélande et en Inde, l’artiste s’est construit et a développé encore plus sa créativité. » Une fois rentré en France, je me suis senti prêt à construire mon propre projet artistique. « , explique-t-il. Dans son art, Quentin, réalise des collages photos qui interpellent. » Chaque projet que je mets en place raconte une histoire différente. Il est rattaché à un moment, un lieu et à ses habitants. C’est eux que je photographie : les étudiants, les commerçants, les retraités, les familles. Ils sont intégrés dès le début et participent à la prise de vue. Nous échangeons beaucoup. C’est ce qui m’a donné envie et fait rêver quand j’étais très jeune, pouvoir participer, alors maintenant que je peux partager mon art, j’en profite ! », nous a-t-il confié.
La passion de Quentin pour la photographie a débuté alors qu’il n’était qu’un enfant. A l’époque, c’est grâce à son père et son approche atypique et amusante de cet art qu’il l’a découvert. « Il y avait toujours un appareil à la maison. C’était donc un objet familier même si cela se limitait à des photos de famille ou de voyage », explique-t-il. Aujourd’hui, l’artiste travaille ses photographies sur papier en grand ou petit format, pour ensuite les coller dans la rue. « Le champ des possibles est super vaste avec quasiment aucune limite de taille« . Son inspiration, il la puise en partie dans l’art vivant. Un univers avec lequel il s’est familiarisé tôt, notamment grâce à ses parents qui faisaient du théâtre. « J’ai aussi été subjugué par la compagnie Royal de Luxe. J’ai eu la chance de voir plusieurs de leurs créations au Havre et j’en garde de nombreux souvenirs « . L’architecte Auguste Perret l’a également inspiré dans la création et l’évolution de son œuvre : » Les lignes répétitives, les mesures identiques, le béton gris qui change de ton avec le soleil « , précise-t-il.
Plus à voir sur son compte Instagram ou sa page Facebook

UX/UI Design

À l’ère de la surveillance numérique, quatre épisodes de La Série Documentaire Il y a plusieurs mois, Antoine Tricot journaliste à Radio France et plus précisément sur France Culture m’a contacté dans le cadre de la préparation d’une série de quatre émissions documentaires sur la surveillance numérique. Évidemment, étant sensible au sujet, il m’a proposé de parler de mon expérience au travers de mon travail d’étude, de recherche et d’écriture via notamment mon livre Hacker Citizen (je prépare un nouveau livre à ce sujet, si ça vous intéresse d’en savoir plus c’est sur https://hacker-citizen.fr). Alors moi qui aime énormément la radio, j’ai accepté !
Antoine, (accompagné de Martin Troadec et Rafik Zenine ...

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Quel design pour un navigateur « low-tech » ? En octobre 2019, pendant un workshop étudiant dans lequel nous cherchions à re-designer le web, j’ai eu l’idée avec Labo.mg de concevoir un navigateur internet « low-tech » (je vous détaille ce que j’entends par-là plus loin dans l’article). Mais n’ayant pas les compétences d’un développeur de logiciels ni la force de frappe d’un Google ou d’un Mozilla, je me suis dit que j’allais vous partager mon idée : sait-on jamais, si quelqu’un est intéressé pour créer ce navigateur avec moi, j’ai toujours l’envie de lancer ce projet !
Vous le savez, dans le design, j’aime aller à l’épure, à ...

Posté le: Le mois dernier
Ville, design et résilience ? Il y a plusieurs mois, les étudiants du Master en management de l’innovation de Grenoble m’ont invité à parler sur leur événement intitulé « Les lundis de l’innovation ». Ce cycle de conférences est consacré à l’innovation par l’intermédiaire des usages, tels que les sciences humaines et sociales et l’objectif est simple : appréhender certains grands enjeux contemporains à partir de travaux de recherche ou d’interventions publiques.
Je me suis donc prêté au jeu. D’ailleurs, au départ, la question préparatoire qui m’avait été posée était « Comment le design contribue à une ville plus résiliente, durable et inclusive ? ». ...

Posté le: Il y a 2 mois
« Voisins Bienveillants » Peut-être que comme moi, vous n’êtes pas toujours rassurés quand vous arrivez dans un quartier ou une ville flanqué d’un panneau jaune criard où il est écrit « Voisins Vigilants ». En plus de cet avertissement, un œil grand ouvert nous précise bien que nous sommes surveillés par les uns et les autres.
Jusque là, je n’avais jamais creusé le sujet mais heureusement, le média StreetPress s’en est occupé pour nous avec cet article très détaillé dans lequel on apprend qu’il s’agit d’une entreprise privée qui implante des panneaux (100€ le panneau), et dont le modèle économique repose donc sur ...

Posté le: Il y a 2 mois
Le catalogue des livres anciens sur le design Chaque semaine, il y a énormément de projets web qui attirent mon attention. Cependant, il y en a très peu qui retiennent réellement mon attention. Tout se ressemble et tout semble parfois vain, pauvre en contenu et surchargé d’effets.
Heureusement, j’ai découvert ce matin le site Archives.design de la designer Valery Marier. Ce site web modeste mais redoutablement pratique nous propose de découvrir, lire, télécharger des dizaines de livres anciens sur le design (graphique, typographique, sur Apple, Emigre, la NASA, etc.).
Le tout est très bien classé, architecturé et chaque ouvrage est hébergé sur l’indispensable Internet Archives que vous connaissez ...

Posté le: Il y a 3 mois

À l’ère de la surveillance numérique, quatre épisodes de La Série Documentaire Il y a plusieurs mois, Antoine Tricot journaliste à Radio France et plus précisément sur France Culture m’a contacté dans le cadre de la préparation d’une série de quatre émissions documentaires sur la surveillance numérique. Évidemment, étant sensible au sujet, il m’a proposé de parler de mon expérience au travers de mon travail d’étude, de recherche et d’écriture via notamment mon livre Hacker Citizen (je prépare un nouveau livre à ce sujet, si ça vous intéresse d’en savoir plus c’est sur https://hacker-citizen.fr). Alors moi qui aime énormément la radio, j’ai accepté !
Antoine, (accompagné de Martin Troadec et Rafik Zenine que je salue!) m’a interviewé dans un studio d’enregistrement de Radio France pour parler de hacking, de design, de surveillance numérique, des manifestations à Hong-Kong, sans oublier du fichage en France… bref autant de sujets qui me passionnent !
À l’ère de la surveillance numérique
Si vous voulez écouter les quatre émissions, vous pouvez chercher « La Série Documentaire » dans l’application podcast de votre smartphone (je suis dans l’épisode 4 😉).
Et sinon, voici le lien vers les épisodes, j’ai écouté le premier, c’est fascinant et effrayant : https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/series/a-lere-de-la-surveillance-numerique
Vous pourrez aussi retrouver entre autre, l’association Exodus Privacy, le président d’Algotransparency, Armand Heslot de la CNIL, Felix Tréguer de la Quadrature, le fondateur de l’ONG Nothing2Hide et bien d’autres.
Encore merci Antoine et bravo pour ce travail de fond !
Je clôture cet article avec une affiche que j’ai récemment créé pour Jaffiche.fr !

Quel design pour un navigateur « low-tech » ? En octobre 2019, pendant un workshop étudiant dans lequel nous cherchions à re-designer le web, j’ai eu l’idée avec Labo.mg de concevoir un navigateur internet « low-tech » (je vous détaille ce que j’entends par-là plus loin dans l’article). Mais n’ayant pas les compétences d’un développeur de logiciels ni la force de frappe d’un Google ou d’un Mozilla, je me suis dit que j’allais vous partager mon idée : sait-on jamais, si quelqu’un est intéressé pour créer ce navigateur avec moi, j’ai toujours l’envie de lancer ce projet !
Vous le savez, dans le design, j’aime aller à l’épure, à la simplicité. Non pas pour une efficacité productiviste mais pour une élégance de la forme, une légèreté cognitive et une légèreté aussi sur mes actions de designer sur le monde. En cela, j’ai un réel plaisir à faire du design numérique lorsque je cherche à aller à la simplicité dans le graphisme, dans le code, dans le design, dans l’ergonomie, dans l’interface, etc.
Au travers de mes nombreuses lectures sur la décroissance, le low-tech, la frugalité (coucou Serge Latouche, Didier Harpagès, Ivan Illich, Philippe Bihouix, j’en oublie…), je me suis mis en tête de repenser mes usages pour qu’ils correspondent le plus à mes besoins : des besoins que j’essaye de minimiser. Pourtant les outils qui me sont proposés sont souvent surdimensionnés, trop puissants, trop performants alors que la plupart du temps, dans le numérique, je cherche à faire des choses simples. Pour moi, l’avenir sera low-tech, la création d’outils web sera low-tech, et repenser mes usages (comme je l’ai fait par exemple, lorsque j’ai compilé mes usages du web et du numérique sur un disque dur) est pour moi un incontournable de ma direction vers la simplicité, ma décroissance personnelle que je bâtis à tâtons petit à petit.
Présentation & contexte
Également appelée capitalocène, l’anthropocène est l’époque dans laquelle de nombreux chercheurs indiquent que l’humanité est une force géologique majeure. De part son activité (industrielle, numérique, des déplacements, etc.), l’humain transforme le monde vivant dans son ensemble et tend à réduire sa biodiversité. Il dirige donc la planète vers une raréfaction des espèces, dont lui-même. Depuis quelques années, des études confirment le rôle du numérique sur ces enjeux et plus précisément lerôle d’Internet et de ses usages comme un élément d’accélération dans cette disparition. Cette destruction est aussi liée à la crise de l’attention (capitalisme attentionnel), à l’aliénation des outils et plateformes (Facebook, Google, Tik-Tok, etc.), à la crise de l’information (fake news, etc.), ainsi qu’aux troubles psychologiques que cela engendre parfois. Pourtant Internet est libérateur, propage l’information, le savoir, les idéaux, crée des révolutions, rassemble, protège, permet de créer, de s’exprimer, de vivre.
Pour cette raison, on entend parler aujourd’hui d’un web low-tech, moins gourmand en ressources énergétiques, en ressources cognitives, en ressources visuelles, etc. Depuis plusieurs années maintenant, je réalise ainsi l’ensemble de mes sites et outils numériques en prenant en compte les enjeux de poids de fichiers, de ram, de débit, de consommation électrique, mais aussi les enjeux cognitifs, de temporalité, etc. et je souhaite aller plus loin avec ce navigateur « low-tech » qui permet d’aller sur Internet en diminuant ces différents impacts.
Comment faire un navigateur low-tech ?
Alors en 2019, quand j’ai imaginé la création de ce navigateur low-tech, j’ai laissé libre cours à mon imagination et je suis parti sur plusieurs grands principes :
retirer tout ce que je n’utilise pas sur ce navigateur (et c’est hyper subjectif)retirer ce qui consomme beaucoup d’énergieretirer ce qui attrape / vole mon tempsretirer ce qui accapare mon attentionajouter la possibilité de se limiterajouter la possibilité d’oublierajouter la possibilité d’avoir moins
Un Firefox Focus sur desktop ?
D’abord, on enlève :
Le menu d’un navigateur classique comme Firefox :
Ce navigateur serait basé sur Chromium, Firefox ou un autre navigateur. Dans un souci de basse technologie, il serait débarrassé de bon nombre de ses fonctionnalités mais aussi augmenté d’un outil de gestion de paramètres que l’on verra plus bas dans cet article.À retirer (basé pour l’exemple sur Firefox) :
l’historique (et si on créait un navigateur amnésique ?)création / connexion au compte du navigateurla « bibliothèque »le gestionnaire et l’enregistrement de mots de passeles pluginsla personnalisationle bouton « ouvrir un fichier »la rubrique « plus »les « nouveautés »l’aideles bookmarksla fonction « pocket »l’historique des téléchargementsla partie « dev web »et les autres outils qui ne seront pas utilisés
Le menu du navigateur après :
Un navigateur : amnésique / limité / décroissant / old school ?
2. Ensuite, on impose des fonctions constantes : (basé pour l’exemple sur firefox) :
(Ce navigateur est volontairement contraint pour des raisons environnementales mais aussi de vie privée et de radicalité dans les usages.)
navigation privée tout le temps activéejamais de cookies (pas sûr, à tester)jamais d’historiquejauge qui mesure la quantité de datas consommées (voir exemple ci-dessous)jauge qui mesure le temps de visionnage vidéos (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.)…la liste est ouverte pour d’autres fonctions constantes.
3. Une jauge pour limiter sa consommation de données
Je souhaiterais installer une petite jauge qui indique le pourcentage de données consommées. Cette barre est constamment présente sur le navigateur. Elle permet, selon un réglage, de savoir combien on a consommé de données (en mo) et combien de données il nous reste à consommer. En effet, l’utilisateur peut choisir si, au lancement du navigateur, il va se restreindre à 50mo, 500mo, 1Go (par exemple)
Qu’est-ce qu’on ajoute ?
4. Un menu latéral pour configurer son mode d’usage
Les 3 modes proposés sont tout simplement des pré-ajustements des paramètres listés dans le menu. Plus le mode est à gauche, plus il est contraint (rien à voir avec la politique 😅) . On peut imaginer que l’utilisateur affiche ce panneau en cliquant sur une icône en haut à droite du navigateur.
Menu latéral
L’utilisateur peut choisir jusqu’à combien de données il a droit. La limite étant 1Go. Il visualise ces données consommées grâce à la barre présente en haut du navigateur. Au delà de cette limite, un message apparaît pour lui indiquer que son quota est épuisé.L’utilisateur peut empêcher les fichiers sons d’être téléchargés.L’utilisateur peut empêcher tous les fichiers sauf HTML & CSS d’êtretéléchargés.L’utilisateur peut forcer le mode « lecture » des pages (exemple avecle plugin « Just Read » qui fonctionne bien)L’utilisateur peut limiter les images téléchargées en fonction de leurpoids (de 0 à 5ko, de 5ko à 100ko, de 100ko à 1mo)L’utilisateur peut limiter sa consommation vidéo à 30 minutes ou moins.L’utilisateur peut limiter son nombre d’onglets.
L’utilisateur peut bien-sûr ne pas jouer le jeu, relancer son navigateur, avoir d’autres navigateurs sur l’ordinateur, etc. Un peu comme moi qui utilise DuckDuckGo en moteur de recherche principal et qui parfois utilise Google pour d’autres recherches. Être libre, ça n’est pas être idiot pour autant.
Aller plus loin ?
Évidemment, les choix que je propose sur ce navigateur sont basés sur des intuitions, des usages, des réflexions aussi. Évidemment, « on ne pourra pas tout faire » avec ce navigateur. C’est l’objectif. Évidemment, tout ceci est perfectible et je pense que je ne suis pas le seul à imaginer un navigateur plus léger dans son logiciel mais aussi dans sa consommation de ressources énergétiques (coucou le Collectif Bam on bosse ensemble ?). Évidemment, pour moi, le low-tech n’est pas uniquement une réponse technique. Cela doit être une réponse pour apaiser notre temps passé à consommer des infos, des pages, des vidéos et des images.
J’avais aussi pensé à :
Bloquer les fonctions type infinite-scroll ou reload automatique des pagesRemplacer les typos externes par des typos localesBloquer les pub, les pop-up / pop-in / demandes d’inscription sur des newsletters / les demandes de géolocalisation, etc.Préserver la vie privée en rendant le navigateur le plus amnésique possibleetc.
Bref, il faut voir cela comme un brouillon, il faut le prendre tel quel, c’est un début d’idée et je sais que même si je ne pourrai peut-être jamais concevoir ce navigateur, j’espère qu’il existera bien un jour. En attendant, n’hésitez pas à partager vos idées d’un navigateur plus léger pour la consommation de données, pour votre vie privée et pour votre cerveau.

Ville, design et résilience ? Il y a plusieurs mois, les étudiants du Master en management de l’innovation de Grenoble m’ont invité à parler sur leur événement intitulé « Les lundis de l’innovation ». Ce cycle de conférences est consacré à l’innovation par l’intermédiaire des usages, tels que les sciences humaines et sociales et l’objectif est simple : appréhender certains grands enjeux contemporains à partir de travaux de recherche ou d’interventions publiques.
Je me suis donc prêté au jeu. D’ailleurs, au départ, la question préparatoire qui m’avait été posée était « Comment le design contribue à une ville plus résiliente, durable et inclusive ? ». Personnellement, je n’y crois pas. Ce serait un peu long à développer ici, mais en mobilisant les différents sujets en philosophie environnementale que je peux lire, j’en ai conclu que la ville contemporaine n’est pas compatible avec la pérennité de la biodiversité et donc une vie soutenable. Le design sera de toute façon impuissant devant cela. Bref, après quelques échanges, les étudiants ont reformulé leur question de la façon suivante : « Le design peut-il contribuer à une ville résiliente, durable et inclusive ? ». Je préférais débattre de ce sujet avec eux.
L’intervention a été captée en ligne, je vous la place donc ci-dessous. J’ai également eu droit à un papier avec ma trombine dans le Dauphiné Libéré, je vous le mets également en dessous, ainsi que les slides de mon intervention !
Ville, design et résilience ?
Au final, dans cet échange, j’ai beaucoup re-précisé les questions pour avoir un ancrage sur les mots et leur polysémie et j’ai essayé d’avoir autant une approche théorique qu’une approche pratique et concrète. Je suis resté aussi dans le territoire qu’est le mien : mon approche singulière du design. Le temps étant très limité, j’ai parfois dû aller un peu vite, mais le propos semble avoir été saisi !
Maman j’suis dans le journal !
En marge de cette intervention, j’ai pu échanger avec Anne-Elisabeth Bozon-Verduraz qui m’a interviewé pour le Dauphiné Libéré. 45 minutes de discussions résumés en quelques signes, un vrai challenge !
→ Les slides créées par les étudiants sont en PDF disponibles en cliquant sur ce lien.
→ si vous vous voulez en savoir plus sur les lundis de l’innovation, c’est par ici !

« Voisins Bienveillants » Peut-être que comme moi, vous n’êtes pas toujours rassurés quand vous arrivez dans un quartier ou une ville flanqué d’un panneau jaune criard où il est écrit « Voisins Vigilants ». En plus de cet avertissement, un œil grand ouvert nous précise bien que nous sommes surveillés par les uns et les autres.
Jusque là, je n’avais jamais creusé le sujet mais heureusement, le média StreetPress s’en est occupé pour nous avec cet article très détaillé dans lequel on apprend qu’il s’agit d’une entreprise privée qui implante des panneaux (100€ le panneau), et dont le modèle économique repose donc sur la vente de panneaux jaunes mais surtout sur deux applications mobiles. Chaque habitant peut donc installer l’appli et envoyer une alerte sur le réseau… Par contre vous devrez payer pour envoyer votre message. Sauf si votre ville est cliente de l’entreprise, (de 800€ à 7000€ par an sans compter les dépassements de forfait si les citoyens dénoncent beaucoup plus que prévu…).
En réaction à cet éclairant article et à ce message de surveillance des citoyens sur lequel je sens un certain malaise, j’ai créé à mon tour des panneaux pour mettre un peu plus de bienveillance, d’accueil, d’humour dans nos villes et nos voisinages :
Les visuels
Si vous voulez télécharger les visuels en PDF : https://geoffreydorne.com/voisins/voisins.pdf

Le catalogue des livres anciens sur le design Chaque semaine, il y a énormément de projets web qui attirent mon attention. Cependant, il y en a très peu qui retiennent réellement mon attention. Tout se ressemble et tout semble parfois vain, pauvre en contenu et surchargé d’effets.
Heureusement, j’ai découvert ce matin le site Archives.design de la designer Valery Marier. Ce site web modeste mais redoutablement pratique nous propose de découvrir, lire, télécharger des dizaines de livres anciens sur le design (graphique, typographique, sur Apple, Emigre, la NASA, etc.).
Le tout est très bien classé, architecturé et chaque ouvrage est hébergé sur l’indispensable Internet Archives que vous connaissez sûrement. Parfait donc pour parfaire votre culture du design !
Bref, voici quelques belles images issues de ces livres que j’ai pu collecter pour vous et je vous laisse découvrir le site par vous-même 🙂
Archives.design
Le site → https://archives.design/

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