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This playful, customizable lamp makes ‘Happiness’ a design feature If there’s ever a secret to great design, it’s to make something that lingers in your memory. Design a product that finds estate in your mind and you’ve unlocked the holy grail of a product’s “emotional value”, making them something you think about, something you get attached to, and eventually feel nostalgic about. Toys have a unique power of doing this, which is why GI Joes, Barbies, LEGO blocks, Tamagotchis, Beanie Babies, and Mr. Potato Head (or Potato Head, henceforth) have so much emotional value, even today. They’re products that are playful, imaginative, and designed in a way that emotionally ...

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This minimal planter + table lamp design is the modern day desk accessory for every millennial home! Living in a confined apartment but you want to capitalize on your longtime dream of growing edibles and plants. Don’t let the lack of outside space pull you back. You can grow the herbs, veggies and greens, well inside the confines of your home. Of course, there are challenges in nurturing an indoor garden. Your plants will need the right amount of sunlight to grow since light triggers photosynthesis that plants turn into energy to grow. But how do you ensure ideal sunlight for growing plants indoors, especially during the winter months for instance? This is where you’ll have to ...

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This adjustable desk with four different forms was constructed for designers to draw easily! Artists spend a lot of time at their desks. It’s where all the magic happens. When they fail to provide what we need them for, it can get…frustrating. Sometimes it has to do with the height of the desk– the legs might be too short, resulting in using your spine to bend over the desktop just to get the final touches of a project done. Or, it could have to do with the angle of the desk– if it were just angled slightly lower, maybe the final draft would have already been completed. Recognizing the multiple issues that arise with ...

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This umbrella-shaped folding chair is the most brilliantly creative furniture design I’ve seen this year! An umbrella-shaped chair. The idea itself sounds absolutely outrageous until you realize how incredibly clever it is. Think about it… would you rather be carrying an umbrella with you wherever you go, or have those godawful wearable chair-legs strapped to your torso like Gabe from Silicon Valley? The answer is obviously the umbrella, given how ubiquitous it is. It’s compact, and more importantly, is socially acceptable. So when designer Yanagisawa Sera was looking for a way to reinvent the folding chair, hiding it inside an umbrella sounded like a perfect idea!
What’s brilliant about the Hide And Seek chair is ...

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The Top 10 sustainable product designs that help you maintain an eco-friendly and green lifestyle! The COVID-19 pandemic brought a whole lot of changes to our world, our lifestyle, and us. People are now consciously veering towards an environment-friendly way of living, adopting sustainability, and proactively engaging in practices that nurture our Mother Earth. In an attempt to support such initiatives, designers are coming up with innovative sustainable designs. So, we’ve curated ten of these designs that we think are the best of the lot! These designs range from a modular habitat system for bees to a device that helps you grown your own meat! These Top Ten product designs have been specially handpicked by ...

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Watch A Classic Sonic Clay Figurine Get Sculpted and Formed From Scratch Only second to Nintendo’s Italian plumber, Sonic the Hedgehog is probably the most recognizable video game character out there. Blue fur, red shoes, and a too-cool-for-school attitude, Sonic looks and acts nothing like his real-life counterpart.
If you don’t believe me, check out this Sonic clay figurine, created from scratch by Kia from kiArt:
Using a method used in a lot of claymation movies, Kia creates a metal wire skeleton which allows him to freely mold the figurine. After taping two wires which serve as the arms and legs, he can fill out the skeleton with clay and sculpt it ...

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Forging An Old Metal Spring Into A Kunai Is Just As Hard As You Think It Is You’ve probably seen a Japanese kunai in a movie or anime before. Initially built as a gardening tool, these forged metal pieces can become deadly in the right hands.
Due to their multi-purpose nature, kunai were made from sturdy yet simple metals. But I’m pretty sure no one in Japan traditionally made kunai from rusty coil springs; probably because there were no cars back in the day.
Using a piece of 1.2-inch thick metal cut from a car coil spring, metalworker and restorer Random Hands creates a traditional Japanese kunai using unconventional methods.
Folding the Metal
The first order of ...

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This graphene hoodie amplifies your body’s heat, making you feel warmer in under 60 seconds Here’s the sheer magic of Graphene. A garment that’s about as thin as a regular fleece hoodie, possesses the ability of a down jacket or a thick comforter. Meet the SpeedWarm, a hoodie made from graphene-infused fabric that uses your own body heat to its advantage. In mere minutes, the SpeedWarm Hoodie will have you feeling fuzzy and toasty without needing to wear multiple layers of clothing or touching the thermostat. Go ahead and cue in the Jesse Pinkman “Yeah Science!” meme…
The SpeedWarm Hoodie is quite literally the future of thermal-wear. The hoodie, which covers you from your head ...

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Bugatti-inspired concepts that establish the brand’s dominance in the Automotive world! When it comes to luxurious, high-performing automobiles, Bugatti has established its dominance since the day it entered the Automotive market. Bugatti cars are high on utility, performance, speed, craftsmanship, and not to mention they even exhibit a level of artistry. Automobile fanatics and designers clammer at the release of a fresh and fierce Bugatti design, and in the anticipation of one, they often find themselves inspired and engaged! These bursts of inspiration lead to concept designs that perfectly capture and sometimes even innovate the soul of Bugatti. We’ve curated a collection of Bugatti-inspired designs, that we feel deserve a spot ...

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This jet-black cabin uses razor-sharp angles to create the ideal 007 getaway! STIPFOLD, an architecture and design studio, develops projects that are meant to ignite your curiosity. Driven by the pursuit of singularity and the advancement of technology, the studio’s aim during the creation process is to construct buildings that leave an emotional mark, even if any given design doesn’t exactly match your style. Born out of a 6-hour long sketch period, Blackbird, STIPFOLD’s latest project does just that.
Blackbird is a getaway cabin that exists as “a place to be by oneself.” The getaway cabin, an angular structure of black mass combined with tinted glass and a jagged, haphazard display of ...

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This Nixie clock and radio with a Hi-Fi speaker is for audiophiles who savor pure vintage! In times when we all are so accustomed to platter-served music on our cloud streaming services like Spotify or Tidal, the good old radio is the nostalgic detour we need to refresh our mind, body, and soul. Combine that with a steampunk flavor of vintage Nixie tubes + brass trims, and you’ve got a beautiful little box ready to take you on a melodic journey.
The Retio brings the antique 90’s essence of eye-catchy Nixie tubes and the golden appeal of radio listening for people who value retro things in their modern form. Handcrafted in San Francisco Bay Area with ...

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Furniture designed with hidden details that put your IKEA furniture to shame: Part 9 I believe the true essence of a home is held in its furniture. Furniture has the power to make or break a home, set the mood and tone of a space, and capture and express the soul of that particular house. A great furniture design not only feels like a piece of art but also touches your heart. Once you settle on to it, or place your favorite book upon it, or simply brush past it, you need to instantly feel “Ah, I’m home!” This collection of beautiful and intricate furniture designs aspire to do exactly that! Designed with extreme ...

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This Knife’s Edge Is Made Using Replaceable Utility Blades By now, a lot of people credit Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. As the saying goes, the best person for the job is a lazy person, because he’ll find the easiest way to do it.
Now I’m not saying the founder of Experimental Fun is lazy, but he does come up with interesting ways to reduce the amount of work he has to do in the future.
Take for example this customized kitchen knife, which is made to hold three utility blades on its cutting edge. By swapping out the cheap blades once they get dull, you never have to sharpen ...

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Watching A Native American Chainsaw Carving Being Made Is Both Relaxing And A Learning Experience We’ve covered wood carvings before here on SolidSmack, but it’s not often we see them made out of a single piece of wood… nor this big.
Vlad Carving is a YouTube channel dedicated to the art of making giant wood carvings. In one of his videos, he carves a giant bust of a Native American, along with two wolf heads to keep it company:
Going into details about the carving defeats the purpose of the entire video, which is to relax and watch as one man creates a masterpiece from scratch. But look closely and you will get to learn ...

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Chill Your Soda In Record Time With A Powerade Bottle And An Electric Drill The best part about having a chilled soda is drinking one after a hard, hot day’s work. The worst part? Waiting for it to get cold.
While you could wait 20 minutes by storing your beverage in a cooler or fridge, Chris Notap has found a much faster way to chill a soda: through an empty Powerade bottle and an electric drill:
The reason Chris uses a Powerade bottle isn’t because of some sponsorship deal (though they really should reach out to him). It’s because the bottle’s unique design allows for sodas to fit exactly the way he wants them ...

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Someone Actually Turned Adam Savage’s Book Into A Working Hammer Back in 2019, MythBusters host, special effects designer, and all-around crazy creator Adam Savage released a book titled Every Tool’s a Hammer. Chronicling his career as a creator, it takes a deep dive into Savage’s creative process and how he approaches crafting… well, I mean anything.
While I’m sure creators will get a kick out of reading the book, Peter Brown thought it would be fun to take the book’s title literally and turn Savage’s biography into an actual hammer:
Using everyone’s favorite hardening material, art resin, Brown slathers the stuff through 310 pages of soft, pliable paper.
I actually ...

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Make Your Own Retractable Wolverine Claws With Popsicle Sticks and Pressurized Syringes Tons of creative X-Men fans have made Wolverine claws that can cut through pretty much anything. Nonetheless, only a few of those folks can brag a pair that actually draws and retracts. Just as a refresher, in addition to Wolverine’s advanced healing factor (his actual mutant power), he has a solid adamantium skeleton complete with three retractable claws on each hand.
Makers worldwide have put their own spin on creating these indestructible claws, but Brian from Brains techKnowlogy is one of the few I’ve seen who has made a retractable version of the same claws on a budget:
Using popsicle ...

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Feel The Nostalgia With This Pokémon Papercraft Diorama It doesn’t matter if you were a kid in the early 2000s: you couldn’t go a day without hearing about Pokémon during those years. What spawned into the now gargantuan media franchise started as a pair of video games for the Nintendo Game Boy. Pokémon Red and Blue that were both released in 1996 have established their special spots not just in video game history, but so as in the childhoods of countless individuals (mine included).
GUMY Art’s creator is yet another individual whose life has been affected by the cute and powerful creatures. His YouTube channel is dedicated to ...

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Check Out This Wood-turned Eyeball, Complete With Matching Eye Socket Holder Woodturning can be used to make tons of useful things but sometimes, you just want to make something that looks extremely cool but serves zero purposes.
Andy Phillip, woodturner and resin aficionado, loves using different combinations of wood and resins to different effects. In one of his recent projects, he mixes a number of resins to create a giant eyeball:
The resin contains a mix of polyurethane and mica powders, which give the resin its unique colors.
The Sclera
Undoubtedly the centerpiece of this project, the eyeball is made out of different layers of colored resin. The largest layer – ...

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The King Of Random Finds Out If Candy Rope Can Hold Your Weight Candy may not have a lot of useful benefits (it causes diabetes, toothache, and high blood pressure just to name a few), but many people still love it. It’s sweet, it makes for a great Valentine’s Day gift, and (shockingly) you can string a bunch of it to hold your weight.
Nate and Cali at The King of Random love candy rope so much that they decided to put its name to the test. Using 12 pounds of the red licorice, they see if a thick rope of sugar can hold the weight of a grown person.
They start by ...

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A DIY Enthusiast Shows An Easy Way To Completely Hide Wooden Screws For some reason, no one ever thought of making surface-colored screws. Think about it: if you could produce screws that would blend well with the color and texture of the surface they would be put in, you would make millions of projects and builds look way cleaner. Most of all, you would also make a killing by selling them on the market.
However, until some smart entrepreneur reads this, we have to contend with the use of those unsightly metal screws or using different, more visually appealing alternatives like welding or gluing.
Korean DIY enthusiast 검은별 공작소 DIY CRAFTS may ...

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This playful, customizable lamp makes ‘Happiness’ a design feature If there’s ever a secret to great design, it’s to make something that lingers in your memory. Design a product that finds estate in your mind and you’ve unlocked the holy grail of a product’s “emotional value”, making them something you think about, something you get attached to, and eventually feel nostalgic about. Toys have a unique power of doing this, which is why GI Joes, Barbies, LEGO blocks, Tamagotchis, Beanie Babies, and Mr. Potato Head (or Potato Head, henceforth) have so much emotional value, even today. They’re products that are playful, imaginative, and designed in a way that emotionally attaches you to them. Therefore they’re products you remember and cherish. Mr. Watt, a desk lamp, hopes to take the same route with its friendly, anthropomorphic design.
Mr. Watt is a desk lamp styled like a little humanoid with large eyes that light up when you pat its head. Along with the curious eyes that shine bright enough to illuminate whatever Mr. Watt looks at, the lamp even comes with a positionable head, which means the little guy can look up, down, and sideways, working quite like an adjustable spotlight of sorts. Available in two sizes, Mr. Watt occupies no more than 5×5 inches of space, making it perfect to use as a tabletop lamp, a bedside lamp, or just a light placed anywhere on a shelf in either the living room or a kid’s bedroom. Once assembled (with a cable routed through the base), Mr. Watt becomes a friendly ally that lights up to help you read/study, or navigate the room. To switch it on, all you need to do is pat it on the head and the lamp’s eyes light up (literally!) — keep your hand on its head for a little longer and you can adjust Mr. Watt’s brightness, going from ambient light to full-blown spotlight bright enough to clearly light up a tabletop!
That playful interaction is just one component of Mr. Watt’s happiness-inducing design. The lamp comes with an entire ecosystem of accessories that help give Mr. Watt character. From hairstyles to different headgear, goggles, and even clothes, Mr. Watt can become everything from a hipster coder, an old granny with horn-rimmed glasses and hair tied in a bun, to even pets! This ability to impose a character on Mr. Watt turns it from a lamp into a toy, or rather a totem that holds value. You could name it (think of Mr. Watt as just a placeholder name), give it a backstory, and allow your child to bond with it as they would bond with a toy. This instantly turns Mr. Watt from just another lamp to a lamp that provides a connection, emotional support, and makes empathy and happiness a design feature!
Designers: Norbert Schlotter & DesignNest
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Mr. Watt – Buddy that Brightens Your Day
Mr.Watt is a playful, customizable, dimmable desk lamp with a rotatable head to point light where it’s needed.
Cat and Dog
Mother and Father
Boy and Girl
Powerful Eyes
Mr. Watt eyes are the light source, made with 2 high performance LED puck lights of 180 lumens. These LEDs are made to last, and designed so that they can be changed easily when needed.
Rotatable Head
Mr.Watt’s head can rotate 360 degree horizontally and 60 degree vertically. So, you can smoothly rotate the head to your preferred position, pointing light where it’s needed. This also allows me to express my emotions. Based on the direction Mr.Watt can look happy, sad, curious, or even shy.
Unique Switch
Tap Mr.Watt’s head to turn on the lights. Tap again to turn the lights off. The capacitive sensor in the head recognizes your touch. That means you only have to touch the head, with no need for twisting or turning. Rest your hand on the head and it will either dim or brighten the lights. And when you turn Mr.Watt off and back on, it will remember your previous light setting.
Customizable
You can change Mr.Watt’s clothes, hairstyle, put on accessories to add a personal touch, reflecting your character or personality.
Anatomy
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This minimal planter + table lamp design is the modern day desk accessory for every millennial home! Living in a confined apartment but you want to capitalize on your longtime dream of growing edibles and plants. Don’t let the lack of outside space pull you back. You can grow the herbs, veggies and greens, well inside the confines of your home. Of course, there are challenges in nurturing an indoor garden. Your plants will need the right amount of sunlight to grow since light triggers photosynthesis that plants turn into energy to grow. But how do you ensure ideal sunlight for growing plants indoors, especially during the winter months for instance? This is where you’ll have to weigh your options and a device like the LUMISO will fit the bill.
We know abundant sunlight is essential to assist the healthy growth of indoor plants. However, the key to successful gardening is to know which type of plant requires how much light to thrive, and what part of the house has that kind of sunlight. Or maybe you can introduce the LUMISO to your home, which comes with grow-lights that offer an exclusive light spectrum giving your plants the right amount of solar and ultraviolet rays they need to thrive.
Thankfully also, the LUMISO is not a mundane planter. It can sit beautifully on the desk and function as a table lamp as well as emitting cool and warm light that replicates the natural solar spectrum. The flower pot and lamp has a button in the base which is used to turn on the grow-light and it comes with replaceable blubs so they can be easily replaced at the end of life. So, if you are now willing to have a garden for your culinary herbs and little plants with additional light on your work desk, the LUMISO is a befitting device to let you do both.
Designer: Gökçe Nafak

This adjustable desk with four different forms was constructed for designers to draw easily! Artists spend a lot of time at their desks. It’s where all the magic happens. When they fail to provide what we need them for, it can get…frustrating. Sometimes it has to do with the height of the desk– the legs might be too short, resulting in using your spine to bend over the desktop just to get the final touches of a project done. Or, it could have to do with the angle of the desk– if it were just angled slightly lower, maybe the final draft would have already been completed. Recognizing the multiple issues that arise with artists, specifically designers, and their desks, Long Chan constructed Lift, a desk that can adjust to meet your needs.
From the right angle, Lift almost appears like a heavy-duty, oversized wooden TV tray table, but looking at it head-on, it’s rectified as the designer’s workstation. While my days spent eating chicken noodle soup on a TV tray table while watching Cartoon Network are over, Lift utilizes a sliding mechanism that echoes the same one as the iconic living room staple from yesteryear. In order to assume different shapes, Lift depends on two sliding wooden pegs on both sides. The sliding wooden pegs on Lift’s front legs lower the desk’s working space to assume the shape of a traditional writing desk, with additional storage space is made available in the process, similar to that of a traditional secretary desk. Then, the other sliding wooden peg, placed along the side of the desktop, adjusts the desktop to form a drawing workstation, which sets the working space of the desk at an angle.
Being a designer himself, Long Chan felt inspired to create Lift for those fussy scenarios where a traditional writing desk just doesn’t cater to all the needs of a designer. Speaking to this, Chan says, “When the designer needs [to work in] digital…mode, he can move the height to 85cm by rotating the axis on both sides. When the designer needs to take a rest or stand, he can adjust to 110cm height. Of course, users can adjust the angle of the table while sitting, so they can draw easily and not be bothered by the problem of incorrect perspective.”
Designer: Long Chan
With deep cabinets like that of a secretary desk, Lift provides ample space for both working and storage.
Lift’s prototype shows the four different positions it can assume.
Lift’s form as a writing desk.
When the leg’s sliding wooden peg is activated, Lift takes the shape of a traditional secretary’s desk.
Or, adjust the angle slightly to read or draw without having to compromise your line of sight.
Lift’s versatility depends on the four wooden pegs that frame it.

This umbrella-shaped folding chair is the most brilliantly creative furniture design I’ve seen this year! An umbrella-shaped chair. The idea itself sounds absolutely outrageous until you realize how incredibly clever it is. Think about it… would you rather be carrying an umbrella with you wherever you go, or have those godawful wearable chair-legs strapped to your torso like Gabe from Silicon Valley? The answer is obviously the umbrella, given how ubiquitous it is. It’s compact, and more importantly, is socially acceptable. So when designer Yanagisawa Sera was looking for a way to reinvent the folding chair, hiding it inside an umbrella sounded like a perfect idea!
What’s brilliant about the Hide And Seek chair is its sheer absurdity… along with the fact that it actually works! Sera went straight from the drawing board to the metal workshop to test his idea out and from the looks of it, the umbrella-shaped chair works – at least on a prototype level! The frame of the umbrella was fabricated from stainless steel rods, and is designed to fold right into the umbrella shape when closed. A stretched fabric mounted on the frame helps distribute the weight when you sit, allowing the chair to actually take the weight of an adult human. It does look a tad fragile if I’m being candid, but that’s something that can easily be fixed by using materials like titanium or even carbon fiber. The best part about the entire product is that it folds right back into the shape of a standard umbrella, which means you can place it in backpacks, handbags, or even carry it to the grocery store or a concert… blending right into the crowd right before you open the Hide And Seek and take a seat on the world’s only umbrella-shaped chair! That should definitely grab a few eyeballs!
In fact, under certain circumstances, you could use the Hide And Seek as an umbrella too! Although considering its framework (which is designed to easily take somewhere around 160 lbs of weight) is much more robust than the kind found on most umbrellas, the Hide And Seek would be much heavier than your average umbrella, making it difficult to carry for longer periods of time. Nevertheless, the level of creativity and ingenuity the Hide And Seek demonstrates is truly marvelous… especially given the fact that the outrageously brilliant idea is even backed by a working prototype! Yanagisawa Sera, I hope you’ve filed your patents on this, because it may easily be the most brilliantly creative product design I’ve seen this year!
Designer: Yanagisawa Sera

The Top 10 sustainable product designs that help you maintain an eco-friendly and green lifestyle! The COVID-19 pandemic brought a whole lot of changes to our world, our lifestyle, and us. People are now consciously veering towards an environment-friendly way of living, adopting sustainability, and proactively engaging in practices that nurture our Mother Earth. In an attempt to support such initiatives, designers are coming up with innovative sustainable designs. So, we’ve curated ten of these designs that we think are the best of the lot! These designs range from a modular habitat system for bees to a device that helps you grown your own meat! These Top Ten product designs have been specially handpicked by us, as each one of them tackles a unique problem, providing inventive solutions, and encouraging us to lead a greener and cleaner life. They make sustainability easily accessible and achievable for us all!
This modular habitat system was designed to save the bees – it is their Good Place neighborhood! Bees contribute to complex, interconnected ecosystems that allow a diverse number of different species to co-exist. However, the majority of the 20,000 species of bees in the world face the threat of extinction. Amelia Henderson-Pitman designed Pollen which a modular system that provides a range of nesting materials to support the native bee populations and mitigate the problem. It can be installed in any location and has also been optimized for small spaces – the modular system can be integrated anywhere from inner-city gardens to exterior building structures. Each nest module contains materials like recycled hardwood, sustainable bamboo, or handmade mud brick. They have a series of holes that vary in diameter to provide nesting spots. The shell of the modules is an injection tube crafted from recycled HDPE and has been designed to be easily assembled as well as mounted without fixtures. The internal modules (molded from recycled PET) are transparent because it offers us a closer look at how the bees are adapting.
A tool used for firing clay in a kiln transforms into a minimalist bird feeder! This ceramic bird feeder doesn’t present a new solution for bird feeders but does present an approach for sustainable product manufacturing that solves a problem faced by many designers: the scrap material used during construction, like rings in clay kilns, that is discarded once the product is finished. Ceramika Design and Studio Kononenko wanted to make use of ceramic rings used when firing clay in kilns. The main element of the bird feeder is formed from ceramic – the frame and body of the bird feeder. Covering just about a quarter of the round frame is a plastic plate that functions to store plenty of food for the wild birds. Extending from the middle of the plastic plate is a wooden peg that works as a perch for birds to enjoy their seeds. “Considering that the reserves of this clay are limited, we thought about extending the life of these elements. We wanted to create a useful thing out of this. This is how a feeder for wild birds appeared,” says the team. The bird feeder is minimalistic its purpose rests not in aesthetic intricacy, but usability and sustainability. Each component of the bird feeder is replaceable on the off-chance that one is damaged so it can provide longevity.
Burfeind designed Sneature which is a sustainable sneaker alternative for the eco-conscious sneakerheads. The shoe is crafted from many waste materials. The yarn made of dog hair (Chiengora) is a biological waste being upcycled – this is innovation. Sneature is biodegradable as well! The design does take into account the functional requirements of a trainer and individual customization by the user. The process uses a 3D knitting technology that allows for customization and on-demand production while using the lowest possible energy consumption method. The membrane is a protein-based 3D knit made from dog hair. It transports the functional properties of flexibility, stiffness, and air circulation with a very second-skin feel, similar to the sock sneaker style we’ve been seeing. These materials have natural properties that provide water absorption and release and anti-static properties.
This device is designed to grow your own meat to reduce greenhouse gas emissions! FAO has proven that over 25% of the world’s land use is used for animal grazing/growing feed. In fact, 60% of global biodiversity loss and 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions are a result of meat farming and consumption. While the more sustainable option will be to switch to a plant-based diet, many are unable to make that change while still wanting to reduce emissions. To solve the inner conflict humans face as well as help the environment in the process, Turner designed Carnerie – a conceptual device that will let you grow your own meat in the future! Cultured meat is the process of growing meat from cells extracted from animals. Many experts believe that cultured meat offers us the opportunity to produce meat with significantly reduced environmental impacts and without slaughtering animals. The technology is being rapidly developed across the world and is beginning to be introduced to some high-end restaurants but there has been discussion about whether one day we may be able to grow our own meat from animal cells in our own kitchens. Carnerie is a ‘grow your own meat’ device for around twenty years in the future. It is controlled by an app, whereby the user is able to order cell capsules from local farms in order to grow a variety of different types of meat.
KAGURA was created by Chaozhi Lin so that environmentally conscious people can curate their very own self-sustaining indoor gardens no matter where they live. KAGURA’s system is comprised of three main working parts: a container for food waste, an elevated light structure, and three soil pots. The food waste container is located on one side of the indoor planter and turns your leftover food scraps into compost for fertilizer. Composting is a method used to decompose organic solid waste and fertilize the soil for gardening. The slim, attractive light fixture is situated directly above KAGURA’s garden pots and provides the mini garden with nourishing light-energy. The indoor, gardening system is completely self-sustaining and conveniently sized in order to fit into any kitchen or living space. The system itself works after food waste is dumped into the container on the left-hand side, fertilizing the soil contained in the trio of modestly sized pots, each of which provides energy for plants to then grow and thrive.
This mushroom helmet will grow on you as it grows. Yes, read this slowly and carefully: this mushroom helmet will grow on you as it grows. “What do you mean?!” you say and I assure you that statement is not wrong, there is an explanation for it. The Grow It Yourself Helmet is a sustainable product made from mycelium which is the vegetative part of a fungus. Mycelium is the thready hyphae that are tightly woven into mass branch-like networks making it a strong sustainable material. The network of filaments are natural binders and they also are self-adhesive to the surface they grow on. The entire process is based on biological elements that help in upcycling waste. The process of making this helmet also gets the kids involved in a meaningful activity that teaches them about sustainability and safety.”We have developed a helmet that can be made out of hay and Mycelium. It is 100% compostable, breathable, and impact resistant. The helmet reduces the use of plastics in a product that will be disposed of in a short time due to the child’s growth rate,” says the team at NOS Design. To further develop this design, NOS partnered with a company called Polybion which developed Fungicel (a patent that uses mycelium). This fungus grows like foam and therefore can provide cushioning at the time of impact.
When you think of furniture, you think of pieces made using the most traditional materials. We are conditioned to associate furniture primarily with wood, plastic, and metal so when we see products made from anything else it leaves us in awe. Vadim Kibardin decided to give an innovative, sustainable twist to it and designed furniture from paper. Why is his furniture a piece of art? Well, he has spent 5,110 hours making it by hand! Every piece of furniture that Kibardin makes is one of a kind, there is no mold and he shapes them all himself. We are now moving towards a sustainable lifestyle but Kibardin has been doing this for over 25 years – he has successfully recycled 2000 pounds of cardboard which is equivalent to saving 17 trees. To put it into perspective, 17 trees absorb 250 pounds of carbon dioxide each year and we need to ramp up the materials we use in design so that they serve a functional purpose while also contributing to slowing down the climate crisis. Using sustainable construction materials like paper and turning it into furniture that is stylish, modern, and eco-conscious is the future of long-lasting interior design.
An academic project gave birth to Coolpaste – the eco-friendly alter ego of our trusty old toothpaste. The aim was to develop a sustainable packaging design for toothpaste in a way that didn’t affect their durability while being transported or stacked on shelves. For the purpose of the project, Colgate toothpaste was used as the object of study. Coolpaste not only got a physical makeover that was better for the environment, but the graphic elements of the product were also refreshed to reflect the goal of the project. The paper box was eliminated after an in-depth point-of-sale study without affecting the integrity of the toothpaste. This made the product lighter, reduced waste, and simplified branding also eliminated the chemical inks making Coolpaste a success in terms of sustainable packaging and ecodesign.
Sometimes we think we are leading sustainably by just using metal straws or paper bags, but if you carefully look at your daily life, you’ll notice there are so many products that use plastic. The best we can do is find alternatives for them and support designers, brands, businesses who are working on making the future a better place to be. One such product is the iron and Indian designer, Saksham Mahajan, who has come up with a sustainable version of it made from bamboo! The designer started the project as a challenge to explore bamboo as a material, “Its sustainability can be exploited to make so many different things”, says Saksham – and we agree! Bamboo is structured, sturdy, easy to grow, and eco-friendly, in fact, it is used to make houses in Asia so why not use it to make household items too? The bamboo iron box was selected as one of the best entries in the Green Concept Award 2019 which furthers the conversation of using this versatile material in more products.
The world, as a whole, has started to care for turtles and has quickly moved on to use eco-friendly straws. The options are metal straws and paper straws. Metal straws are good for homes and for people to carry them to their office but it is an inconvenient option for eateries. So cafes and restaurants have adopted paper straws as they are easily recyclable and don’t require the effort of cleaning. However, the only problem with paper straws is that they get soggy and your drink will taste like wet paper and you might accidentally eat a bit of it – both things don’t leave a good “taste” in your mouth and can deter people from using sustainable straws. Straw Wars – sustainable products vs drinks that taste like paper, who will win? To solve this behavioral and environmental issue a Warsaw-based company has designed a better alternative straw made with dried stems! It solves the biggest problem we face with paper straws, it does not soak the liquid and it does not add any flavor to the drink – it is true. Stem straws work for both hot and cold drinks so we can make a collective effort to reduce the impact of plastic straws on the environment. The USA alone uses 500 million straws daily so you can imagine what the total global usage would be. According to the One Less Straw fund, every year, as a result of swallowing pieces of plastic debris, 100,000 marine animals and about a million seabirds are die. This is why we need to make the switch to sustainable straws, so if you keep losing your metal straw then get a pack of STRAWS which has 50 stem straws and comes in 100% recycled cardboard packaging.

Watch A Classic Sonic Clay Figurine Get Sculpted and Formed From Scratch Only second to Nintendo’s Italian plumber, Sonic the Hedgehog is probably the most recognizable video game character out there. Blue fur, red shoes, and a too-cool-for-school attitude, Sonic looks and acts nothing like his real-life counterpart.
If you don’t believe me, check out this Sonic clay figurine, created from scratch by Kia from kiArt:
Using a method used in a lot of claymation movies, Kia creates a metal wire skeleton which allows him to freely mold the figurine. After taping two wires which serve as the arms and legs, he can fill out the skeleton with clay and sculpt it to his heart’s content.
Creating the original Sonic’s chunky body is easy enough as it’s technically just a big circle. The arms and legs are just as easy, as they are just fleshy cylinders that connect to Sonic’s body.
The figurine starts to take on Sonic’s iconic shape once Kia sets in the two spines on his back. Add in the tail and you’ve got the makings of an anatomically incorrect cartoon mammal.
You can’t make a Sonic figurine without his red shoes, which is what Kia gets to working on next. The socks are made by pressing a piece of clay into a wide cylinder, which is then placed on top of the triangular shoes. Create a couple of small clay squares for the buckles (why do his shoes have buckles?), sculpt in some details, and you have yourself a pair of sneakers!
How Kia makes Sonic’s hands is quite interesting – he takes four long pieces of rolled-up clay and bunches them up together. Then, with a large lump of clay on one side coupled with Sonic’s thumb, he connects them together at the palm.
He repeats the same process for Sonic’s other hand, only this time he forms Sonic’s fingers into a fist. This hand will later be placed near his waist, so the blue blur can rest his gigantic hand on the side of his disproportionately smaller body. Pop on the glove collars and his hands are as good as finished.
The hardest part of Sonic to sculpt is without a doubt his head. Not only does Kia have to sculpt in the various spikes on its back, but he has to add extra clay around Sonic’s one eye (where both his pupils are found) to give the impression of eyebrows without making actual eyebrows.
Kia also gives Sonic his pointy ears, smooth mouth, and sculpts in his iconic grin before making his pointy nose. Once finished, he adds metal wire to the bottom of the head so it can connect with the rest of Sonic’s body.
He pops everything in a kiln at 130°C for 30 minutes so all the parts can harden. Afterwards, all he has to do is paint everything in their traditional colors before assembling all the parts together.
Kia hasn’t just worked on this Sonic figurine. He’s actually made figures of all the classic characters in the series, along with a bunch of other icons from different games, movies, and shows. You can find them all on his YouTube channel, kiArt.
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Forging An Old Metal Spring Into A Kunai Is Just As Hard As You Think It Is You’ve probably seen a Japanese kunai in a movie or anime before. Initially built as a gardening tool, these forged metal pieces can become deadly in the right hands.
Due to their multi-purpose nature, kunai were made from sturdy yet simple metals. But I’m pretty sure no one in Japan traditionally made kunai from rusty coil springs; probably because there were no cars back in the day.
Using a piece of 1.2-inch thick metal cut from a car coil spring, metalworker and restorer Random Hands creates a traditional Japanese kunai using unconventional methods.
Folding the Metal
The first order of business is to fold the coil piece into a flat metal strip. Seeing as he doesn’t have a power hammer, it took Random Hands hours of work to forge this old car part into a workable material with a hand hammer.
Once the piece is flat, he spray paints a stencil of a kunai onto the surface and cuts it into shape.
Cutting the Kunai Shape
Cutting the metal is easier said than done, since it is extremely thick. To do this, he uses an angle grinder with a metal cutting disk. Creating the straight lines of the tip is easy enough but to make the slim handle, Random Hands has to make various cuts. This allows him to create chunks of excess metal which he can hammer out later to shape the rest of the kunai.
Sanding and Filing the Edges
The metal could use a bit more work to look like a kunai, so he takes it to a belt sander to smoothen it out. Random Hands flattens the tip of the kunai while filing down those unsightly grooves at the handle. This is also a perfect time to drill the ring at the kunai’s pommel. With the general shape of the kunai finished, he sands down the sides of the metal to reveal the shine within.
Lathing the Handle
Though the metal now has a distinct kunai aesthetic, it’s still very thick and flat. He takes it to a lathe to make the round handle, which isn’t easy considering the metal around the middle is very flat. With enough time and some sanding afterwards, Random Hands turns what was once a grove-filled metal piece into a smooth handle.
The only parts left to complete now are the pommel and the blade.
Shaping the Edges of the Blade
Making the business end of the kunai looks a lot easier than making the round handle. By marking the edges of the blade and using an angle grinder, Random Hands can easily flatten the blade into the shape that he wants. To make the blade look cleaner, he files it down after grinding.
Drilling the Pommel
The final part left to shape is the pommel, which is done by using a drill bit to create a curved ring for ropes and fingers to slip into.
Tempering the Kunai
Now that the kunai is shaped, it’s time to temper the piece to make it hard and sturdy. Random Hands first places the kunai in a furnace. Once ready, he removes it from the heat and immediately cools it down.
Putting the Finishing Touches
With the hardened metal now tempered, he can use a grindstone to sharpen the blade into a working (and very deadly) tool. After some hand sanding, he sandblasts the kunai to give it a matte finish before painting it with super blue to give it a darker look and prevent the metal from rusting again.
Finally, he wraps the handle in white cloth to create a nice grip before promptly throwing the kunai into a piece of wood. It sticks to the surface like a good kunai should, and Random Hands proceeds to throw his new toy at other innocent inanimate objects.
Random Hands makes more than just weapons. His YouTube channel also has a lot of content where he restores rusty and neglected items back to their former glory. Be sure to check them out if you ever want to see nostalgic items brought back to life.
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This graphene hoodie amplifies your body’s heat, making you feel warmer in under 60 seconds Here’s the sheer magic of Graphene. A garment that’s about as thin as a regular fleece hoodie, possesses the ability of a down jacket or a thick comforter. Meet the SpeedWarm, a hoodie made from graphene-infused fabric that uses your own body heat to its advantage. In mere minutes, the SpeedWarm Hoodie will have you feeling fuzzy and toasty without needing to wear multiple layers of clothing or touching the thermostat. Go ahead and cue in the Jesse Pinkman “Yeah Science!” meme…
The SpeedWarm Hoodie is quite literally the future of thermal-wear. The hoodie, which covers you from your head to your knees, is a thin garment made from polyester fibers, with graphene woven in between. The graphene helps trap and distribute body heat, keeping you comfortable, while the polyester helps wick out moisture, allowing you to stay warm without feeling sweaty. The hoodie’s heating ability works in just seconds, given that graphene is the fastest conductor of heat and electricity in the world… and since polyester helps naturally absorb and release moisture, the SpeedWarm Hoodie can be worn immediately after a bath (so that your wet skin doesn’t feel the cold). The SpeedWarm hoodie’s proprietary fabric quickly dries you off, and self-dries pretty fast too, so you’re warm in seconds, and dry in minutes! This effectively means you can wear the Speedwarm as a hoodie, but also as a blanket, and even a bathrobe (hint: just wear it all day!)
This is where the SpeedWarm Hoodie’s aesthetic comes in. Styled as a solid-colored garment that looks like any other round-collar hoodie from the waist-up (except for those broad sleeves), the SpeedWarm is great to wear throughout the day… even on work-calls. The hoodie-aesthetic is just the right amount of casual, allowing you to pass it off as just another hoodie on video calls. Off the camera, the SpeedWarm is perfect for lounging in. Its lightweight + knee-length design keeps most of your body feeling toasty without the bulky layers, while the hood and pockets allow you to get even more comfortable… whether it’s in bed, on the couch, or even outdoors! The SpeedWarm comes in two sizes across three colors, and ships as soon as April 2021.
Designer: Jason Su of A.Brolly
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SpeedWarm Hoodie – The Hoodie that Warms You Up in 60 Seconds
The SpeedWarm is made from Graphene fiber, the world’s fastest heat-conducting fiber which also has the highest heat absorption that makes the hoodie warm-up by 5 degrees Celsius or 41 Fahrenheit within 60 seconds.
The Benefits of Graphene
Structure of Graphene
– Thermoregulation.
– The thinnest material known to the world.
– It reflects far infrared energy back into its wearer’s body.
– The warmth produced by the human body is preserved and distributed evenly.
– It can be applied in smart textile and can replace synthetic fibers, due to the lightness, greater elasticity and greater conductivity.
Design Details
Colors to Choose From
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Bugatti-inspired concepts that establish the brand’s dominance in the Automotive world! When it comes to luxurious, high-performing automobiles, Bugatti has established its dominance since the day it entered the Automotive market. Bugatti cars are high on utility, performance, speed, craftsmanship, and not to mention they even exhibit a level of artistry. Automobile fanatics and designers clammer at the release of a fresh and fierce Bugatti design, and in the anticipation of one, they often find themselves inspired and engaged! These bursts of inspiration lead to concept designs that perfectly capture and sometimes even innovate the soul of Bugatti. We’ve curated a collection of Bugatti-inspired designs, that we feel deserve a spot on the official range of Bugatti cars.
Bizarre and elusive, the late 1930s Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic is largely considered to be one of the most beautiful automotive designs in history… and perhaps even the first supercar ever! Its iconic teardrop shape, dramatic fender flares, and unique details like the split fin down the middle inspired this modern take on the Atlantic. It’s a stunning hybrid of old and new with a modern Bugatti front half and classic rear. Our mouths are watering to see more!
The Spartacus is a hulking SUV concept that ticks the same boxes as the Urus. It feels a lot like its parent company’s design language was seamlessly adapted from sports cars to much larger vehicles, in a way that makes them a class apart. The Urus looks like a Lamborghini, but it doesn’t look the same as say an Aventador or Huracan… the Spartacus employs the same philosophy. It has every bit of Bugatti’s DNA in it, but it feels like the company branching out. In its signature Blue and Black color combination, the Spartacus wears its Bugatti identity on its sleeve. The car sports the iconic horseshoe grille on the front, while the C-bar detail on the side doesn’t just exist, it defines the car’s rear, guiding the back and rounding it off in a complementary way. The car comes with a pretty voluminous body, but its razor-thin headlamps and taillamps help bring about sleekness.
Forget the Veyron, forget the Chiron, the Bugatti Type 57T has officially won our hearts! This concept car designed by Arthur B. Nustas revives the classic vintage Type 57T coupe by the German automotive giant, combining Jean Bugatti’s original work with the modern Bugatti aesthetic everyone so instantly recognizes and loves! The new Type 57T retains the car company’s headlamp aesthetic, the beautifully iconic curved door detail along the split color scheme we all are well versed with. Rather than the arc-shaped radiator, the revived 57T opts for a more triangular design, setting it apart… but those headlamps still remain unforgettably Bugatti. Speaking of unforgettably Bugatti, that Blue + Black combo sure sets our hearts on fire!
Designed as an aesthetic bridge between the Bugatti cars of the 30s (the Bugatti Type 57 in particular), and the Bugatti cars post its acquisition by Volkswagen, the Gangloff sort of feels like a combination of the styles set by Jean Bugatti (son of founder Ettore Bugatti) and Jozef Kabaň, the designer who gave us the iconic Veyron. The Gangloff is all about retaining and highlighting Bugatti’s soul. Its incredibly curvaceous exterior is a sure-shot hat-tip to the Type 57 (especially in the side-view). The fenders on the front and rear quarter panels come with exaggerated curves, pretty emblematic of cars in the 30s, but the minute you switch to the front or rear view, the car’s modern design becomes pretty evident, especially with the LED lights, racecar-style seats, and the horseshoe radiator on the front that resembles the Veyron. In fact, the car even comes with the C-bar around the gate, a feature that’s practically synonymous with the Bugatti brand today.
The Audacieux (which is French for Audacious) is a curvy, bold-looking beast that comes with an exaggerated cantilever headlight, a hubless front-wheel, and an overall form that feels like a German x French crossover collaboration between Luigi Colani and Bugatti. Where the Bugatti DNA makes itself explicitly visible is in the two-wheeler’s clear C-shaped design that is a direct reference to the symbolic C-bar in most of the company’s recent cars, as well as a detail beneath the headlamp which corresponds with the horseshoe radiator – an iconic detail that’s practically synonymous with the 111-year-old brand. Just like its cars, the motorbike comes with the option of a two-tone paint job. The Bugatti logo makes itself visible in chrome on the hubs of the rear wheel too, and given the conceptual nature of the motorbike, it’s safe to speculate that this tame beast comes with an electric heartbeat.
The Bugatti S1 Luxury SUV isn’t the first concept car we’ve seen of this nature. Our eyes were treated to an absolute beauty in the Bugatti Spartacus concept from last month, and truth be told Bugatti is one of the last few luxury brands to have never forayed into the SUV space. Fonseca’s S1 L-SUV however imagines what that would look like, were it to happen. Needless to say, a Bugatti SUV would have to look marginally different from its racecars, and the S1 L-SUV surely does. It comes with a pretty wild-looking 3-bar headlight and sports an interesting break in the surface around the edge of the front, creating an offset of the iconic horseshoe radiator. As with every TrueBlue Bugatti, the S1 L-SUV comes in a blue paint-job, exploring a combination of light blue on dark blue, with a chrome accent that creates the signature Bugatti C-bar detail. The car comes with four doors, exploring a suicide-door detail on the back, and as we move to the rear of the car, we get this pretty nifty looking tailfin that comes with its own taillight, complementing the edge-lit taillight that’s on the car’s relatively sleek, almost hatchback-ish rear.
The Bugatti Type 100M Concept motorbike is so innately Bugatti, it’s beautiful. It comes with four wheels, the dual-color combination that we know and love, and even the C-shaped line on its side which is literally a signature Bugatti detail. Its lack of detailing leaves quite a bit to the imagination though. The bike, from the renders, looks to be enclosed, allowing a rider to sit inside its closed cockpit. On the front sits a dashboard that allows you to look behind you, replacing the need for rear-view mirrors… and while none of Bugatti’s vehicles are electric, the Type 100M concept comes with an electric drive and a rather massive battery right underneath the rider, occupying what I would say is a little too much space for comfort. Impracticality aside, the bike does look, like all of Bugatti’s cars, worth a million bucks! I’d probably make the cockpit a lot bigger though.
You won’t bet on Bugatti creating a speedster any time soon although they stunned us all with the new lightweight Bolide. To fill this void, designer Alessio Minchella and 3D modeling concept artist Luigi Memola have brought to life a roofless Bugatti speedster that’s absolutely stunning. They like to call their concept “Type 251 Evo” and it’s based on the highly acclaimed production super sports car, the Bugatti Chiron. This head-turner draws inspiration from the classic Type 251 designed by Italian engineer Gioacchino Colombo of Ferrari fame. The race car was completed in 1955 and eventually taken for a spin in the 1956 French Grand Prix. The vision to design this desirable Bugatti is to have a street-legal race car that has the signature Chiron DNA, still being lightweight and overshadowing the “C” design element customary to the fastest Bugatti ever.
The Bugatti Type 35 revival is a great example of two things – A designer’s ability to push boundaries and create concepts that capture their passions, and those concepts sometimes being powerful enough to actually pave the way forward for something bigger. Little did Andreis van Overbeeke know that his desire to see Bugatti compete in the Formula 1 series would result in him landing an internship at his dream company. The desire to actually see a Bugatti-branded F1 car pushed Andries to create a concept that he published on Reddit. The images ran their course, reaching Bugatti’s execs, who then went on to invite van Overbeeke to their headquarters in Molsheim, France, for an internship… resulting in a much more fleshed-out concept car with the Type 35 revival. The image above shows the Type 35 revival in its glorious avatar standing right beside Bugatti’s own Vision GT vehicle – its spiritual predecessor.
Every car sits somewhere on a spectrum ranging from utilitarianism to craftsmanship. Some cars are more utilitarian than others, other cars showcase a level of artistry that makes them truly stand out… the Bugatti Next-57, I’d argue, sits so far on the artistic end of the spectrum that it really pushes the boundaries of how beautiful a car could look. Created as an homage to the classic Bugatti 57, the Next-57 celebrates every inch of the vintage car by modernizing it, exaggerating it, and making it even more beautiful. The result? A chariot fit for a king, with an incredibly elegant long body that tapers off at the front, exposes the axles on the front wheels, giving a chariot-like appearance, along with an interior that’s ensconced in luxurious red suede. The black and red combination is a statement in their own right. Giving the car its mysterious, million-bucks appearance, the chariot’s gloss-black exterior is a magnet for sharp highlights and high contrasts, making it look like a jewel on the road. The car’s long body starts with its edge-lit headlights, sitting between the externally-placed wheels. The wheels are covered by fenders that half-cover it, revealing the luxurious constellation-inspired rims behind, that shine and rotate as the wheels turn.

This jet-black cabin uses razor-sharp angles to create the ideal 007 getaway! STIPFOLD, an architecture and design studio, develops projects that are meant to ignite your curiosity. Driven by the pursuit of singularity and the advancement of technology, the studio’s aim during the creation process is to construct buildings that leave an emotional mark, even if any given design doesn’t exactly match your style. Born out of a 6-hour long sketch period, Blackbird, STIPFOLD’s latest project does just that.
Blackbird is a getaway cabin that exists as “a place to be by oneself.” The getaway cabin, an angular structure of black mass combined with tinted glass and a jagged, haphazard display of metal beams, resembles a spaceship that can land in any environment. As conceptualized, Blackbird has landed in a Georgian forest clearing, amidst dense fog and textured pine trees, where it appears right at home. From the outside, below a white, cloudy sky, Blackbird’s asymmetrical frame has a tough exterior constructed from metal to provide a sense of security. Meant to dissolve the barrier between nature and the interior, the tinted glass windows evoke a feeling of privacy, like a lookout that allows its residents to remain hidden while scanning their surroundings.
STIPFOLD remains committed to blurring boundary lines in order to create unified spaces that permeate all of their designs. The same is true for Blackbird. Inside the getaway cabin, the different rooms seamlessly merge with one another, being only visually separated by means of interior design. The kitchen and resting area share the same room, but are separated by the kitchen’s island and resting area’s fireplace. Sharing the same exhaust hood, the kitchen’s aluminum-clad island merges effortlessly with the open fireplace. While the exterior of Blackbird works to ward off unwanted visitors, the interior welcomes all else with natural wood elements transparent, floor-to-ceiling glass pane windows.
Designer: STIPFOLD
Following a 6-hour long sketch, Blackbird was conceptualized.
The getaway cabin comes equipped with a parking spot and a roofed outdoor patio.
The jet black angles of Blackbird provide a sense of security against the brush of the forest.
Room barriers dissolve into one another inside Blackbird, creating one unified space.

This Nixie clock and radio with a Hi-Fi speaker is for audiophiles who savor pure vintage! In times when we all are so accustomed to platter-served music on our cloud streaming services like Spotify or Tidal, the good old radio is the nostalgic detour we need to refresh our mind, body, and soul. Combine that with a steampunk flavor of vintage Nixie tubes + brass trims, and you’ve got a beautiful little box ready to take you on a melodic journey.
The Retio brings the antique 90’s essence of eye-catchy Nixie tubes and the golden appeal of radio listening for people who value retro things in their modern form. Handcrafted in San Francisco Bay Area with profound attention to detail, the radio clock is crafted from American black walnut. It’s embellished with 360 brass dials and corner trims to give it that cool steampunk appeal. The IN-12 Nixie tubes used in each one of these units are sourced from genuine vintage stock collected in the 90s. That single bit makes the Retio unique in its own rights. For audiophiles who appreciate sublime quality, Retio is the one to have in your living room or bedroom. That’s because it comes with support for AUX and Bluetooth connectivity with a Hi-Fi speaker module that is pure bliss for the ears.
Add to that the clock functionality and you are all prepared to get rid of your desk clock, vintage AM/FM radio, and portable speaker for this beautiful piece of vintage accessory. The light from the glowing Nixie tubes will suffice your need to warmly illuminate the corner of your room, so it’s another added advantage of sporting this in your home interiors. I already can’t get enough of this timeless radio clock, can you?
Designer: Retio
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Furniture designed with hidden details that put your IKEA furniture to shame: Part 9 I believe the true essence of a home is held in its furniture. Furniture has the power to make or break a home, set the mood and tone of a space, and capture and express the soul of that particular house. A great furniture design not only feels like a piece of art but also touches your heart. Once you settle on to it, or place your favorite book upon it, or simply brush past it, you need to instantly feel “Ah, I’m home!” This collection of beautiful and intricate furniture designs aspire to do exactly that! Designed with extreme attention to detail, overflowing with love and care, and not only aesthetically but functionally pleasing, these furniture designs will be an invaluable addition to your living space, making you feel truly at home.
Distinguished by its elegant formal shape and enhanced by its large rounded leather-wrapped arms, the Ryokō Armchair by David Girelli gives an instant feeling of calmness. Inspired by a Japanese folding chair from the 1960s, its features, materials, and joinery details elevate the lines and design elements of the chair. The loose back cushion adjusts around the ash frame when seated and offers an innovative sense of comfort.
Aero bar cart by Plataform4 for Lider Interiors shows us a more elegant version of the classic straw woven ventilated cabinet door contrasted by a simple leather pull. This merging of two extremely traditional materials in a modern avatar is guaranteed to be a show-stealer, letting you store your bar essentials while bringing a light airy feel to any room.
The connect bar stool by Kin Design features three solid oak legs, which hold up a contrasting footrest. The footrest is a little pyramid of brass that sits comfortably beneath the round seat, tucked plushly between the wooden legs. The brass is a little hidden detail that provides a stark yet stylish contrast to the otherwise somber and simple stool. It’s a beautiful addition to your bar space!
We have seen a lot of designs that incorporate resin – it’s a trending art that is here to stay. While most designers use resin to rework their design, designer Meubles Thouret decided to take an innovative approach that helps you appreciate the wood in its natural form even better – using resin to mold or join different pieces of wood. Each individual wooden piece retains that cut pattern, which is now encased in resin, and the added use of resin means the tricky joinery is now in the hands of this flexible material.
If you are someone who loves to have a clean, organized, clutter-free desk then the Shelter desk by João Teixeira is the one for you! It was designed keeping in mind all the devices, wires, and accessories that live on our workstations, however, Shelter still remains minimal while maximizing the value of a desk. There are three slim drawers on the front side that are big enough to store your gadgets, like tablets or laptops. The back drawer was designed for you to hide all your cables and chargers. But the beauty of this desk lies in the curved drawers that give this desk its fluidity while retaining the functionality of the design.
Atelier 2+ designed The Greenhouse for Design House Stockholm. As its name signifies, it’s a tiny greenhouse that is small enough to perfectly fit into your home, and yet spacious enough to actually house a miniature garden. It’s an artistic sculpture that helps you connect with nature without having to step out of your home.
The Pegg Desk by Pegg Furniture is a fun, buildable, and easy to move around desk! You can put together the simple wooden desk by yourself. Pegging the legs to the desk is an intimate process, allowing you to be hands-on and build your own furniture. The visible pegs create an interesting and rustic detail of the desk. And when the desk is on the move, you can store the pegs and the legs within the desk top.
The sliding door of the Casanova Sideboard by Wewood is the star of this piece of furniture! Pieces of oak and wood were used to create the pattern on the door, crafted delicately by hand, utilizing the skills of extremely talented artists. Created from 100 percent solid wood, the Sideboard can be used to store your precious knick-knacks or even as a TV cabinet.
Designed by OS & OOS Studio and Klaas Kuiken with materials supplied by StoneCycling, this Terrazzo Bench is a sustainable solution for the increasing amount of glass waste produced in Zanzibar. “Zanzibar is an island with about 1 million inhabitants. In recent times, tourism has grown markedly and so too the volume of refuse. bottle-up seeks a solution to this issue. Most furniture for hotels in Zanzibar is currently imported from foreign countries and is often made of wood, which means it can be badly affected by the weather conditions on the island. Furniture made from Trending Terrazzo is much more sustainable, beautiful to look at, and generates awareness for bottle-up.”
Designed by SÓHA for Savannah Bay Gallery, this sculpted bench was created wholly from copper and wood. The two materials combine and contrast with one another simultaneously, to create a piece of seating that seems more like a work of art. The rugged copper texture of the bench makes for an interesting visual, though it may not be very comfy to sit upon!

This Knife’s Edge Is Made Using Replaceable Utility Blades By now, a lot of people credit Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. As the saying goes, the best person for the job is a lazy person, because he’ll find the easiest way to do it.
Now I’m not saying the founder of Experimental Fun is lazy, but he does come up with interesting ways to reduce the amount of work he has to do in the future.
Take for example this customized kitchen knife, which is made to hold three utility blades on its cutting edge. By swapping out the cheap blades once they get dull, you never have to sharpen the knife itself.
Let’s take a look at Experimental Fun’s custom knife, shall we?
Making The Blade
The main attraction of the knife is the blade shape that is drawn onto a piece of metal before being cut out.
Once the metal is cut, three indents are carved into the cutting edge using a drill bit. These indents will keep the utility blades safe and snug while you slice away using the handle.
Threading the Screws
To keep the utility blades from falling off, you’d want to add some connectors. After drilling two small holes per utility knife indent, Experimental Fun uses a tap wrench to create the screw threads. These will allow you to remove the blades once they become dull and replace them with fresh ones.
The Handle
You can only do so much with a handleless knife, so make sure to cut and carve out a wooden piece to fit around the tang of the blade. Using a variety of saws, drill bits, and even the exact same utility knives at the end of the knife he’s making, Experimental Fun makes himself a handle fit for a knife-wielding expert.
While most knives use rivets to connect the knife blade and the handle, he instead opts to use screws and nuts. By cutting off the excess metal and filing it down, he creates custom-made connectors specific to the knife.
Putting on the Finishing Touches
Both the metal and the wood get a good amount of sanding and polish to make them more presentable. With that finished, the only thing left to do now is fit in the utility knives and cut some stuff up!
Though Experimental Fun made this knife specifically to save time sharpening blades, he has still mentioned that the carbon blades corrode quite easily, requiring them to be swapped out often. It also goes without saying the multiple parts of the knife make it harder to clean than a single blade knife.
This doesn’t change the fact this knife looks downright awesome. Experimental Fun has always wanted to make something like this and hopes to eventually sell these knives to other like-minded lazy knife users. To see when they will be available, check out his YouTube channel. Oh, and you can also find more of his other experimental projects there, as well!
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Watching A Native American Chainsaw Carving Being Made Is Both Relaxing And A Learning Experience We’ve covered wood carvings before here on SolidSmack, but it’s not often we see them made out of a single piece of wood… nor this big.
Vlad Carving is a YouTube channel dedicated to the art of making giant wood carvings. In one of his videos, he carves a giant bust of a Native American, along with two wolf heads to keep it company:
Going into details about the carving defeats the purpose of the entire video, which is to relax and watch as one man creates a masterpiece from scratch. But look closely and you will get to learn more about his creative process when it comes to making these giant works of wooden art.
For example, you’ll notice how he starts off with a rough sketch before drawing the base features onto the wood. Once the head of the Native American and the wolves are in place, he starts chipping away at the giant tree trunk.
Before the woodwork even begins, you’ll see that our man uses at least three different kinds of chainsaws. Swapping between these not only saves him from refuelling each chainsaw, but the different lengths and widths of guide bars allow him to cut the features of his Native American carving.
This brings me to another revelation: there is a surprising amount of chainsaw work involved in this particular piece. Now you would think that making such a fine piece of wood art would require more precise tools (it does), but the ratio of chainsaw work to chisel work seems to be about 1:1.
Features like the Native American’s furrowed brow, chin, and the wolves’ fur are all carved into the wood using different chainsaws. There is a bit of sketch work involved in order to provide a guide, but the actual cutting is done using only these man-made machines.
As the carving starts to reveal itself, more intricate details require more precise tools. Our man busts out the hammer and chisel and gets to working on the wolves’ teeth, and the Native American’s face and headdress.
It takes quite a bit of time and effort but once it’s finished, he lightly sands the carving before putting on some wood paint and finish.
My description of the video does not do it justice. It’s easier to get immersed in Vlad Carving’s… err, carving process if you watch it for yourself (preferably on a Sunday morning with a nice cup of hot chocolate). You can find more of his work on his YouTube channel.
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Chill Your Soda In Record Time With A Powerade Bottle And An Electric Drill The best part about having a chilled soda is drinking one after a hard, hot day’s work. The worst part? Waiting for it to get cold.
While you could wait 20 minutes by storing your beverage in a cooler or fridge, Chris Notap has found a much faster way to chill a soda: through an empty Powerade bottle and an electric drill:
The reason Chris uses a Powerade bottle isn’t because of some sponsorship deal (though they really should reach out to him). It’s because the bottle’s unique design allows for sodas to fit exactly the way he wants them to.
The Powerade bottle in question has three grooves on the side for a handgrip, a measurement of 7 and 3/4ths of an inch in height, and a flat cover.
Start by drilling a ¼-inch hole into the center of the bottle cap. Then, fit a ¼-inch bolt (roughly 1/2-inch long), along with a washer on either side and a nut through the bottom of the cap. The end of the bolt should protrude from the top of the bottle cap, along with the nut.
Next, you’ll want to cut the top half of the Powerade bottle in between the embossed letters “D” and “E”. Once done, you have the option of drilling two holes on either side of the remaining bottle to help your soda cool faster.
Lastly, fit the bolt to your drill, set it to low speed, and fit your soda into the Powerade top with the bottom side facing the drill.
Dip the beverage into your cooler and rev it up at full speed on low for about a minute and a half. The rotations will chill your soda at a breakneck pace which, thankfully, Chris mentions doesn’t affect the amount of fizz. If all goes well, you should have a soda with a temperature that sits nicely around the 4°C mark (or 40°F).
It may have taken 90 seconds to cool the beverage with the drill, but it could take you an extra 5 minutes to make this modified cooling apparatus. Still, 6 and a half minutes feels like a short time compared to the 20 grueling minutes you have to wait by storing your soda in a cooler the old-fashioned way.
Chris has more DIY creations, inventions, and hacks on his YouTube channel, Chris Notap.
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Someone Actually Turned Adam Savage’s Book Into A Working Hammer Back in 2019, MythBusters host, special effects designer, and all-around crazy creator Adam Savage released a book titled Every Tool’s a Hammer. Chronicling his career as a creator, it takes a deep dive into Savage’s creative process and how he approaches crafting… well, I mean anything.
While I’m sure creators will get a kick out of reading the book, Peter Brown thought it would be fun to take the book’s title literally and turn Savage’s biography into an actual hammer:
Using everyone’s favorite hardening material, art resin, Brown slathers the stuff through 310 pages of soft, pliable paper.
I actually thought he would use the hard book covers as a way to help make the hammer sturdier but no: Brown insists on doing this the old-fashioned way. He cuts out the book covers as well as the first page of the book before taking his brush and laying art resin on each and every one of the 310 pages.
This is probably the longest, most grueling way you could cover anything in resin but according to Brown, it is also the surest way to get the entire book completely rock solid. You can see his mental state start to deteriorate throughout the process. What starts as a per-page brushing becomes a per 2-3 page brushing, with Brown hoping the resin seeps through the pages as he goes along.
He runs out of resin at around the 183-page mark, so he mixes another batch and decides to change his plan of attack. Brown abandons the brushes and instead resorts to pouring the resin between a few pages and spreading it using his gloved hands. This is nowhere close to his original idea of painting resin on each and every page, but the casting process is starting to give him carpal tunnel syndrome (so he has to contend with this alternative method).
Eventually, he finishes casting the whole thing in resin and leaves the book to dry before cutting it into the shape of a hammer.
Once the resin dries, he stumbles into a new obstacle: the book is now way too hard for some of his tools to cut through it. His CNC machine fails him, so Brown has to cast a whole ‘nother Adam Savage book in art resin before he can attempt to make a new hammer.
This time, he takes his scroll saw to the resin book and cuts out a hammer pattern. Unlike his CNC machine, Brown’s scroll saw relies heavily on his hand-eye coordination to cut out the pattern. It’s also slow, time-consuming, and just by looking at it, is also very rickety.
After cutting out the hammer, he takes it to the sander and router table to smoothen out the edges and make it look just a tiny bit more professional. Elsewhere, he epoxies the excess parts of the book back into the covers to make a nice little storage container for his new hammer.
Et voilà, a book hammer made using Adam Savage’s Every Tool’s a Hammer. This thing is way harder and heavier than it was before, making it ideal for pounding nails and other objects into place. It would have been cool if Brown fleshed out the claw portion of the hammer so you could remove nails with it but making a hammer out of paper is tough enough as it is.
While I didn’t intend for the title to be taken literally, I am delighted that it was. Well done, @kludge1977! https://t.co/ux7f8kDUA9 #EveryToolsAHammer
— Adam Savage (@donttrythis) August 2, 2019
It’s nice to know even Adam Savage himself was proud that someone took his book title so literally. It just goes to show that madness always appreciates madness!
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Make Your Own Retractable Wolverine Claws With Popsicle Sticks and Pressurized Syringes Tons of creative X-Men fans have made Wolverine claws that can cut through pretty much anything. Nonetheless, only a few of those folks can brag a pair that actually draws and retracts. Just as a refresher, in addition to Wolverine’s advanced healing factor (his actual mutant power), he has a solid adamantium skeleton complete with three retractable claws on each hand.
Makers worldwide have put their own spin on creating these indestructible claws, but Brian from Brains techKnowlogy is one of the few I’ve seen who has made a retractable version of the same claws on a budget:
Using popsicle sticks, metal wire, syringes, and some tubing, his claws can be made just by anyone. The reason? No metalworking required.
The Wooden Claws
While not as indestructible as metal claws, these wooden claws serve as perfect alternatives. They’re lighter, more malleable, and can still cut through a water balloon or two.
Brian glues several sticks around the single, protruding claw. To get the claws to draw, he makes two wooden housings: a bigger one housing another per claw. On the other hand, a few wooden stoppers glued on top of the housings will keep the claws in a prime cutting position.
Finally, he adds a couple of small hooks fitted with twine so the claws can retract once the syringe is depressurized.
Prepping the Syringes
Getting the claws to draw and retract requires the aid of a few syringes. Each claw has a syringe placed under it, so when Brian puts pressure on them, they push the claws forward.
Each syringe will be connected to another syringe located just underneath Brian’s hand. He adds some metal wire rings to the tips of the plungers so when he pulls on them, they will draw the claws on the other side of his hand.
Does Wolverine Have Green Blood?
Connecting the underhand syringes to the claws are plastic tubes. Before fitting the tubes, Brian first fills the syringes with green, red, and clear colored water (at least I hope it’s water) to get the pressure flowing. He does this since the air pressure inside the tubes might not be enough to push the claws forward.
Once filled, he fits in the tubes and prepares to get his sknit on. (That’s the sound Wolverine’s claws make in the comics, in case you didn’t know!)
Fitting On The Claws
Each of the overhand syringes is glued onto a couple of giant popsicle sticks and fitted with Velcro, so Brian can fit them onto his hand. Likewise, the underhand syringes are also glued to a single giant popsicle stick and fitted with a couple of hooks that latch onto the Velcro strap I mentioned. It’s a simple arrangement, but you have to admit it all fits very nicely together.
It won’t cut through everything, but the way these claws draw and retract are just so cool. Brian pops a couple of water balloons with no problem and adds some kickass sound effects to make the claws sound like the real deal.
You can check out more of Brian’s creations and experiments on his YouTube channel, Brains tehKnowlogy.
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Feel The Nostalgia With This Pokémon Papercraft Diorama It doesn’t matter if you were a kid in the early 2000s: you couldn’t go a day without hearing about Pokémon during those years. What spawned into the now gargantuan media franchise started as a pair of video games for the Nintendo Game Boy. Pokémon Red and Blue that were both released in 1996 have established their special spots not just in video game history, but so as in the childhoods of countless individuals (mine included).
GUMY Art’s creator is yet another individual whose life has been affected by the cute and powerful creatures. His YouTube channel is dedicated to creating art based on video games, anime, and other forms of pop culture. He’s recently been focusing on creating 3D papercraft dioramas of iconic 2D scenes, and what better scene is there than the beginning of Pokémon:
This latest diorama of his is based on Pokémon Leaf Green and Fire Red. These games are actually remakes of the original Red and Blue, but it still captures the feel of those titles, just with updated gameplay and graphics.
But enough about the game, let’s take a look at the diorama:
The Pokémon Lab
The backdrop is fairly simple to make. By printing a pre-set background and using the help of a needle to get the folds just right, you can recreate a 3D version of Professor Oak’s Pokémon lab.
GUMY Art uses some clear tape to stick the frames of the three starting Pokémon onto the background. This allows them to protrude a bit and gives the illusion that they are hanging from the wall.
Finally, he glues the backdrop onto a makeshift cardboard stage. This serves as the base of the whole diorama and will support all the props and pieces he’ll add.
Which brings us to…
The Props
This part is much more difficult and time-consuming. While GUMY Art still has to print out the different pieces of the diorama, most of these are way smaller and require delicate hands to place and assemble them in place.
First, he has to carefully cut out each of the props by hand. Take note that some of the props – such as the furniture and tables – have foldable pieces that allow them to lean onto the background of the lab. GUMY Art cuts out all these tiny pieces and uses a needle to make the foldable parts easier to work with.
Next comes the glue. He has to make sure he uses just the right amount of adhesive: too much amount and the glue will seep into the paper and make it look soggy; too little and the pieces won’t stick. I’d actually recommend using some tweezers if you plan on attempting this yourself, as the process looks really impossible with nothing to use but just your bare hands. (Especially so if you have gigantic fingers as I do!)
With enough persistence and a lot more patience, you should be able to glue every little thing in Professor Oak’s lab; the professor and the main protagonist included!
You wouldn’t want the pieces to fly everywhere so to make things more permanent, wait for the glue to dry before placing the diorama in a glass case. GUMY Art has posted links to everything you need to make your own diorama in the video description: from the glue and paper he uses, all the way to the prints you need for the Pokémon lab and props.
Be sure to check out his YouTube channel as well. He does a lot of easy-to-make projects which you can do at home without too many complex materials!
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Check Out This Wood-turned Eyeball, Complete With Matching Eye Socket Holder Woodturning can be used to make tons of useful things but sometimes, you just want to make something that looks extremely cool but serves zero purposes.
Andy Phillip, woodturner and resin aficionado, loves using different combinations of wood and resins to different effects. In one of his recent projects, he mixes a number of resins to create a giant eyeball:
The resin contains a mix of polyurethane and mica powders, which give the resin its unique colors.
The Sclera
Undoubtedly the centerpiece of this project, the eyeball is made out of different layers of colored resin. The largest layer – the sclera of the eye – consists of white resin mixed with a dash of red at the bottom.
Once the resin is cured, Phillip sticks it onto his lathe and drills a hole in the middle for the iris.
The Iris
No, I’m not talking about the Goo Goo Dolls song – this is a fake iris which represents a real iris of an eye.
Phillip makes this part of the eye by pouring the hole in the center of the sclera with blue resin. When the hole is almost full, he mixes in some yellow resin before slightly overflowing the iris just a tad above the sclera layer with blue resin (this is to elevate the iris above the rest of the eyeball – just like a real eye).
He cures the resin once more before drilling yet another hole in the center of the iris. This time, however, the hole is for the pupil.
The Pupil
This pupil is made from solid black resin and is poured into the dead center of the eyeball. Just like the iris before it, Phillip slightly overflows the resin above the previous layer to elevate it.
It’s Turning Time!
Once all the pieces are in place, Phillip cures the resin one last time and begins chipping the resin into an eyeball shape.
You know how it goes: strings of resin fly everywhere with the help of some woodturning tools. He turns the cylindrical piece of resin into a sphere, making sure to put emphasis on one side of the eyeball so the different layers can be seen properly.
To give the eyeball some more detail, he paints some red blood vessels on the back of the sclera. Just like with a real eye, this gives the wood-turned eyeball some life. Add this to the protruding iris and pupil, and you have yourself an eerie-looking eyeball that looks right back at you.
Don’t Forget the Eye Socket!
To hold the eyeball in place, Phillip makes a wooden stand. The stand, made from spalted beech wood, is turned and cut until it very much resembles an eye socket. He glues the stand onto a flat piece of wood before getting ready to place the main attraction: the eyeball.
The eyeball has undergone some sanding and polishing to make it smooth and shiny like the real thing. It’s nice that Phillip didn’t glue the eyeball to the eye socket, so you can pick up the eye and reposition it to make an illusion that it follows your visitors’ movements.
Andy Phillip has tons of woodturning videos on his YouTube channel, but he also has his own webpage, Instagram account, Pinterest, and Etsy shop if you want to purchase some of his works.
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The King Of Random Finds Out If Candy Rope Can Hold Your Weight Candy may not have a lot of useful benefits (it causes diabetes, toothache, and high blood pressure just to name a few), but many people still love it. It’s sweet, it makes for a great Valentine’s Day gift, and (shockingly) you can string a bunch of it to hold your weight.
Nate and Cali at The King of Random love candy rope so much that they decided to put its name to the test. Using 12 pounds of the red licorice, they see if a thick rope of sugar can hold the weight of a grown person.
They start by using a fish scale to test the weight limit of a single knotted piece of licorice. After discovering it can hold about 2.5 pounds (1.13kg), they test it again with 8 strands of licorice – 4 of which are joined into one giant strand, and another 4 which are braided together.
Turns out, it doesn’t really matter whether or not the candy rope is braided. Since 4 strands can hold a weight of about 7 pounds (3.18kg), they upscale the number of strands to 100 and see if it can carry and hold a human being for more than a few seconds.
Using a pair of larger hooks drilled into the ceiling, Cali takes her pair of hundred licorice ropes and hangs on it as she put their theory to the test.
Despite its oily feature which makes it a challenge to hold on to, the licorice actually CAN hold you mid-air for a good number of seconds before breaking. Nate and Cali decide to use paper towels to mitigate the slipperiness of the candy ropes with much success.
They try the same experiment again, this time with a much taller Nate using paper towel handholds from the get-go:
This time, Nate is able to swing from the licorice rope for a few seconds… right before his sweet tooth gets the better of him and he starts eating away at the candy ropes! You can see the licorice ropes on Nate’s right start to snap even prior to his attack on the other side, so while licorice can hold a human, you will definitely need to add more ropes depending on your body weight and appetite.
Nate and Cali try making another pair of licorice ropes, this time using braided licorice instead of bunched up strands. After discovering a single, long piece of braided licorice starts to break at the knots, they have decided to make a hundred of these time-consuming licorice ropes.
The King of Random is dedicated to all things random. They explore life hacks, answer scientific questions with facts, and much, much more on their YouTube channel.
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A DIY Enthusiast Shows An Easy Way To Completely Hide Wooden Screws For some reason, no one ever thought of making surface-colored screws. Think about it: if you could produce screws that would blend well with the color and texture of the surface they would be put in, you would make millions of projects and builds look way cleaner. Most of all, you would also make a killing by selling them on the market.
However, until some smart entrepreneur reads this, we have to contend with the use of those unsightly metal screws or using different, more visually appealing alternatives like welding or gluing.
Korean DIY enthusiast 검은별 공작소 DIY CRAFTS may be of assistance when it comes to hiding screws on wooden surfaces. Using a chisel, some wood glue, and a clamp, he shows an easy way to make it, so that no one (including yourself) ever finds the screws on your projects:
After showcasing a couple of conventional methods of connecting pieces of wood (such as hiding them under wooden pegs and outright using pegs as connectors), he gives us a step-by-step tutorial on his own method.
Start by taking a chisel and chipping a layer of wood off the top of the area where you plan to put your screw. This is the hardest part, as you have to make sure the layer doesn’t detach from the rest of the wood. You don’t have to worry about the peel being uniform, but you do need to take care as to not accidentally peel off any of the wood hiding the layer underneath it.
Once the layer is peeled, you can drill your screw onto the bulk of the wood. You can do this manually with a hand screwdriver or you can follow the tutorial and use a mechanical screwdriver to save on time.
With the screw in place, all you need to do now is apply some wood glue and clamp that peeled layer tight onto the wood. Clean the surface after it dries and – Bam! Not even you can find where you put your screws.
Of course, not being able to find the screws make it a pain to disassemble or repair, so you might want to put a light pencil mark in case you have to come back to them. Peeling the layer above the screw is also a problem, as it will most likely chip off and break due to the wood glue keeping it in place.
But if you’re making something to last, you won’t have to worry about these problems. You might even completely forget that your project has screws in it!
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Graceful Prints by Ellen Von Wiegand Ellen Von Wiegand est une artiste qui a développé un intérêt pour la gravure en étudiant les linogravures de Picasso et Der Blaue Reinter alors qu’elle terminait sa maîtrise en art contemporain à Christie’s Education en 2011. Cette dernière est néanmoins en grande partie autodidacte dans ce domaine. Dans ses pièces gracieuses, l’artiste se sert d’elle-même comme modèle. « J’ai commencé à me servir de moi-même comme modèle car cela me donnait beaucoup de contrôle sur mes compositions et je n’avais pas la possibilité de payer quelqu’un d’autre. Cependant, l’utilisation de mon corps a fait évoluer mon travail vers quelque chose ...

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Beautiful Illustrations Inspired by the Natural World Le monde naturel, et en particulier les « petites choses qui peuvent passer inaperçues ou être ignorées par les autres« , comme elle l’explique, sont les deux principales sources d’inspiration de Rose Sanderson. L’artiste dessine et peint des œuvres, sur lesquelles elle représente des oiseaux, des insectes et d’autres animaux. Son travail « vise à provoquer de manière discrète avec empathie et intrigue« . Rose Sanderson est une artiste reconnue dans le monde des beaux-arts, et expose dans de nombreux endroits à travers la planète. Elle apparaît également dans des publications et crée des œuvres pour des entreprises.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur ...

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Classic Portraits Wearing a Mask Depuis une quinzaine d’années, l’artiste allemand Volker Hermes revisite des peintures de portraits classiques en dissimulant leur bouche, leurs yeux ou la totalité de leur visage à travers des photomontages. Intitulé « Hidden Portraits », son projet permet de se concentrer sur autre chose que les visages et émotions des personnes représentées, pour prêter plus d’attention aux vêtements et aux tissus qui comportent également de nombreux détails. Et autant dire que depuis la pandémie mondiale et l’obligation de couvrir la moitié de son visage d’un masque, les œuvres de l’artiste prennent une toute autre dimension.
Images : © Volker Hermes

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Stunning Fluid Installation by Anne Vieux C’est au sud de Bentonville, dans l’Arkansas que l’artiste contemporaine New Yorkaise Anne Vieux a réalisé, fin 2020, une installation murale holographique. Commissionnée par l’organisation artistique locale Oz Art et organisée par l’agence créative Justkids, l’œuvre picturale donne un visage futuriste et hyperfluide au bâtiment du cinéma Skylight, en jouant avec la perception et les limites de l’espace. Avec des couleurs ondulantes qui alternent entre des tons chaud et froid, Anne Vieux propose aussi la métaphore d’une société mouvante et ouverte, dans laquelle les frontières et limites s’effacent pour permettre l’unité.
Images : © Justkids.art

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Dreamy Pictures of Flowers C’est durant le confinement, privée des sujets humains avec lesquels elle préfère travailler, que Barbara Cole a commencé à s’intéresser aux végétaux qui l’entouraient, et plus particulièrement aux fleurs. Dans son dernier projet « Apparences », la photographe établie à Toronto, au Canada, sublime encore la beauté des fleurs qu’elle a immortalisées en leur donnant un mouvement flou. À travers sa technique et son travail en post-production, l’artiste est ainsi parvenue à infuser ses images de l’esthétique classique de la peinture à l’huile.
Images : © Barbara Cole

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Food Inspired by Mario’s World C’est au sein du Super Nintendo World, une zone dédiée à l’univers de Mario dans le parc Universal d’Osaka, au Japon qu’est situé le Kinopio’s Cafe (ou Café Toad en français). Au menu de ce restaurant-snack, un ensemble de plats tout droits sortis du monde du plombier moustachu : des calzones aux nouilles japonaises renfermées dans des carapaces vertes, un Bloc Tiramisu qui présente de fortes ressemblances avec les blocs mystère du jeu, le Mario Bacon Cheeseburger, ou encore une Pizza Bowl en forme de Toad (avec des champignons à l’intérieur, évidemment). L’endroit parfait pour reprendre des forces, entre le château de Peach et le Royaume Champignon.
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Ocean Inspired Illustrations Basé à Hawaii, l’artiste et designer de surf Eduardo Bolioli crée des illustrations impressionnantes. On y voit par exemple des figures de femmes aux seins nus nageant sous l’eau avec des palmes, au milieu de raies. Les personnages, humains ou animaux, sont représentés devant des fonds colorés, composés d’éléments naturels tels que des feuilles ou des ananas. L’artiste, né à Montevideo, en Uruguay, a remporté plusieurs prix pour son art, notamment le prix Aloha de la société HACER, le prix Stimulus de la Biennale de Mosca en Uruguay (1995) et le prix Premiere aux Embiez, en France, entre autres. Au ...

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Autistic Artist Explains Her Everyday Life in a Comic Illustratrice à Strasbourg, Salina a récemment été diagnostiquée autiste. Pendant des années, la jeune femme ignorait qu’elle vivait avec ce trouble neuro-développemental, si ce n’est qu’elle était plus stressé que la moyenne dans certaines situations. Pour que les personnes autistes soient mieux comprises, l’artiste a décidé de dessiner une BD, afin d’expliquer au grand public les manifestations de l’autisme sur le quotidien.
Salina est présente sur Instagram et Etsy.

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Many People and Colors : a Traditional Game in India Au lendemain de Holi, une fête hindoue haute en couleurs qui se déroule dans tout le pays, Huranga prend le relai. C’est au temple Dauji, près de la ville de Mathura en Inde que le photographe londonien Matt Porteous a assisté à ce jeu traditionnel qui réunit un village entier, et oppose les hommes aux femmes. Les hommes déverser des seaux de couleur liquide sur les vêtements des femmes, tandis que celles-ci doivent déshabiller les hommes. L’occasion pour le photographe de capturer la foule en mouvement et les couleurs suspendues dans l’air.
Images : © Matt Porteous

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Dreamy Western Pass in China Après son projet « Colorful Danxia« , le photographe Jonas Daley continue d’immortaliser les reliefs chinois, et se focalise cette fois sur le col de Yangguang, situé dans le village de Nanhu, à environ 70 kilomètres de la ville de Dunhuang, dans la province de Dansu. Dans cette nouvelle série de paysages, l’artiste met en valeur et en couleur les reliefs qui se détachent du ciel, dans ce massif rocheux utilisé comme poste de défense de la frontière du pays durant le règne de l’empereur Wu de la dynastie des Han.
Images : © Jonas Daley

Graceful Prints by Ellen Von Wiegand Ellen Von Wiegand est une artiste qui a développé un intérêt pour la gravure en étudiant les linogravures de Picasso et Der Blaue Reinter alors qu’elle terminait sa maîtrise en art contemporain à Christie’s Education en 2011. Cette dernière est néanmoins en grande partie autodidacte dans ce domaine. Dans ses pièces gracieuses, l’artiste se sert d’elle-même comme modèle. « J’ai commencé à me servir de moi-même comme modèle car cela me donnait beaucoup de contrôle sur mes compositions et je n’avais pas la possibilité de payer quelqu’un d’autre. Cependant, l’utilisation de mon corps a fait évoluer mon travail vers quelque chose de très personnel. Lorsque nous sommes nus, nous sommes au plus vulnérable, et j’en suis venue à voir mon travail comme un moyen de me réconcilier avec les morceaux timides, peu sûrs et craintifs de moi-même« , explique-t-elle. Cependant, l’artiste ne considère pas ses gravures comme des autoportraits, mais plutôt comme des représentations physiques d’états émotionnels de l’être. « Homme ou femme, j’espère que chaque image reflète une partie de moi-même« , ajoute-t-elle.
Pour en découvrir plus sur l’artiste et son travail, rendez-vous sur son site internet ou son compte Instagram.

Beautiful Illustrations Inspired by the Natural World Le monde naturel, et en particulier les « petites choses qui peuvent passer inaperçues ou être ignorées par les autres« , comme elle l’explique, sont les deux principales sources d’inspiration de Rose Sanderson. L’artiste dessine et peint des œuvres, sur lesquelles elle représente des oiseaux, des insectes et d’autres animaux. Son travail « vise à provoquer de manière discrète avec empathie et intrigue« . Rose Sanderson est une artiste reconnue dans le monde des beaux-arts, et expose dans de nombreux endroits à travers la planète. Elle apparaît également dans des publications et crée des œuvres pour des entreprises.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site internet.

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Classic Portraits Wearing a Mask Depuis une quinzaine d’années, l’artiste allemand Volker Hermes revisite des peintures de portraits classiques en dissimulant leur bouche, leurs yeux ou la totalité de leur visage à travers des photomontages. Intitulé « Hidden Portraits », son projet permet de se concentrer sur autre chose que les visages et émotions des personnes représentées, pour prêter plus d’attention aux vêtements et aux tissus qui comportent également de nombreux détails. Et autant dire que depuis la pandémie mondiale et l’obligation de couvrir la moitié de son visage d’un masque, les œuvres de l’artiste prennent une toute autre dimension.
Images : © Volker Hermes

Stunning Fluid Installation by Anne Vieux C’est au sud de Bentonville, dans l’Arkansas que l’artiste contemporaine New Yorkaise Anne Vieux a réalisé, fin 2020, une installation murale holographique. Commissionnée par l’organisation artistique locale Oz Art et organisée par l’agence créative Justkids, l’œuvre picturale donne un visage futuriste et hyperfluide au bâtiment du cinéma Skylight, en jouant avec la perception et les limites de l’espace. Avec des couleurs ondulantes qui alternent entre des tons chaud et froid, Anne Vieux propose aussi la métaphore d’une société mouvante et ouverte, dans laquelle les frontières et limites s’effacent pour permettre l’unité.
Images : © Justkids.art

Dreamy Pictures of Flowers C’est durant le confinement, privée des sujets humains avec lesquels elle préfère travailler, que Barbara Cole a commencé à s’intéresser aux végétaux qui l’entouraient, et plus particulièrement aux fleurs. Dans son dernier projet « Apparences », la photographe établie à Toronto, au Canada, sublime encore la beauté des fleurs qu’elle a immortalisées en leur donnant un mouvement flou. À travers sa technique et son travail en post-production, l’artiste est ainsi parvenue à infuser ses images de l’esthétique classique de la peinture à l’huile.
Images : © Barbara Cole

Food Inspired by Mario’s World C’est au sein du Super Nintendo World, une zone dédiée à l’univers de Mario dans le parc Universal d’Osaka, au Japon qu’est situé le Kinopio’s Cafe (ou Café Toad en français). Au menu de ce restaurant-snack, un ensemble de plats tout droits sortis du monde du plombier moustachu : des calzones aux nouilles japonaises renfermées dans des carapaces vertes, un Bloc Tiramisu qui présente de fortes ressemblances avec les blocs mystère du jeu, le Mario Bacon Cheeseburger, ou encore une Pizza Bowl en forme de Toad (avec des champignons à l’intérieur, évidemment). L’endroit parfait pour reprendre des forces, entre le château de Peach et le Royaume Champignon.
L’ouverture du Super Nintendo World était prévue au début de ce mois.
Images : © Super Nintendo World

Ocean Inspired Illustrations Basé à Hawaii, l’artiste et designer de surf Eduardo Bolioli crée des illustrations impressionnantes. On y voit par exemple des figures de femmes aux seins nus nageant sous l’eau avec des palmes, au milieu de raies. Les personnages, humains ou animaux, sont représentés devant des fonds colorés, composés d’éléments naturels tels que des feuilles ou des ananas. L’artiste, né à Montevideo, en Uruguay, a remporté plusieurs prix pour son art, notamment le prix Aloha de la société HACER, le prix Stimulus de la Biennale de Mosca en Uruguay (1995) et le prix Premiere aux Embiez, en France, entre autres. Au fil des ans, il a organisé des expositions individuelles et collectives dans le monde entier et ses peintures font partie de collections privées.
Pour en découvrir plus, rendez-vous sur son site internet ou son compte Instagram.

Autistic Artist Explains Her Everyday Life in a Comic Illustratrice à Strasbourg, Salina a récemment été diagnostiquée autiste. Pendant des années, la jeune femme ignorait qu’elle vivait avec ce trouble neuro-développemental, si ce n’est qu’elle était plus stressé que la moyenne dans certaines situations. Pour que les personnes autistes soient mieux comprises, l’artiste a décidé de dessiner une BD, afin d’expliquer au grand public les manifestations de l’autisme sur le quotidien.
Salina est présente sur Instagram et Etsy.

Many People and Colors : a Traditional Game in India Au lendemain de Holi, une fête hindoue haute en couleurs qui se déroule dans tout le pays, Huranga prend le relai. C’est au temple Dauji, près de la ville de Mathura en Inde que le photographe londonien Matt Porteous a assisté à ce jeu traditionnel qui réunit un village entier, et oppose les hommes aux femmes. Les hommes déverser des seaux de couleur liquide sur les vêtements des femmes, tandis que celles-ci doivent déshabiller les hommes. L’occasion pour le photographe de capturer la foule en mouvement et les couleurs suspendues dans l’air.
Images : © Matt Porteous

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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 ? ». ...

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« 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: La semaine dernière
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: 3 semaines plus tôt
Lutte des casses ! La typographie comme outil de lutte contemporaine.
(ceci est un texte que j’ai écrit pour Typologie, le nuancier de la typo sorti en 2020 – merci encore à Pierre-Yann Lallaizon)
En France, en 2021, le design est politique, ça n’est plus à prouver. Dans les manifestations, on retrouve depuis des années les écrits graphiques de Vincent Perrottet avec « Travaille d’abord, tu t’amuseras ensuite ! ». Il y a aussi Pierre Di Sciullo qui dessine avec ses propres caractères des mots forts : « Rien d’autre que le commerce » ou encore « Procrastination générale ! » pour inviter les ...

Posté le: Le mois dernier
2021 : comment je m’organise ? Voilà quelques semaines que je voulais répondre à l’écrit à cette question que l’on me pose régulièrement : « Tu sembles faire plein de choses… mais comment tu t’organises ? ». On m’imagine même parfois avec des gens qui travaillent pour moi, qui s’occupent de mes affaires, tout ça tout ça. Ha-ha !
À la fin de cet article, n’hésitez pas à me dire aussi quelle est votre organisation optimale, ou vos idées farfelues d’organisation, ça peut aider certaines personnes !
Mes journées font 24 heures, je dors suffisamment pour être en forme et le reste du temps… je m’organise ...

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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/

Lutte des casses ! La typographie comme outil de lutte contemporaine.
(ceci est un texte que j’ai écrit pour Typologie, le nuancier de la typo sorti en 2020 – merci encore à Pierre-Yann Lallaizon)
En France, en 2021, le design est politique, ça n’est plus à prouver. Dans les manifestations, on retrouve depuis des années les écrits graphiques de Vincent Perrottet avec « Travaille d’abord, tu t’amuseras ensuite ! ». Il y a aussi Pierre Di Sciullo qui dessine avec ses propres caractères des mots forts : « Rien d’autre que le commerce » ou encore « Procrastination générale ! » pour inviter les citoyens à agir et réagir. Enfin, le récent projet « Les mots de trop » utilise le AW Conqueror de Jean-François Porchez et le Franklin Gothic sur ses affiches pour dénoncer les nombreuses discriminations en école d’art et de design. La liste des projets d’engagement par le design est longue et les designers s’arment de plus en plus des diverses formes du graphisme, territoire sur lequel la typographie appuie le feu de leurs propos.
Le reste est une question d’usage du design graphique : à quoi sert-il ? à qui sert-il ? Au travers d’un fil de pensée, voici un texte qui cherche à aborder l’usage de la typographie dans les luttes contemporaines.
Le dessin des mots pour le débat public
En 1793, Olympes de Gouges était guillotinée pour avoir placardé ses idéaux sous forme d’affiches typographiées dans les rues de Paris. En mai 1968, à Paris, l’atelier populaire des Beaux-Arts imprime en caractères rouges un immense « Les frontières on s’en fout ! » ou encore « Camarades ouvriers ! ». À ce titre, on pourrait aussi évoquer les affiches du collectif Grapus, avec ce rapport à la lettre peinte à la main, « La chienlit, c’est lui », « Retour à la normale », qu’on voit exister à la fois grâce aux techniques d’impression sérigraphique que par une volonté d’humaniser le graphisme, de briser la barrière typographique entre le lecteur et le créateur manifestant. Une vingtaine d’années plus tard, en 1987, Barbara Kruger, artiste conceptuelle américaine, utilise du Futura, simple, fort et radical et s’appuie ainsi sur les codes de la grande consommation pour en dénoncer les absurdités et les injonctions de tout un système. N’oublions pas non plus le manifeste publié dans Emigre en 1999. Intitulé “First Thing First” et rédigé Ken Garland, ce manifeste abordait l’importance de replacer la responsabilité du designer dans la société. Il terminait sur « Au fond, le design est avant au sujet de la démocratie […] et la résistance démocratique est plus que jamais vitale ».
Ces quelques exemples emblématiques rappellent que l’utilisation de la typographie comme outil de militantisme permet toujours de rendre indissociable la forme du mot de celle de la pensée, et nous rapproche ainsi du débat public.
Aujourd’hui.
L’utilisation de la typographie dans notre paysage contemporain persiste et signe comme outil de militantisme, de revendication et ce, dans un monde submergé de symboles et d’images publicitaires.
Dans la nuit 30 août 2019, dans les rues des villes de France, un nouveau format voit le jour suite à l’appel de Marguerite Stern, autrice et ancienne membre des Femen. Elle lance le projet de collages féminicides, dont l’objectif est de nommer et rendre hommage aux femmes mortes des mains de leurs compagnons. S’en suit une organisation graphique, un design typographique singulier où chaque lettre noire prend la taille d’une page blanche A4. Le contraste est là, le mouvement se répand, ces lettres deviennent symboles de lutte et de revendication.
Des mots qui semblent suffire à eux-même puisqu’ils ont le support et la forme adéquate qu’est la typographie, source d’histoire et de message.
Encore plus récemment, le mouvement politique Black Lives Matter né en 2013 aux États-Unis a pris une nouvelle ampleur au début de l’année 2020 et en a profité pour s’exprimer typographiquement d’une nouvelle manière : dans la rue, pour être vu du ciel. En effet, la maire de Washington a fait peindre le slogan “Black Lives Matter” en lettres jaunes massives dans une rue menant à la Maison Blanche en hommage aux victimes des violences policières. Un message puissant qui puise sa force dans la taille et la couleur de ses lettres, mais aussi dans son rapport à l’espace urbain : on lit les lettres d’en haut, mais on les vit d’en bas. On marche dessus, on y manifeste, on échange sur et à propos d’elles. Elles deviennent comme une extension physique de la rue, criante et expressive. Ces lettres dessinées pour être lues du ciel sont aussi une forme de message à destination des bureaux perchés dans les plus hautes tours, des caméras de surveillance ou encore des drones de surveillance. C’est ce dessin qui donnera ensuite lieu au caractère intitulé Black Lives Matter Font, dessiné par des militants et mis à disposition gratuitement et librement à tous les internautes.
Le numérique, support incontournable des luttes contemporaines
En effet, le numérique, un des supports de lecture les plus utilisés aujourd’hui n’est pas en reste. La typographie se réinvente et milite pour être accessible, gratuite et ouverte avec notamment toutes les fonderies open source dont Velvetyne est le fleuron français. Créée par Frank Adebiaye, cette fonderie n’est pas que libre dans les formats des fichiers qu’elle distribue mais aussi dans sa façon de concevoir ses caractères, le dessin des formes des lettres et l’audace des auteurs dans leurs engagements. Engagements que l’on a pu retrouver durant les manifestations pendant le mouvement contre la réforme des retraites, en décembre 2019 avec le site Artengreve.com ou encore la mise hors service de leur site officiel, et ce, pendant plusieurs semaines pour manifester leur mécontentement / l’extension de la grève.
Extension de la lutte : du numérique vers l’écologie
D’autres designers graphiques et typographes militent et œuvrent pour une lecture plus accessible et inclusive en réalisant des fontes pour les dyslexiques comme le Andika, l’open-dyslexic ou encore le Sarakanda. D’autres encore cherchent une façon de faire de la typographie qui demande moins d’encre lorsqu’elle est imprimée. C’est le cas du Ryman Eco dessiné par Dan Rhatigan de l’agence Grey London dont le corps de chaque caractère est constitué de lignes fines harmonieusement espacées entre-elles.
D’autres designers qui, eux aussi, militent pour préserver l’environnement et la biodiversité font preuve d’initiative afin de réduire l’impact carbone de la typographie sur Internet. En effet, depuis l’invention de la règle @font-face permettant d’utiliser n’importe quelle police d’écriture sur n’importe quel site Internet, l’usage s’est répandu progressivement pour devenir un incontournable. Aujourd’hui, certains sites Internet grand public affichent jusqu’à une dizaine de polices d’écriture différentes. Cela consomme des ressources puisqu’il faut charger depuis un serveur situé à l’autre bout de la planète, chaque fichier de police.
Pour remédier à cela, l’usage environnemental et militant fait que certains designers créent le graphisme de leur site en utilisant uniquement les typographies situées en local sur l’ordinateur des internautes, à savoir : l’Arial, le Times New Roman, le Georgia, le Verdana, etc. Un retour aux fondamentaux ? Un appauvrissement visuel ? Une autre façon de pratiquer un usage typographique éco-responsable ?
Questions
Et si demain vous deviez créer un site pour œuvrer à la préservation de l’environnement, utiliseriez-vous plutôt une typographie déjà en local sur la machine de votre utilisateur ? Ou alors serait-elle dessinée par un artisan typographe français qui place son travail en open-source ? Quelle police d’écriture serait à même de servir un propos en faveur des luttes féministes ? Comment pourrions-nous créer une police d’écriture inclusive plaçant des points médians au bon endroit sur les adjectifs et les noms et faire que chacun·e deviennent les ambassadeur·rice·s d’une égalité entre les femmes et les hommes ? Enfin, comment la typographie contemporaine, et les typographes qui s’y attellent, peuvent œuvrer à offrir des signes qui donnent du sens aux mots de celles et ceux qui ont un besoin vital de faire entendre leur voix ? La bonne nouvelle, c’est qu’il y a encore énormément à faire… et la nouvelle encore plus bonne c’est que de nombreux designers deviennent sensibles au sujet et s’y attèlent !

2021 : comment je m’organise ? Voilà quelques semaines que je voulais répondre à l’écrit à cette question que l’on me pose régulièrement : « Tu sembles faire plein de choses… mais comment tu t’organises ? ». On m’imagine même parfois avec des gens qui travaillent pour moi, qui s’occupent de mes affaires, tout ça tout ça. Ha-ha !
À la fin de cet article, n’hésitez pas à me dire aussi quelle est votre organisation optimale, ou vos idées farfelues d’organisation, ça peut aider certaines personnes !
Mes journées font 24 heures, je dors suffisamment pour être en forme et le reste du temps… je m’organise pour d’une part « travailler » (je reviendrai sur ce terme plus tard) et d’autre part organiser le quotidien et le temps long pour me permettre ensuite de continuer de… travailler vivre.
Travailler ?
Quand je vous parle de travail, je parle de mon métier : designer. Mais ça n’est pas un métier pour moi, c’est bien plus que ça. C’est une façon d’agir et d’être à mon environnement, une façon de comprendre, de transmettre, de créer, d’agir, d’interagir… Bref, c’est un peu tout. Pour moi, je suis designer aussi dans mes lectures, dans mes apprentissages autour de la résilience, de l’autonomie, dans mes discussions, dans ma façon de penser mon domicile et mes actions en général… tout ça, je le regroupe sous l’étiquette de « designer » faute d’avoir un autre mot pour mieux parler de ça.
Des fois, je pense aux artisans, en constatant que mon métier n’a rien à voir avec de la production de masse, industrielle et globalisante. Je pense aux artisans aussi car chacun de mes projets est réfléchi et conçu sur-mesure, avec – entre-autre – un travail de recherche en amont. Mais je ne le volerai pas ce nom de métier comme le marketing a piqué le mot « design » pour en faire le sien.
Alors, même si le design possède aujourd’hui une image détournée et obsolète (oui, il paraît que n’importe qui peut être designer, que c’est un métier de mode, un métier à la solde du capitalisme, un métier parfois critiqué disant que chaque action d’un designer revient à détruire la planète, etc.), j’aspire toujours à réhabiliter ce mot à ma façon (voir ma conférence sur le sujet). Et à mes yeux, être designer, c’est difficile, c’est beaucoup d’efforts, ça n’est pas un passe-temps, ça n’est pas détruire le monde, ça n’est pas faire que « penser / parler » et ne rien faire d’autre, ça n’est pas détruire l’environnement en connaissance de cause, etc.
Bref, le travail n’est pas une peine pour moi car depuis longtemps je l’ai dissocié de « gagner de l’argent » et je l’ai aussi dissocié de « faire des choses pour des clients ». Mon travail c’est ça mais c’est aussi quand je me forme à de nouveaux apprentissages (le bois, la permaculture, l’apiculture, la langue des signes, etc.), c’est aussi quand je diminue mes revenus volontairement, c’est quand j’essaye de transmettre mes idées et mes idéaux (certains parleront d’éthique) aux étudiants et aux autres en général. Je fais du design quand on me demande de prendre la parole devant des étudiants, quand je fabrique des choses en bois, des affiches, quand je fais de la photo, quand je me bricole un disque dur de survie, bref. Vous avez compris je crois 🙂
Le temps ?
Aucune journée ne se ressemble… Des fois, je passe la journée à mon bureau à écrire, dessiner des interfaces, créer des affiches, des identités visuelles, préparer des cours, etc. Des fois, je n’ai pas une seconde pour être assis à mon bureau. Je n’ai pas de « morning routine » ou de « daily routine ». Et j’ai beau lire tous les articles Medium qui me disent comment bien m’organiser, je trouve toujours cela trop élaboré, trop sophistiqué, trop ritualisé… Si j’appliquais tout cela, (et j’ai essayé parfois), ça me ferait perdre du temps.
En gros, je prends ma liste de tâches dans l’ordre et je les fais. C’est tout.
Cependant, j’ai lu des ouvrages comme GTD (Getting Things Done) avec quelques principes que j’ai retenu :
Si ça demande moins de 5 minutes : je le fais maintenant.Les gros projets doivent être découpés en petites tâches pour être réalisés.Je crée trois listes : choses à faire, choses en cours, choses terminées.
Mais bon, tout ceci semble peut-être évident ? Je fonctionne comme ça depuis plus de 10 ans et c’est ce qui est de plus léger pour moi.
Quels outils pour organiser mon temps ?
Là aussi c’est simple, j’ai deux outils : un calendrier et l’outil en ligne Trello. Mon calendrier me sert à décharger de ma mémoire les choses à long terme : un voyage en train, une conférence à donner, une interview à répondre, un appel à faire, un cours à donner, une sortie que j’ai prévue de faire, etc.
Pour Trello, c’est un peu plus travaillé. En gros, comme je vous le disais plus haut, j’ai trois colonnes principales :
Les tâches à faire (toutes les tâches… pas seulement celles de la journée)Les tâches en cours (là par exemple, écrire cet article)Les tâches terminées
Et j’avance comme ça. Chaque soir, je regarde la liste des choses accomplies dans la colonne « tâches terminées » pour voir un peu comment j’ai avancé et je vide cette liste. J’en profite aussi pour remettre dans le bon ordre les tâches que j’envisage de faire le lendemain.
J’ai d’autres colonnes annexes comme :
Les formations que je vais faireLes objets / outils que je souhaite récupérer / acheter d’occasionLes choses que je vais fabriqueretc.
J’ai essayé des outils de chronomètre, j’ai essayé la méthode pomodoro et plein d’autres choses. En fait, une simple liste, ça me suffit.
Mes outils ?
Mes outils sont simples et ce sont les mêmes depuis des années. J’essaye malgré tout d’en enlever toujours pour désencombrer et tendre vers le moins. Aujourd’hui, j’arrive à avoir besoin seulement, pour travailler et m’organiser que de :
Mes outils tangibles :
Mon cerveau, mes mains, mes yeux, mon vécu…Un seul ordinateur (une Surface Pro d’occasion 16 GO de ram, processeur i7 et 500Go de disque dur, ça me suffit amplement)Un carnet et des crayons, feutres, etc.Un smartphone et un appareil photo
Mes outils intangibles (logiciels) :
Notepad ++ pour toutPhotoshop, Fontforge, Illustrator, inDesign pour le visuelFilezilla pour transférer Atom pour coderFirefox et un VPNNexusFont pour gérer mes typos sur Windows
Je n’ai pas et je ne veux pas :
De MacDe double écranDe Wacom Cintiq ou équivalentDe bureau électrique qui monte tout seulDe chaise ergonomiqueDe tablette iPad pro ou autreDe souris ergonomiqueDe casque audio type Marshall, Bose, Beats, etc.De clavier en plusDe support à ordi portableDe montre connectéeetc.
[EDIT pour les âmes sensibles : quand j’écris « je n’ai pas et je ne veux pas » c’est que peut-être que tous ces objets, je pourrais en avoir besoin (et encore…) mais au fond de moi je sais que je n’en veux pas car ça va me rendre malheureux de les posséder, ça va m’aliéner, ça va me coûter de l’argent et du temps. Et je sais que certains d’entre vous ont certains de ces objets, alors pour ceux-là je l’écris ici : je ne dis pas que si vous avez tout ça c’est « mal », vous avez ce qui vous plait. Pour ma part, ça me ralentirai. [/FIN]
Organiser les projets clients et les projets personnels
En 2010 j’avais décidé de me réserver une journée par semaine aux projets « personnels ». C’était le vendredi. Puis, j’ai très vite changé en inversant et ne faisant plus que des projets personnels et « à côté » des projets professionnels de temps en temps, sur mon « temps libre ».
Pour y arriver, j’ai essayé très fort de me dire que l’argent des projets professionnels me permet d’avoir de la liberté sur les projets personnels. Cela me permet donc de créer des projets personnels qui ne soient pas forcément « rentables », au contraire, ils sont quasiment tous gratuits, opensource, ouverts… Pour continuer sur cette organisation avec les projets professionnels, depuis plusieurs années je diminue volontairement mes revenus ce qui libère forcément du temps au profit des projets personnels.
Un autre point aussi dans mon organisation, c’est que je gère mes projets personnels comme des projets professionnels. Avec des délais, des engagements et le travail le plus qualitatif que je puisse fournir.
La bataille du temps
L’autre jour, un ami designer me disait qu’il n’arrivait pas à faire passer son temps de projets personnels tant qu’il n’avait pas terminé ses projets clients. Et comme il avait toujours des projets clients… et bien il n’avançait jamais ses projets personnels !
J’ai eu le même problème par le passé et je l’ai résolu (en partie) en mettant en face à face mon « temps de vie » forcément limité ; face au temps de vie du client et de son projet. Qu’est-ce qui est plus important ? Qu’est-ce qui compte le plus ? Alors oui, bien évidemment, je vends une partie de mon temps de vie pour avoir de l’argent pour payer mon loyer mais le reste de mon temps de vie est à moi, il m’appartient et c’est pour me le rappeler que même quand je suis en plein projet professionnel, je prends le temps de lire, de faire du sport, de sortir prendre l’air, etc.
C’est une façon assez personnelle de me réapproprier mon temps, d’avancer aussi sur les projets personnels mais aussi de me maintenir en bonne santé mentale et physique pour justement continuer à vendre ce temps pour gagner de l’argent et pour payer mon loyer, etc.
Un autre point qui me libère du temps ce sont mes raisonnements éthiques. Je fais beaucoup de tri de cette manière. Quand j’estime qu’un projet va à l’encontre de mes valeurs, de mes engagements par ailleurs, de mes idéaux, je passe à autre chose. Cela me fait faire des concessions et m’oblige à adapter mon mode de vie à mon éthique et pas mon éthique à mon mode de vie. Toujours à cet ami je parlais de mon rapport à l’éthique comme d’une forge. Plus je lis, apprends, comprends et oriente mon éthique, plus je martèle ce qui me servira à trancher par la suite dans mes décisions.
Conclusion
À l’heure où j’écris ces dernières lignes, je reçois un message privé sur Twitter me demandant si j’ai des lectures à conseiller sur mon organisation. Ça tombe bien donc, je viens de terminer cet article ! Vous l’aurez compris en me lisant, ceci est avant tout un témoignage personnel car s’organiser, c’est pour moi très lié à mon quotidien, à ma façon de vivre et les deux se modèlent l’un l’autre. C’est lié aussi :
au choix de mes outilsau choix de ce qui ne m’encombre pasau choix de mes prioritésà mon organisation dans le temps long / temps courtet aux choix sur les micro-détails du quotidien.
Enfin, j’essaye de faire en sorte que mon organisation soit surtout quelque chose de minimaliste et de souple pour ne pas me rendre fou ou ne pas passer plus de temps à organiser mes tâches qu’à les faire. En somme : une liste d’actions à faire. Et faire ces actions, c’est le mieux que j’ai trouvé pour l’instant.

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HES-SO (Genève) La HES-SO Genève met au concours pour la Haute école d’art et de design – Genève le poste de Maître d’enseignement HES, Responsable du Pool numérique et de l’innovation pédagogique. Très engagée dans la vie culturelle de la cité, la HEAD – Genève est l’une des plus grandes écoles suisses d’art et de design et rayonne internationalement. Elle accueille plus de 700 étudiant(e)s de 40 pays différents dans ses formations Bachelor et Master en arts visuels, cinéma, design d’espace et architecture d’intérieur, communication visuelle, media et interaction design, design mode, bijou, montre et accessoires.
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Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

PASSER UNE OFFRE D’EMPLOI Pour passer une offre d’emploi, c’est très simple :
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Soit vous n’êtes pas abonné(e) et ne souhaitez pas vous abonner et dans ce cas il vous en coûtera 384 euros TTC (TVA 20 %) par annonce que vous réglez exclusivement sur notre plateforme sécurisée. Une facture vous parviendra une fois l’offre d’emploi publiée
Dans tous les cas, envoyez votre texte d’annonce format Word à emploi@design-fax.fr. Publication dans les 24h sans limitation de durée.

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

ATELIER CASANOVA (Paris) ATELIER CASANOVA recherche un(e) stagiaire Assistant(e) chef de projet pour une durée de 3 à 6 mois
Voir la fiche de poste détaillée
CV et lettre de motivation à envoyer à lfradier@ateliercasanova.com

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

ENSCI-LES ATELIERS (Paris) L’ENSCI recrute un(e) enseignant(e) Responsable de l’Atelier Textile pour le plateau “Tissage” rattaché(e) à la Responsable de la formation “Designer Textile” qui partagera la vision stratégique du design textile portée par l’ENSCI, en accord avec les orientations pédagogiques
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CDI à pourvoir idéalement à compter du 1er mars 2021

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

CEA (Grenoble) Le CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) recherche pour sa Direction de la Recherche Technologique un(e) Designer produit et services. La Direction de la Recherche Technologique du CEA a pour mission de développer des technologies pour les transitions numériques et écologiques, et d’en faciliter le transfert vers l’industrie, assurant un pont entre le monde scientifique et le monde économique. Elle est composée de 4500 chercheurs, basés historiquement à Grenoble et à Saclay, mais aussi aujourd’hui dans d’autres régions (Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, Hauts-de-France, Bretagne, Sud, Grand-Est, Nouvelle Aquitaine).
Par son approche systémique et pragmatique, le design joue un rôle déterminant dans ce processus de valorisation technologique.
La Direction Innovation (DINOV) est chargée d’accompagner les laboratoires du CEA dans leur processus d’innovation, pour le compte de start-up, de partenaires industriels ou institutionnels de CEA Tech. L’équipe DINOV, composée d’une vingtaine de personnes, rassemble des profils variés : chefs de projet innovation, mécatroniciens, designers, fabmanager, expert usage, coach facilitateur, etc. Nous travaillons depuis janvier 2020 au sein du bâtiment Y.SPOT Labs, un bâtiment de 3000 m² dédié à l’innovation collaborative, comprenant un atelier de 400m², un atelier XR, un espace showroom, ainsi que de nombreux espaces dédiés au travail collaboratif. Nous travaillons en interaction permanente avec une équipe Y.SPOT basée à Toulouse, au sein du Totem, un bâtiment démonstrateur des technologies pour la transition énergétique.
Les designers du CEA interviennent dans des champs variés de la discipline (produit, interface, interaction, service), en adoptant des postures et méthodologies adaptées à des typologies de projets variées : Démonstrateurs Technologiques, Prototypes de laboratoire, Accompagnement stratégique, Prospective. Ils abordent le design dans ses dimensions stratégiques et pratiques, avec une attention permanente pour l’expérience d’utilisation dans la formalisation des solutions, que ce soit pour un visiteur, un chercheur, un entrepreneur, un industriel ou un utilisateur final. Pratiquer le design au sein d’un centre de recherche technologique nécessite aussi d’être en capacité d’appréhender toute la complexité des technologies, afin de faire des propositions créatives sensées et raisonnables, en cohérence avec les attentes de la société et les grands enjeux modernes.
Nous recherchons un(e) designer :
Diplômé(e) Bac +5 d’une école de design : ENSCI-Les Ateliers, L’École de Design Nantes Atlantique, Strate, HEAD, ECAL, ESAD Saint-Étienne
Autonome dans la conduite de projet de design (expérience professionnelle en design d’au moins 3 ans)
Background solide en design produit, pratique des méthologies de conception UX
Stratège et opérationnel
Aisance relationnelle (travail en équipe, dialogue avec clients et sous-traitants, animation et facilitation)
Culture du design, attrait pour les sciences et technologies, une formation initiale en sciences est un plus
Opérationnel(le) sur Solidworks et sur la suite Adobe CC, la maîtrise d’outils de conception UI est un plus
Aisance en conception mécanique, maquettage et prototypage rapide
Exigence dans la production graphique et plastique
CDD 18 mois sur Grenoble à compter de mai 2021. Merci d’envoyer CV + Book à bruno.truong@cea.fr.

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

LES SISMO (Paris) LES SISMO recrute un(e) Designer de service senior. Les Sismo est un studio de design indépendant basé à Paris, co-fondé en 1997 par Antoine Fenoglio et Frédéric Lecourt. Aujourd’hui Les Sismo, c’est une vingtaine de designers qui articulent l’ensemble des compétences nécessaires à la création, la stratégie, la réalisation de projets humanistes, autour du “design with care”, pour des organisations privées ou publiques.
Profil et missions :
Expérience et compétences générales
5+ années d’expérience
Gestion de projets d’innovation en équipes transdisciplinaires
Capacité à gérer plusieurs projets en parallèle
Sens de la relation client et compréhension des enjeux business
Enthousiasme et agilité
Compétences métier
Une majeure métier : design de service ou design digital ou design stratégique
Design thinking et design management
Techniques d’observation ethnographiques, scénarios d’usages
Réalisation d’architectures de l’information / cas d’usage / parcours utilisateurs / cartes d’expérience / persona
Conception et animation d’ateliers (workshops, design thinking, intelligence collective)
Capacité à formaliser clairement
PoC
Quelques exemples de sujets traités
Re-penser le guichet d’accueil et en imaginer ses nouveaux usages pour la RATP
Concevoir un outil pour aider les enseignants à mieux intégrer les élèves en situation de handicap dans leur classe
Accompagner des équipes internes pour imaginer des concepts innovants pour un grand nom de l’automobile
Imaginer l’aéroport de demain
Les plus
Une double formation design + école d’ingénieurs / institut d’études politiques / école de commerce, etc.
Maîtrise de l’anglais opérationnel
CDI à pourvoir immédiatement. Rémunération selon profil. Envoyer CV + book à hugo.mazaud@sismodesign.com.

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

ÉCOLE DE DESIGN NANTES ATLANTIQUE (Nantes) L’ÉCOLE DE DESIGN NANTES ATLANTIQUE recherche son(sa) Directeur(trice) du Média Design Lab.
Voir la définition de poste détaillée
Prise de fonction dans les meilleurs délais, poste basé à Nantes
Déplacements ponctuels à prévoir en France et à l’étranger
Contrat à durée indéterminée, statut cadre au forfait jour (213 jours annuels)
CV et lettre de motivation à transmettre par mail à c.maire@lecolededesign.com pour le 24 février 2021

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

MARKET VALUE (Paris) MARKET VALUE est une agence spécialisée dans le design de lieux, de marques et d’expériences (retail, hospitality, santé et bureaux). Les 35 talents de l’agence unissent leurs expertises et font équipe avec les clients à chaque étape d’un projet : stratégie & innovation, branding, design & architecture, technique & déploiement. Ils sont comme ça chez Market ! Ils ont le goût des gens et des nouveaux défis, l’empathie comme 6e sens et l’exigence chevillée au corps.
Descriptif du poste :
Vous adorez le design et phosphorer en équipe
Vous serez rattaché(e) à l’équipe de création
Vous travaillerez sur la création de concepts graphique retail et branding pour des secteurs variés : restauration, grande distribution, distribution spécialisée, centres commerciaux où le design graphique et architectural sont travaillés en harmonie et cohérence
Votre rôle :
Créer et développer le territoire graphique sur tous les supports : branding, habillage de l’espace, signalétique
Illustrer des concepts de marque et créer des ambiances de lieux avec des moodboards
Travailler des présentations percutantes pour valoriser nos projets et leur positionnement
Profil recherché :
Vous avez plus de 3 ans d’expérience en direction artistique et communication visuelle en agence
Vous êtes autonome, curieux(se), créatif(ve), un œil vif, vous aimez le travail en équipe et l’échange
Vous êtes passionné(e) par le branding et intéressé(e) par l’architecture commerciale
Vous maîtrisez la Suite Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.)
Merci d’envoyer votre CV et BOOK à ac.voillot@marketvalue.fr et martin.lyonnet@marketvalue.fr.

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

NiCE (Paris) Pour accompagner la croissance de son bureau de Paris, NiCE recherche des talents pour son pôle graphisme.
Nous sommes une agence de création internationale spécialisée en stratégie et identité de marque, en retail et design produit. Implantée à Paris, New-York, Singapour et Tokyo. Notre vision est le fruit de vingt-cinq années d’expérience aussi bien dans la grande distribution pour de grandes marques que dans les domaines du luxe et de la beauté.
Vous êtes passionné(e) de branding et de ses applications 360°
Vous êtes un(e) bon(ne) exécutant(e), vous êtes très organisé(e) et avez un fort sens du design et de l’esthétique
Vous maîtrisez l’anglais et avez envie de rejoindre une jeune équipe de talents internationaux à laquelle vous pourrez vous adapter rapidement
Vous êtes un(e) Graphiste à la recherche d’un stage rémunéré ou d’une première expérience en agence pour une collaboration de 6 à 8 mois
Rémunération selon profil
Poste pouvant évoluer en CDD ou mission
Merci d’envoyer vos CV et books à karine.halpern@niceltd.com en précisant l’objet.

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

JOUIN MANKU (Paris) JOUIN MANKU recherche un(e) Architecte d’intérieur / Chef de Projet ayant au minimum 6 a 7 ans d’expérience. Le(la) candidat(e) doit avoir connaissance de toutes les phases d’un projet (du concept au chantier) et la capacité de gérer en autonomie le développement d’un projet avec de préférence une bonne expérience des projets à l’étranger et des projets résidentiels.
Mission :
Vous participerez à la conception et le suivi de réalisation de projets d’Architecture Intérieure dans le domaine de l’hôtellerie ou de la restauration de luxe ou résidentiel haute de gamme
Vous aurez en charge le management d’une équipe
Compétences requises :
Expérience concrète des différentes phases d’un projet pour des clients haut de gamme (hôtels, restaurants, particuliers, boutiques de luxe)
Bonne compréhension et assimilation du langage de l’agence
Très bonne maîtrise des logiciels AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, Rhino 3D (très apprécié)
Maîtrise de l’anglais impérative
Poste :
Freelance, CDD ou CDI
Lieu de travail sur Paris (11e)
Salaire selon expérience
Début de mission immédiat
Durée de la mission 6 mois a minima
Merci de bien vouloir envoyer votre candidature et vos disponibilités par mail à agence@jouinmanku.com en indiquant la référence “2021 Architecte d’Intérieur chef de projet 7 ans expérience” (CV + lettre de motivation + book en format PDF montrant des dessins, détails, rendus images 3D, plans et 3 à 5 exemples de réalisations).

Les offres d’emploi – Design fax

HES-SO (Genève) La HES-SO Genève met au concours pour la Haute école d’art et de design – Genève le poste de Maître d’enseignement HES, Responsable du Pool numérique et de l’innovation pédagogique. Très engagée dans la vie culturelle de la cité, la HEAD – Genève est l’une des plus grandes écoles suisses d’art et de design et rayonne internationalement. Elle accueille plus de 700 étudiant(e)s de 40 pays différents dans ses formations Bachelor et Master en arts visuels, cinéma, design d’espace et architecture d’intérieur, communication visuelle, media et interaction design, design mode, bijou, montre et accessoires.
En plus de ces différentes filières pédagogiques, la HEAD s’organise autour de différents “Pools” transversaux : Photographie, Audiovisuel, Matériaux & Prototypage, Impression et Édition. Les Pools rassemblent les compétences et techniques spécifiques à ces domaines et proposent des enseignements transversaux aux formats multiples au sein des Départements et du cursus de chaque étudiant(e)s – cours spécialisés, option libre, semaine de tous les possibles, cours de documentation, tutoriels, etc.). Ils contribuent au développement de partenariats avec des institutions ou entreprises et à la réalisation de mandats. Enfin, ils répondent à des demandes internes en provenance des différents services de la HEAD (Communication, Développement culturel, montage d’exposition, projets de recherche, etc.).
Taux d’activité : 60 % – 80 %
Éléments principaux de la mission :
Le Pool numérique, actuellement en préfiguration et amené à être ouvert à la rentrée 2021–2022, reprendra les objectifs génériques des Pools décrits ci-dessus. Plus spécifiquement, il s’agira de proposer et de coordonner une offre d’enseignement transversale aux niveaux Bachelor et Master (enjeux esthétiques, techniques, économiques et sociaux des technologies numériques), d’accompagner les projets des étudiant(e)s et de coordonner la productions d’artefacts numériques à l’interne (sites web événementiels, dispositifs interactifs, deep learning, programmation, VR & AR, expositions en ligne, etc.) mais aussi avec des partenaires extérieurs
En tant que responsable du Pool numérique, vous encadrez une équipe composée d’environ 5 personnes, dont deux technicien.ne.s spécialisé(e)s dans le support technique, et un artiste-designer. Vous assumez une veille scientifique et technologique prospective autour des enjeux numériques, et encouragez le développement des compétences numériques auprès du personnel et des étudiant(e)s HEAD
Avec l’appui d’un(e) assistant(e) à recruter, vous apportez une expertise spécifique au sein de l’HEAD relative à l’innovation pédagogique et à l’e-learning : identification de bonnes pratiques, création de scenarios pédagogiques, mise en place de projets pilotes, expos et diffusions de projets artistiques en ligne, accompagnement du personnel
Vous collaborez également avec les services communs de la HES-SO Genève (Bureau de la Stratégie numérique et Direction des Systèmes d’information) dans divers projets et comités dédiés au numérique. Vous tissez des liens avec des partenaires régionaux et internationaux
Profil :
Formation HES ou universitaire de niveau Master ou expérience de recherche-création dans le champ des arts et du design numérique
Expérience avérée d’au moins cinq ans dans le domaine des arts visuels et/ou du design en lien avec les technologies numériques
Personnalité inventive, ambitieuse et dynamique
Large connaissance des dispositifs numériques en lien avec l’enseignement (e-learning notamment)
Expérience de la gestion de projets et de la direction d’équipes
Aptitudes relationnelles à accompagner le changement
Bonnes compétences linguistiques (français et anglais requis)
Si ce défi vous motive, veuillez adresser vos dossiers complets, sous forme électronique, à l’attention de Jean-Pierre Greff, Directeur, à rh.head@hesge.ch. Renseignements complémentaires : Aleksandra Antosik au 022 388 58 22. Entrée en fonction dès que possible, le 01 septembre 2021 au plus tard. Délai de candidature le 12 mars 2021. La HES-SO/HEAD Genève adopte une politique de recrutement en faveur de l’égalité des chances.