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“My interest in materials is like my interest in tools. What can be made with this? What can this do that other materials cannot? Materials with special properties are cool because they can open new possibilities in manufacturing, design, or even behavior. Additionally, they’re such an amazing cultural artifact. Where and how something gets made says so much about us as people, as a species, even. In a beautiful fabric, the simplest thing can be magic.”
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The Roland iModela iM-01 is an inexpensive, easy-to-use desktop device that mills wax, foam, balsa wood and plastic materials commonly used in craft and hobby projects.
Press Release (via ineedmydevice)
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SketchChair is an open-source software tool (funded through Kickstarter) that allows anyone to easily design and build their own digitally fabricated furniture.
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“Without ideas for applications, advanced materials just stagnate, with their potential left unrealized.
Tokyo Fiber ‘09 attempts to show ideas for the future of manufacturing, exhibiting new environmental membranes derived from artificial fibers in order to share them with the world at large.
The aim of this exhibition is to deliberately bring a broad sweep of creators and technology people into contact with attractive new artificial fibers, encouraging them to think of applications that make the benefits of the material visible. Through that approach.”
Meaning of SENSWARE by Kenya Hara - Exhibition Director
Tokyofiber.com/ | Design Museum Holon
More on DesignBoom too.
(originally via Spime)
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At Lift France 09, Mike Kuniavsky spoke about Changing Things: Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products.
