Time for a new section: Manufacturing Porn

The fact of the matter is, automated manufacturing is off the hook. I have always had a thing for the making of things, but a combination of advance in CNC technology and YouTube have taken this interest to the maximum. Check out a few of these videos. They are incredible.


How on earth this thing works is beyond me. Lathes- check, mills- check, what on earth this thing is- no idea. By the way the music Is God awful.


I love this thing. Just watch. Oh, and listen, I love the noises it makes.


This one goes out to anyone who has ever worked in foam. This is absolutely incredible. It is limited on the amount of forms it can do, but hey, it still blew my mind.

There are many more of these to come, so keep checking

And Mario was born

I am by no means into video games, but this t-shirt design by Kevin Tong is pretty funny. It covers the creation of Mario in a DaVinci-esque drawing style, even directly copying some of DaVinci's more famous sketches. Pretty funny

Cripy and Classy...chain oil?

I love bikes, they are what I am all about, but strange as it is, I literally never lubricate the chains on any of my bikes. This chain oil packaging is pretty nice though. I think if I had some I would be convinced to use it just to feel classy. Thanks Selectism.

Some more tilt-shift, this one is great

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Here is another tilt-shift video. This one may be the best one yet. Tilt shift is awesome, funny, and dare I say cute? Nope, I don't dare. Anyhow, watch this...it's pretty entertaining

Cutouts are pretty cool right?

Yuken Teruya cuts trees out of everyday paper objects, and they turn out pretty amazing.

Shameless Self Promotion: I'm now making narrow bars...if you're into that sort of thing

I now have a form set up to churn out some pretty narrow bars in addition to the wide ones.

This view shows the shape of the bars a little better. The Big bars are 24 inches wide with 16 degrees of sweep and 5 inch straight section in the middle. The Small bars are 16 wide, with 12 degrees of sweep and a 3 inch section in the middle

This made me laugh to myself: Hit It is pretty good

"Hit It" is a series of furniture by Johannes Hemann, Leslie Hildebrandt & Kai Linke that is supposed to make getting in a saloon style fight safe and fun. Now you don't have to think twice about beating your two-bit, no good, rotten enemy over the head with a chair

I don't feel good about posting something from Urban Outfitters, but this is good

The fact is, Rattan is pretty amazing...Therefore, a Rattan ottoman looking thing is going to be dope, and at $88 the price is right.
Check it out at Urban Outfitters

At first I thought these were hanging from the ceiling out in the middle of the room-

well they aren't, they're on the wall, but they are still pretty cool nonetheless.This wall mounted, corrugated storage system from Ampersand is pretty cool. Just mount them on the wall in different patterns...they automatically look pretty interesting. They could also ship flat which is pretty cool.Editors note: I just went to their website and realized that the guys behind this are currently seniors in ID at DAAP...ha

Kids love blocks, why do we stop loving blocks?

Jan Vormann, a dude from Berlin had a pretty good idea. Why not repair brick walls with colored bricks? Entitled Dispatchwork, this project rules, and looks great. I am not sure if he does it secretly or not, but if that's the case, it's even better.
Thanks Visualingual

Dieter Rams= yeah, smart dude

Dieter Rams is a German designer responsible for many of Braun's products in the second half of the twentieth century. Not only that, but Jonathon Ives, the head designer at Apple, says Rams is his major influence. When you look at Rams work you can definitely see that it inspired the esthetic of many of Apple's recent products. Click the picture to watch a video interview sort of thing with Rams.

Townes Van Zandt=amazing