This is an amazing video that shows the laborious process of creating something beautiful using non digital means including hand binding and a Vandercock letter press. Check it out, it will make your appreciate something as simple as a book.

Sensitive ears beware.

One Minute Soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.

Amazing where technology is going.
It seems that the items are scanned before it reaches the robot arms.
And the scanned images are then interpolated by the robot to know where each item is on the conveyor belt
so that it rotates the goods into the right position.
Good bye Lucy

1,000,000 fps video of bullets hitting steel

Amazing. Enjoy

These are some of the prints that I've been working on as part of a helvetica project where a design or pattern is created solely using helvetica fonts. Here they are.

I wish I knew what they were saying.

The robots prepare a ramen dish. Afterwards they give you a plate spinning, sword fighting show.

I believe these robots are 5 axis routers

This is a video of robots doing some amazingly quick things like dribbling balls to catching them. Then in slow mo.

A few days ago I decided to buy some pastels and I realized that instead of buying a box set I could create my own set. So I made a box to put the pastels in and here is the result. Oh and a couple of sketches.

Tie Sketch

Sunglass Sketch

So I am increasingly getting obsessed with wool ties and I have just discovered Alexander Olch.

I don't know much of his background except that he's in the movie business but he designs some of the nicest wool ties i've seen. He doesn't get lost with sophisticated patternings, instead his design is extremely simple but well designed. Take a look.

The AA|FAB Cluster at the Architectural Association organizes a competition to award new projects that employ digital design and fabrication in innovative ways. The parametric suspended ceiling system that we developed in the 5500 Studio and DigiFAB with Scott Marble as visiting critic impressed the jury which selected it for a First Prize. We will present the project in London in September at a conference during the London Design Festival.

Link to SuckerPUNCH contemporary design website

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

This project has been in the works for the past semester at the University of Houston Digital Fabrication Studio taught by Andrew Vrana (METALAB), Joe Meppeling (METALAB), and Scott Marble (Marble/Fairbanks) a visiting critic from New York. As a background our program was to redesign an existing space in the University of Houston College of Architecture. The program consists of several offices and a jury space in what used to be a shop space. Our studies for the space were broken up into several groups consisting of Eric Arnold (Lighting and Acoustics), Hugo Palma (Modularity), Preetal Shah (Patterning), Jonathan Aljets (Display Systems), and I worked on Parametric Design. We also had some amazing people collaborate with us outside of the school like, Rajaa Isaa from Mcneel and Associates who created Panelling tools for Rhino. We were introduced to Andrew Payne (Lift Architects). During the middle of the semester we took a trip to New York and visited the Stephen's Institute and Scott Marble's studio at Columbia University.

Since our studio's theme is Digital Fabrication the idea of parametric design was a big part of the studio and also my main focus. At the beginning of the semester I collaborated with Preetal's patterning and explored the use of Grasshopper and patterning. Soon I was given the task of creating an entire parametric model of the ceiling-scape. The general idea was to create a parametric ceiling-scape that adjusts to local conditions that worked on a hung ceiling grid. The ceiling consists of two types of panels that either droop down or bends upward designed by Fabian Vargas. With Grasshopper we were able to control every variable with a slider and all of the panels moved together parametrically and globally. Almost every aspect of the project is digitally fabricated and parametrically designed from the ceiling panels to the connections that hang from the ceiling grid.

Here are some pictures of the project.

If you want to check out more go to METALAB's blog.

How do I get to do research here?
Amazing video, if there's one thing that you have to do before you die, watch this video.

This has to be the coolest thing i've ever seen done with magnet

The world never ceases to amaze me.

Here is a great video on different processes for rapid prototyping. 

Prototyping Processes for Industrial Designers from karl frankowski on Vimeo.

So you thought the Samurai had useless skills. 

Well Check this out. 

"while the automobile industry’s financial woes dominates news headlines, the new GM and segway
collaboration P.U.M.A. (personal urban mobility and accessibility), aims to swing the conversations in
new directions. the new transportation concept was debuted at the new york auto show earlier today.
the vehicle is self-balancing much like the segway, but with seating for two in an enclosed seated cabin.
the P.U.M.A. is said to also reach speeds of close to 60 km/h, unlike the 20 km/h of the segway. the
vehicle will run using a lithium battery that provides 60 km of travel per charge. the size of the car is
roughly 20% of a standard american car and costs only a few cents to recharge. the vehicle won’t be
ready until next year, but could prove to be a radical shift in the automobile market and perhaps solve
some of the industry’s financial troubles."[designboom]

Vertigo Self-Heating Container
by Nicholas Bernal

A product for heating soups and drinks by the means of manual cranking. no outlet necessary. The form and idea are great, but according to some calculation from a yanko forum member, to get a liquid to 60c would take half an hour. [yanko]

These are probably some of the most amazing robots i've ever seen by Shigeo Hirose.
It's amazing to see how old some of the robots are and how advanced they are.
Watch the entire video, you won't be disappointed. Oh and the ending is the best part.
Enjoy.

Moshi
I like it when certain products have more than one function. I've been checking out the designs from Moshi for a while and they seem to pump out some rather nice products.
Here is their shield pad/screen protector/mousepad

check them out here

Cream That Egg.

One of the coolest Rube Goldberg machine I've seen to date.

Personal Sky Garage
is basically an elevator that delivers you and your car to your apartment floor.
Pretty simple concept. Hopefully you don't own more than one car or a huge hummer.
Check out the video rendering here