HOW TO – Draw in “3D” (wood carvings)
Brazilian illustrator Daniel Santiago has a huge how-to like photo set on making 3D figures from a 2D drawing for a holiday campaign… [via] – Link – you can see the final results here.
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HOW TO – Make your own protein sculpture – Julian Voss-Andreae
Our editor at large David Pescovitz spotted these amazing sculptures and how-to… he writes – “Artist Julian Voss-Andreae sculpts magnificent representations of protein molecules out of wood, metal, and other materials. He’s also written a HOWTO on making your own protein sculptures from the datasets for three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules freely available from the […]
VSSTV – Very Slow Scan Television
Watching TV, one drop a time… – “Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham Radio amateurs. VSSTV uses broadcasts from this historic public domain television system and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system: […]
Tokyo Design Week 2006 report from Ping Mag
One of my favorite sites, Ping Mag, has an overview of a lot of neat art and design projects from Tokyo Design Week 2006 – I like this pewter table cast on the beach from Max Lamb – [via] – Link.
Plexiglass love
MAKE FLickr photo pool member farneawrites – “We’ve started experimenting with plexiglass and lights. Just scrape a drawing with a dimmer tip on one side of the plexiglass piece. Then make a little hole in the edge below, enough to insert a little light source as a led. Turning the light on, you will see […]
Duncan Wilson – Cup communiator
Artist Duncan Wilson updates the ole’ tin can phone… – Tug the cord to activate, squeeze to talk and hold to the mouth and ear. The design of the Cup Communicator is focused around a series of physical actions and gestures that create a poetic etiquette of use and a tactile intimacy between user and […]
Jessica Joslin’s sculptures
Jessica Joslin’s scupltures are made from bone, glass, brass fittings and found objects – it’s as if the Museum of Natural history and Home Depot decided to do a project together… [via] – Link. Picutred here: Ludwig, 24″x10″x15″, 2006 – Antique hardware, brass, beads, standoffs, bone, velvet, glove leather, steel, glass eyes.
