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Category Archives: For Fun
Digital vs. Analog Design – Støckel quests the limits of Representation
It’s difficult to teach young architects how to make objects (and surrounding spaces) relate to one-another in an intentional way. Intentionality requires the mastery of abstract concepts like order, harmony, contrast, proportion, scale and repetition.. not to mention enviable craft … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, Artists, History, PaperCraft, Physible, Reviews, SketchUp, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Model Making, Analog vs. Digital Design Methods, Architecture Design Studio, D-school, Danish Artist Tommy Støckel, Design Intentionality, Design Pedagogy, Design Theory, Digital vs. Analog, Intenionality vs. Expressiveness, paper art, papercraft, Rhino, Sketchup, Teaching Architectural Design, The Design Studio
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Foldify – 3D Paper Art made on your iPad
Foldify is a simple, easy-to-use app for creating papercraft art on your iPad. The concept is pretty basic: use the iPad to create digital papercraft art that can be broadly customized with colors, facial features, designs and more, and then … Continue reading
STAPLES – Introduces 3D Printing Service in Europe
STAPLES, the office superstore, has been doing some serious shape-shifting in response to the global economic chaos. It recently laid off hundreds of workers in Europe, and closed under performing stores in the U.S.. STAPLES is also leaning out to … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, Architecture, Digital Cutters, Digital Fabrication, Kirigami, Maker Movement, PaperCraft, Physible, Services, SketchUp, Technical Origami, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Printing with paper, Joseph Feldman, Mcor Iris, paper, Paper craft, paper vs. plastic in 3D Printing, Staples, Telsey Advisory Group
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Mysteries of Flexable Hexagons
First discovered in 1939 by a daydreaming student named Arthur H. Stone, flexagons have attracted the curiosity of great scientists for decades, including Stone’s famous friend and colleague Richard Feynman. Fig 1- Flexagons are origami-like puzzles that are simple to … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Action Origami, Dynamic Components, GeoPorn, History, Origami, PaperCraft, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged Arthur Stone, Flexagons, folding freaks, folding puzzles, hexaflexagons, mysteries of flexagons, Princeton Mathematics, richard Feynman, topologically fascinating, Vi Hart
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Archi’ Tech – Scaling Mars w/ Curiosity
Curiosity’s journey to Mars spanned eight months and 352 million miles (566 million kilometers). And after flawlessly executing an elaborate and untested landing routine, the rover gently touched down on the surface of the red planet. The landing routine was … Continue reading
The Cube – A Personal 3D Printer
If FisherPrice and 3D Printing had a love-child, it would be The Cube – an adorable 3D printer made by 3DSystems in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The Cube (so named for its 5.5” cubic print space) costs $1250, and makes … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, Digital Fabrication, For Fun, Maker Movement, Physible, Tools
Tagged 3D Models for Printing, 3D Printing, 3D Printing for kids, Co-branding, Crayola Crayons, Cubify, FormFonts 3D Models, Manufacturing On Demand, My Robot Nation, physibles, Serious Toys, The Cube
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FoldSchool – Corrugated Kid-Craft
It’s August and everyone is (or wants to be) on vacation, including yours truly. So how about kicking it fold’school? Here’s a post that’s easy to read, and gives you a lot of ideas for fun-times with the kids this … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, Artists, For Fun, Origami, PaperCraft, Reviews, Technical Origami
Tagged Cardboard projects for kids, Corrugated Cardboard, DIY furnture, DIY Playground equipment, FoldSchool, Grace Hawthorne, Masahiro Minami, Nicola Enrico Stäubli, Paper Punk, Playtime Papercraft, Projects for kids, Tuchino Kids
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Origami Trend’scends Interior Design
by Fred Abler I am a folding freak. I love Origami – its craft, spatial economy, and especially the conflict-of-perception between the complex finished form vs. its simple construction. And recently, Origami has become on-trend in Interior Design. Designers have … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, Digital Fabrication, Interior Design, Maker Movement, Minimalist Movement, Origami, PaperCraft, Theory & Concepts
Tagged 3D Model of Real Good Chair, action origami, conflict of perception, Etsy, Expensive Minimalism, Folding Freak, Folding Furniture, furniture-as-art, Interior Design Trends, Kada Stool, Kirigami, origami coin tubes, Origami Fabrication Techniques, Origami Lampshade, Origmai, origmai packaging, PennyRevolution, reusable coin tubes, simple living, Spacify, Studio Snowpuppe, technical origami packaging
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