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Precision Machined Minimalism

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:46 AM PST

The Tech Force Pen is a solid housing for the HI-Tec C Ink Cartridge. Extremely popular among architects, artists, students, and designers, the cartridge is noteworthy for its C Ink composition, tip design, and fine line capability. The Tech Force Pen comes with a sleeve etched with metric and imperial ruler indications. The pen glides into the ruler sleeve where it is held in place by pneumatic pressure. When pulled from the ruler sleeve the escaping air makes a characteristic “pop” sound! Vid after the jump!

Designer: Josh Wilson

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(Precision Machined Minimalism was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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Blank Calls

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 02:59 AM PST

The CAE Blind Smartphone Concept is a new way of looking at smartphones. The purpose here is to have a device with digital accessibility to both the sighted and the impaired. The approach and UI is very realistic and something that can be integrated easily. Have a look and tell me your thoughts.

Designer: Léo Marzolf

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Women In Industrial Design Show 2014 in San Francisco

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 01:53 AM PST

Although I had worked with Ti Chang, the spark behind the DUET, I met her for the first time at the IDSA's Conference in Chicago (2013). One of our first conversations was about how there is little recognition and fame for Women in Design. Those at the conference will recollect her Individual Talk on the same subject and how passionate she was. I guess the fire thus ignited has resulted in the phenomenal Women In Industrial Design Show 2014, to be held in San Francisco.

Ti met one of her design idols Betony Vernon last year, and decided to look up other women in industrial designers of our time (preferably still living) and researched Wikipedia’s page List of Industrial Designers, sure enough there wasn’t a single woman industrial designer listed. Eileen (Gray) Eva (Ziesel) and Ray (Eames) were at least listed in their times; De Stilj, Art Deco, but there weren’t any listed in our Post Modernism contemporary era! Stumped by this revelation, she actually made her first Wikipedia entry right there and added Betony Vernon as well as Belle Kogan and Greta Von Nessen.

Ti is also the force behind the upcoming exhibit, which is the first one organized by the Women in Design Section of IDSA and is the first exhibit featuring women industrial designers scheduled to coincide with SFDesignWeek.

We hear about great industrial designers such as Jony Ives and Yves Behar, but stories of Isabelle Olsson (lead designer of Google glass) are extremely rare. In order to put things into perspective, Women In Industrial Design Show 2014 in San Francisco has been organized. Women designers can participate in two groups: Up + Coming (less than 5 years of experience which includes student work) and Professional (5 or more years of experience). The works exhibited will range from industrial design soft goods, to electronics, to home goods and conceptual work. You will see design projects that are in production and available on the market plus designs that are works in progress.

To participate and know more, head here.

Deadline for submission: March 10, 11:59 PST
Announcement of acceptance: April 2
Show date: San Francisco Design Week (between June 13-21) / Evening TBD

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(Women In Industrial Design Show 2014 in San Francisco was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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Keep Learning: solidThinking Evolve 2014 – Webinar

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 01:11 AM PST

Modeling and rendering has been taken to a new level thanks to the new solidThinking Evolve 2014. Key new features like New Construction Aids and Scene Management, Enhanced User Interface Options, Improved Modeling Tools and Live Linking to KeyShot, are an integral part of the system. To get more out of their offering, you can register for the free webinars that are being organized. In short, see how solidThinking Evolve can help you develop better products on PC or Mac!

We all know that solidThinking Evolve is 3D design software for model creation on either Mac or PC. So when you want to take your designs from drawing to rendering this software is your key. solidThinking Evolve 2014 promises better usability and efficiency that allows designers to develop forms faster than ever before.

The FREE Webinar is being held on March 11, 2014 9:00 AM Eastern

OR

March 11, 2014 2:00 PM Eastern


Rendered in Evolve.

Here is why you should TRY out the software:

  • Evolve captures an initial sketch, allowing exploration of styling alternatives and the visualization of products with high-quality renderings generated in real time.
  • It combines the modeling freedom of organic surfaces and the control of parametric solids with a unique ConstructionTreeTM history feature.
  • Evolve releases designers from the constraints of engineering-oriented CAD tools, while allowing the export of digital models required by others in the product development process.


Modeled and rendered in Evolve using KeyShot live linking.

Here is a brief overlook at the features:

  • New Construction Aids and Scene Management – Additional snaps added and improved existing snaps, new isolate mode and better management of hiding/unhiding objects, and added many new hotkeys to increase workflow efficiency.
  • Enhanced User Interface Options – Simplified workflow for importing and controlling background images, added option to enable/disable selection pre-highlighting, as well as a mode to quickly disable curve visualization to better evaluate models.
  • Improved Modeling Tools – Revised Replication tools for more intuitive workflow, increased surface control for the Round tool, and added robustness to Deformation tools.
  • Live Linking to KeyShot – Enables KeyShot scenes to be continuously updated directly from Evolve.

User Interface/Workflow

  • Snaps: New snap control for bounding box center, edges, edge end points, mid-points, and mid-points for Nurbs curves
  • New Snap hotkeys: Alt+1,2,3,4 toggles corresponding Grid Snaps, Alt activates Curve & Tangency snaps, Ctrl activates End & Mid point snaps
  • Hotkey List: Added a list of all the common hotkeys in the Help pulldown menu
  • Hide/Unhide: Allows the user to hide/unhide objects independently of objects hidden in construction history
  • Hide/Unhide Source objects: Alt+H used to Hide/Unhide Source objects in History
  • Isolating objects: Added new icon and the “i” key will hide all unselected objects, if no objects are selected it will unhide all hidden objects
  • Prehighlighting on/off option: An option to turn on or turn off prehighlighting has been added in the Preferences Panel
  • Curve color: Curves are displayed as a darker value of the surface color
  • Units display: Current model units are displayed in the application titlebar
  • Background images: Icon added in each of the modeling windows and parameters are controlled in the Modeling Tool Panel
  • Fit Model Shortcut: Added “F” key shortcut for Fit Whole Model if nothing is selected. If an object is selected this will fit to the selected object.
  • Hide Curves: Added new icon and the “Q” key will Hide/Unhide all the curves in the scene

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(Keep Learning: solidThinking Evolve 2014 – Webinar was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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Celestial Accessory

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:01 AM PST

Spacetime is an original watch concept based on the movement and orbits of celestial objects- in particular that of our own planet. After all, our concept of time on Earth is relative to its motion around the sun, making a day a day and a year a year. Elegantly futuristic, it’s out-of-this-world cool. Watch and see how it works —>

Designer: Daniel Salisbury

Spacetime | Watch Concept Inspired by Celestial Orbits from Dan Salisbury on Vimeo.

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Simply…The String Table

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:01 AM PST

As you might have guessed from the name, the heart of this design is a single thread that keeps it all together. This otherwise insignificant material becomes an integral part of both the construction and aesthetic nature of the design. Its minimal amount of materials and unique cantilevered construction not only make it flat-pack ready and easy to transport but comfortable and open with leg room to spare.

Designer: Saif Faisal Design Studio

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