Art & Design

Street Clocks

Fluid Form is one of an increasing number of personalised product companies.  Easy to use online tools allow the customer to design unique creations based on geographical data (maps, topography etc).   Read more: http://www.fluid-forms.com/

Mummy of Tutankhamun

This recent Discovery channel piece illustrates how museums are using a mix of modern digital fabrication techniques and traditional artists skills to preserve, protect and display artefacts.

Graffiti Analysis

Researcher and artist Evan Roth uses motion capture technology to record the unique signature of graffiti artists.  Movement data is captured  and imported into a 3d package.  This data is then 3d printed to produce a unique visualisation of the tag.  Time is extruded along the Z axis and pen speed is represented by the thickness of the model.

The software developed for the project and comprehensive how to guides are available at http://graffitianalysis.com/

Read more: http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/500-Graffiti-Analysis-3D-Printed-Tags.html

My Hubble

My Hubble is a life size model of the Hubble Space Telescope by Australian artist Peter Hennessey.   The entire model was drawn in Adobe Illustrator and then laser cut in plywood.   It took Hennessey 6 weeks just to cut the pieces and 3 months to construct the actual model.

Read more: http://blog.ponoko.com/2010/06/09/peter-hennesseys-laser-cut-hubble/

Datadecs

RIG developed Datadecs as part experiment and part Christmas presents for their friends.  Datadecs are personalised Christmas decorations based on an individuals social networking statistics (miles travelled on Dopplr,  apertures used on Flickr, number of followers on Twitter etc).

Read more: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2010/01/data-decs.html

The Good Night Lamp

The Good Night Lamp by Alex Dechamps Sonsino marries physical computing with digital fabrication.  The family of lamps allow people to communicate the act of returning home.  The idea is for the owner of the lamp to give away the smaller ‘child’ lamps to their loved ones around the world.  As the parent lamp is turned on the child lamp turns on as well indicating that the person has returned home.

Read more: http://www.goodnightlamp.com/



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