March 2012 – Product by Process

Fender Stratocaster

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New short film “A Strat is Born” takes you on a high-speed ride through the creation of a Fender Stratocaster guitar at Fender’s U.S. manufacturing facility in Corona, Calif., showing you every step from bare wood to onstage and set to a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Wayne Kramer

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Dandelion Chocolate

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we never really speak about food here on product by process but because chocolate tablets look like lego bricks and because the molding/melting process is really close to plastic …. the process here is really precise and the final result definitely depend of the manufacturer passion, here is the story of a dandelion chocolate bar; thanks alex M Meet Todd Masonais, the co-founder and chocolate maker behind Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco, a very special, small-batch chocolate company dedicated to nothing else but sharing the pure flavor of the cacao…

Birth of a book

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A short vignette of a book being created using traditional printing methods. For the Daily Telegraph. Shot at Smith-Settle Printers, Leeds, England. The book being printed is Suzanne St Albans’ ‘Mango and Mimosa’ published as part of the Slightly Foxed series. Shot, Directed & Edited by Glen Milner

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Aeron Chair by Herman Miller

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“The process is as important as the results: It’s the individual employees on the line that are suggesting these improvements. At Herman Miller, they average 1,200 “plan-do-check acts”–that is, little proposed changes to the assembly process–ever year. “The biggest thing is to empower people to change the work in ways that matter to them,” says Eric VanDam, Herman Miller’s director of operations in seating” from fast co design: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669397/an-american-made-miracle-how-an-aeron-chair-gets-built-every-17-seconds picture and video by Drew Anthony Smith/Fast Company

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BLAST chairs by explosion

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A different approach to forming a stool, this one is about using deyonation to shape the stool. enjoy the video .

HTC one: Micro arc oxidation

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What is Micro arc oxidation? aircraft 6000 series aluminum on which you apply 10000 volts of energy . the result is a ceramic finish that is not a coating but more a treatment to the metal .

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Bench by Street & Garden Furniture Co

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manufacturing of an aluminum and wood bench for Street & Garden Furniture Co. Design David Shaw & Warren Lee, 1993 Materials Cast aluminium seat ends and armrests w/- hardwood Kwila seat slats through core 77