2013 – Page 2 – Product by Process

volvo FH trucks : combining shape, function and identity

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Truck design is about much more than just picking out attractive colours and shapes. Behind the new, safer, larger and more ergonomically optimised Volvo FH lies a significant design challenge. “Coming up with solutions where design and function go hand in hand was one of our most important tasks,” says Rikard Orell, Design Director at Volvo Trucks. Here you can learn more about the challenging design process behind the new Volvo FH. thanks core 77

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nike innovator :Mike Friton

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Mike Friton is a freelance shoemaker, weaver, paper sculptor and innovator with over 30 years of experience at Nike. His innovations are responsible for many elements of athletic footwear that people wear today. Each of his crafts informs one another and he is constantly exploring the fringes of his field. Mike’s work is a great example of how non-traditional methods of exploring one’s craft can lead to unique end results.

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Marc Maingard guitars: Making Trees Sing Again

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“It’s like taking a magical tree that has been cut down and killed, but it lives. It still lives, the pores of the wood are still shifting, and drying, and changing. It’s almost as though the tree has a chance to sing again, with the wind blowing through its branches again.” – Marc Maingard A brief look into the life and profession of one of the top five luthiers in the world. Marc Maingard, a born and bread South African, shares some of his secrets and philosophies that have helped…

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Moiré

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Moiré is an enquiry into material and process. My interest lies in where craft processes lie in contemporary design. In this project I have subverted one of the oldest crafts in existence, the coiling of clay, by automating the process using an extruding machine. Once fired this uniform layered construct of ceramic produces startling results, the ceramic actually behaves like a spring. The dip dying process is again another process not usually associated with ceramics, however I found that the porosity of the work lended itself to absorbing colour. The…

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Organic and printed electronics

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the printing process of electronic functional materials, , Printed electronics can be used for multiple purposes – either for light design or touch sensors, for solar cells or battery technologies.

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A Viper’s nest, Chystler Detroit

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.a sneak peek inside a newly reopened Chrysler plant in Detroit where they are assembling the new Viper. Related article: http://nyti.ms/XVVlRf via Notcot

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3d printing : shapeways

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Shapeways opens up 3D printing to the masses, allowing us to design and share our ideas as well as realize them as physical objects.

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Koenigsegg master of carbon fiber

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nice tour inside Koenigsegg factory where they show their secrets about carbon fiber hand molded pieces.

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Flamenca, the flamenco guitar

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Pieces of wood, love, knowledge and 299 hours of work, condensed in a 3 minute film. The new episode from the series ‘The Art of Making’, titled ‘Alma Flamenca’, is available for you to enjoy. The ‘Art of Making’ series of films, aspires to display and highlight certain people, which go against the spirit of today’s pessimism and desperation. They dare to dream and create with zeal and imagination. Armed with passion for knowledge and emotion, they attempt to combine the precision of science with the elegance and resourcefulness of…