bending canvas Design process fabric forming material wood 

Marc Russell canoes

Marc Russell builds canoes by hand , he’s saying that the beauty lives in imperfections , but those canoe are such a craftsmanship work of art , i would call them perfect Build out of 70 board feet of white cedar ( nothern ontario) and white Ash , canvas , 2200 brass canoe tags and a secret sauce . 100/200 hours of handmade work check his website here . http://www.glbw.ca/custombuilding.html

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Design process forming glass glass blowing handmade household material process Product wood 

Yalog- glass and wood

Glass is always fascinating. An ancient material, made of sand and fire, bent by human hand and breath, shows its double nature, liquid and solid, and keeps touching us, from its shaping to when it enters our houses. In furnaces I learned the meaning of labour, and the passion of people moulding it. I knew the ancient tools deforming, ripping, or smoothing it. But the most important thing, and often hidden to people who observe the crystal out of the “fornasa”, iswood. Always used to make moulds before the cold…

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assembly casting Design process fabric furniture handmade industrial material metal plastic process Product steel 

Aeron Chair by Herman Miller

“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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