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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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Snowboards-Fish out of Water-Surf Snowboard

The birth of Snurf, a board that can surf ( on wave) and snowboard( on snow) . Meet the “Fish Out of Water” snow surfboard or surf snowboard. Yes, a joint-venture between Signal Snowboards, Surf Prescriptions and Future Fins resulted in a “snurfboard” As slightly diffferent video than usual but super interesting nevertheless, process, built, ideas, tryout, everything is in there, and the final result work. enjoy from the creators ; “Happy New Year and Happy New ETT! This month we find ourselves floating out an entirely new concept as…

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3d printed Bikini

continuum fashion  has launched a new project called N12 , which is the first 100% 3D printed and ready-to-wear garment in the shape of a cute little bikini. To get it ready for printing, Rhino 3D CAD software and a specially written algorithmic script are used to create the structure of the 3D printed fabric. The material used to print (N12, which is where the name derives from) is a waterproff Nylon that can be printed on 3D printing machine. Due to the properties of the material, Continuum says that it’s…

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Vinyl Record

This video walks you through the process of creating one of the most beautiful and qualitative sound support, the vinyl record .Basically a short documentary on how the Vinyl Record is made, from the master,the lacquer disc,  the silver process , the nickel process, to the produce, engraved copy . The second video shows a little bit more automatize process, this french factory closed in 2008 Thanks Ronan.

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