Young Czech Shoe Designers: Three talented fashion graduates take on modern footwear

Young Czech Shoe Designers


by Adam Štěch There is a fresh new wave rising in Czech fashion. Relatively young names have come onto the scene, and several new events have been established to showcase their work. In recognition of the talent, we’ve gathered three exceptional fashion designers—coincidentally, all graduates of the Academy of Arts,…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Skateboarding India, poems on Mars, 3D-printed ears and more in our look at the web this week

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Internet Early Days The first public site on the World Wide Web is now back at its original URL to celebrate the Web’s 20th anniversary. The text-only page features a brief explanation of its purpose…

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Blueberries 3D-Printed Jewelry : Two Czech designers collaborate on an award-winning collection of innovative accessories

Blueberries 3D-Printed Jewelry


by Adam Štěch The contemporary Czech jewelry scene is exceptional. Over the past few years, an array of intriguing designers and craftsmen have become newly curious about jewelry as an abstract structure and have formed a new movement around this facet of design….

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Whole Foods’ rooftop greenhouse, the late Roger Ebert, the cell phone’s 40th birthday and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. AIPAD Photography Show The Park Avenue Armory in NYC is currently playing host to the AIPAD Photography Show, one of the year’s most impressive gatherings of contemporary photography talent. For those unable to make the show, ); return…

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Soft Pioneers by Emil Alzamora: Digitally manipulated sculptures swarm together in the artist’s latest solo show

Soft Pioneers by Emil Alzamora


For his latest exhibition, Peruvian-born sculptor Emil Alzamora fuses, stretches and bloats the human form in an exhibition on technology and society. With a history of creating metamorphosed, elongated and obese figures, the jump to digital…

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Hard Candy by Yan Rui: Jewelry inspired by Eastern reincarnation philosophy, Nine Inch Nails and more

Hard Candy by Yan Rui

by Alessandro De Toni In the last few years Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts has become an epicenter of the capital’s creativity, producing an array of talented artists and designers each year. Included among the group of elite graduates is Yan Rui, who after finishing her studies at CAFA…

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3D DIY Sex Toys: Intimate toys get more even more personal

3D DIY Sex Toys

by Paul Cantagallo The most exciting developing technology at the moment, 3D printing continues to present us with new and fascinating ways to bring just about anything to life in solid, customizable form. Novelty is one thing, however—true innovation is another. One industry showing huge growth in relation to 3D…

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Material Innovation at Maison et Objet 2013: 3D printed architecture, wall gardens and electroluminescent lighting technology at this year’s fair

Material Innovation at Maison et Objet 2013

Earlier in the week we looked at unconventional seating design and the use of light as themes at Maison et Objet 2013, now we take a step closer to the design process and look back on a few material innovations we saw at this year’s fair. From wall gardens…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Lego DeLoreans, Hobbit Homes, Bees On A Plane and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks

1. The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek Last February a severe avalanche occurred just outside Stevens Pass Ski Resort in Washington state, killing three industry veterans. Included in the lost was Stevens’ marketing director Chris Rudolph, the man who was to be our guide on a media trip scheduled the…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: South Korea’s toilet museum, Bond’s 3D-printed Aston Martin, facial hair fanatics and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks

1. 3D-Printed Aston Martin Though the story called for a precious 1960 Aston Martin DB5 to be decimated, producers of “Skyfall,” the latest Bond installment, saved the rare icon by combining 3D printing with creative modeling. Propshop Modelmakers Ltd. employed a Voxeljet VX4000 large-scale printer to produce a series…

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