Core77 2013 Year in Review: Digital Fabrication, Part 3 – What Designers Did
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Materials, Pt. 1: Wood
There was plenty of eye candy and food for design thought in this year’s crop of digitally fabricated projects. The monster draw was, hands-down, this straight-up piece of bike porn: industrial designer Ralf Holleis’ VRZ 2 Track Bike. This trickily-made fixie boasts lugs that one might think are laser sintered; instead, they’re laserCUSED, which is the name of a proprietary process so complicated to explain it will get its own entry in future.
A very different type of bicycle also drew many mouseclicks: the “Draisienne” by Samuel Bernier and Andreas Bhend. But like Holleis’ creation, you won’t be able to buy this one in stores; it was hacked together from an IKEA Frosta stool and bespoke parts produced in a Makerbot Replicator 2, in a collaboration between Bernier and Bhend that (exhaling on fingernails) we believe we inspired.
We all know vinyl doesn’t grow on trees, but maple sure does. Instructables editor Amanda Ghassaei blew our minds by turning the stuff into records, after coaxing an Epilog laser cutter into etching the strains of Radiohead and The Velvet Underground into the material’s surface.
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