Co.Design | business + design: Product designer Adam Blencowe is obsessed with experimental manufacturing processes, like using ice to cast plaster furniture or balloons as a mold. Graphic designer Marine Duroselle has an eye for exquisite patterns and colors. When the two Royal College of Art graduates decided to collaborate, they ended up with a plush collection of prismatic rugs made with high-tech tools and age-old techniques.
This definatley has some amazing uses in our world. As the article stated felting usually takes forever and isn't as precise and this is true. what this machine makes possible is the production of identical felted items which would have been very expensive and time consuming otherwise. Its this kind of innovation that fuels the world of theater because there is always something that can be done better or fast or cheaper and that is what this dose.
ReplyDeleteThis is so inventive. I am all for a one-tool-fits-all approach where you just jig one machine to do everything you need. The CNC router is a direct descendant of this philosophy. Someone took the most versatile tool in the shop (in my opinion) and hooked it up to some coordinates. If tool companies start making more bits and jigs and less machines, we'd be on our way to cheaper more efficient shops. For example, a foam cutter it just a jigsaw or port-a-band with foot but it's a $400 machine that only does one thing with almost no room for improving upon its function because of the way tool companies made it. It's also nice to see that the functions of shop tools can be used and are being used in different spies to make high quality work in record times.
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