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12Mar2010

Timber Table

Timber: wooden table

This table called Timber was designed by Julian Kyhl. There are no glue or screws to assemble. And it has only 10 parts: 4 top planks, 4 legs and 2 cross bars. Marvellous.

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11Mar2010

Folding Bike

Folding bike

More things that fold. This is a concept for a foldable bike called Eco // 07 – Compactable Urban Bicycle by Victor Aleman. The wheels also fold using a double pivot joint. More at Yanko Design.

folding bike

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10Mar2010

Craft Social

Craft Social

The crafty designers decided to get together to do some crafts together. It started with some googling over a Japanese craft magazine until everyone realized they shared an interest in doing some felt crafts.

A lot of fun. No one wanted to go home.

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09Mar2010

Folding Chair

folding chair

A different take on the foldable chair from Chris Mark Johnson - currently a student at RISD.

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08Mar2010

Holi Festival Of Colours

Holi Festival of Colours

Last week the Holi Festival of Colours was celebrated as Spring was welcomed. The Big Picture and The Frame both have excellent photos of the festival.

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05Mar2010

Full Size Lego House

Full size Lego house

On 1 August 2009 James May, of BBC Top Gear fame, and 1000 volunteers started to build a full size Lego house. It was completed on 17 September and sadly torn down on 22 September. The Daily Mail has the full story. The project was done as part of a BBC series called James May's Toy Stories. The 3.3 million bricks - formerly a house - were donated to a charity.

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04Mar2010

Lego Crawler Town

Lego Crawler Town

Crawler Town is a new Lego concept model from Dave DeGobbi. It's a Mad Max vision of a post-apocalyptic future in which the Earth's resources are concentrated in a few towns built on crawlers. The crawlers become holiday destinations and the only place to get a pizza. The DeBoggi Flickr stream is well worth taking a look at - it has lots of excellent models.

A Blocumentary on Lego modellers is embedded below from Vimeo.

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03Mar2010

Lego Building Patchwork

Lego building patchwork

German artist Jan Vormann patches old buildings around the world with Lego. The project is called Dispatchwork. It has already taken place in Europe, Russia and South America.

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02Mar2010

Lego Robot Solves Rubik's Cube

CubeStormer Lego Rubik's Cube solving robot

CubeStormer is a Lego robot built using Mindstorms that can solve Rubik's Cube in under 12 seconds. Under the hood it uses a piece of software called Cube Explorer running on a PC.

YouTube video embedded below.

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