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To cover the gap between this installment and my last entry:
In parts 1 and 2, I covered the current low-end and hints of the future high-end potential for augmented reality.
In parts 3 and 4, I touched upon both current mass production methods and emerging rapid manufacturing technology.
In parts 5 and 6, I linked tangible to […]

In the previous installment I focused on tools that help designers create virtual models. In this entry I want to focus on other ways to generate virtual models (in all their glory).
The word “sampling” is probably most often associated with music, but it’s not at all limited to that application. Physical models are sometimes sculpted […]

As the previous two entries were very much about the meatspace side of the equation and there was basically no discussion regarding the digital in “direct digital manufacturing”, I want to address that now. In addition, I want to expand from the relatively limited idea of “manufacturing” (which has certain connotations) to the broader idea […]

Originally, in my prior post, I’d included the disclaimer that while using molds might be an old solution, the ability to do it well is both an art and a science. It’s no easy thing to properly balance all the different factors that go into molding quality plastic parts. But the same can be said […]

At this stage I just wanted to post a reminder of just how amazingly basic much of today’s manufacturing technology really is. To that end I surfed around for some visual media to help illustrate my point. The above video does a decent job providing an overview of the injection mold-based manufacturing process currently used in […]

In a previous entry I called out the lack of predictions (and thus, by default, discussion) for the future of the Industrial Design profession. For what it’s worth, that entry was the most recent of a few that have been sitting idle in the cue. And this one… or rather what remains of it… was […]

For those of you with a feed the slowdown and general lack of entries here has probably not gone unnoticed. There’s a relatively simple answer for the reason I’ve not been posting more regularly: I don’t feel compelled to do so. Now here are the reasons for that:
1) I’ve started “micro-blogging” quick snippets over on […]