Monday, October 29, 2007

Podcasts--Polymer Clay


This podcast interests me because I had some questions about polymer clay. I recently borrowed a book called 'Faux surfaces in Polymer Clay'. It caught my eye purely for the interesting surfaces I might mimic in some of my work, without really knowing what polymer was all about. I had a feeling that it was related to Fimo or Sculpty clay which I tend to think look cheesy but maybe something interesting can come out of it. The podcast went into detail about what tools are needed to start working at home like, a pasta maker, rolling pin, acrylic paint and smooth work surface. It ended with some silly commercial:)

NY Times article on Materialise

This article helped to sum it up for me on how the Materialise-mgx technology works and should help anyone still confused. Click on it to read it more clearly.

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Arik Levy (Materialise)




Jewelry examples by Arik Levy who designs for Materialise...

within4walls

Discovered this site while doing Materialise research...alot of Materialise designers are included here as well..

http://www.within4walls.co.uk

Podcasts

New to the world of podcasts...although I do listen to audio books--they seem similar, but shorter like news briefs. The one I just listened to was about how diamonds are preferred over many other precious stones and sales show a lot more self-purchased products these days as opposed to gifts. That podcast was aired by the GIA. I just listened to one that was crap, so they aren't all winners. The music at the beginning of most of them makes me giggle.

Assa Ashauch (Materialise)




Some examples of furniture done using rapid protyping technology...

Janne Kyttanen (Materialise)



I love these lamps. The shadows and the idea of what impressions a shadow make visually is nice.