Logo Design Contest for Art in the Air

Art in the Air needs a logo and $836.00 will go to the winning design. For information please check out our contest page [...]

PROJECTiONE fabricates Radiance

PROJECTiONE is a student collaborative based at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA. They engage “cooperative relationships between analog and digital in design and fabrication.”  PROJECTiONE  recently completed a project called, Radiance, featured in the video below.

Radiance (detail), PROJECTiONE.com

Donna Sink, an Adjunct Professor at Ball State  involved in the project [...]

INPUT_OUTPUT: ADAPTIVE MATERIALS AND MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS

Temple University Tyler School of Art Architecture Department
Conference Co-chairs Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel

INPUT_OUTPUT: Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments will address the convergence of several significant and fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated, and experienced within architecture and related disciplines.

CALL FOR PROJECTS
The symposium chairs invite designers, architects, theorists, and students [...]

Iron Man 2's 'Secret Sauce'

A little something for the 3D Printing crowd . . .

Maybe the most cutting-edge facet ofIron Man 2‘s production was the real-life fabrication of the suits. Using 3-D printers, the film’s production company, Legacy Effects, was able to have artists draw an art concept–and then physically make that concept in just four [...]

what is a fractal, what is fractal art?

Wikipedia says

A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity – more HERE

In the natural world objects that exist due to a fractal-type generative process include: clouds, [...]

New Architecture of Phase Change Computer-Assisted Ice Construction

NextFab founder, Evan Malone, co-created the Fab@Home 3D printing project we referenced in a recent post. At McGill University they are using a Fab@Home unit to 3D print ice!

New Architecture of Phase Change:Computer-Assisted Ice Construction

3D printing ice [...]

Breadboard & NextFab get some local press

The University City Science Center is a research park unto itself, and as such is host to tons of fabulous organizations. One of those is Breadboard.

Read more here.

sample objects fabricated @ [...]

The disruptive future of printing

A nice article at http://news.bbc.co.uk on the exciting future of 3D printing.

“3D printing will soon come up against laws made in a world of factories and machine tools, and the battle is likely to be even more intense than that over music and films” –Bill Thompson

Evan Malone, founder of NextFab Studio ( Breadboard’s programming [...]

Bent Festival 2010

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending.

The 2010 Bent Festival will take place at 81 Front Street in Dumbo (Brooklyn, NY), April 22-24, 2010. The festival space has been generously donated by [...]

David Bowen’s art of the onion

This Fall (2010) EKG will be exhibiting new work by David Bowen.  David’s Growth Modeling Device is currently featured in Design by Performance at Centrum voor actuele kunst en vormgeving Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium.

Bowen recently won grand prize in the art division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival. In conjunction with this award his work was featured in an [...]