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I’ve been collecting clever ways of slotting flat stock together since I first read Nomadic Furniture back in 1999, well before the advent of the accessible hobby-class CNC tools that, today, make manufacturing parts like these pretty easy.
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"A Strat is Born" takes you on a high-speed ride through the creation of a Fender Stratocaster guitar at Fender's U.S. manufacturing facility in Corona, California.
It's shot and edited like a European film of the variety one spouse drags another to see, but the following vid is a great look at how a bentwood chair is made.
Production Methods: Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair - Core77
It gets a bit literal Like many of our faithful readers, Australian designer and sometime filmmaker Björn Rust noticed the trend of production/fabrication/ manufacturing videos and saw fit to share his own take on the same.
Made by Hands: Yet Another Beautiful Manufacturing Video - Core77
Forget Commercials: Make a Good Craftsperson Video - Core77
This Alfred Dunhill leather case construction spot is one of the best "objects being made" videos I've seen recently, and I've sat through a lot. The recent rash of such videos makes it harder for good ones to rise to the top, as the videos take on a kind of sameness—shallow field of focus lovingly lingering on tools, poignant voiceover with a few piano chords in the background, off-center subject slowly coming into focus while staring earnestly into the camera—but this one gets right down to business and lets the work, and the sounds of work, do the talking: "Objects being made" videos are not only good for making people aware of production, but when well-done, they're beneficial for sales: Within two weeks of release, this one reportedly led to a 500% increase in sales of the bag being shown, the $3,200 Tradition Double Document Case .
Designer Jólan van der Wiel has sent us this movie by Miranda Stet featuring his machine for shaping stools using gravity and magnets. The machine and its outcomes are on display as part of the [D3] Contest for young designers at imm cologne in Germany this week. Jólan van der Wiel presented the machine at Dezeen Platform in London last autumn – you can see photos in our story here and watch our interview with him here .
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Over mold wooden furniture | Over molding
Joining wood using an overmold process. Several designers create inspirational furniture using this technique. (+ read more) Dar by Christof Schmidt. The solid wooden elements of the chair are broken to measure and placed into a silicone-mould. Due to its expansion the poured in polyurethane foam infiltrates into every single wooden fibre at the breaking point and connects the pieces soundly. The foam hardens within minutes. (+ Source)
La collection de Zieta pour la première fois sur Maison & Objet | Yookô
Il y a 3 ans maintenant, Oskar Zieta faisait sensation avec la présentation du tabouret Plopp… Une pièce iconique qui dévoilait une technologie révolutionnaire développée depuis plusieurs années par l’ingénieur et son acolyte, Philippe Dohmen. Le procédé, appelé FIDU (Freie InnenDruckUmformung – libre déformation sous pression interne), commence par la découpe au laser de deux patrons en tôle qui sont ensuite soudés sur leurs contours. On y introduit alors de l’air ou une autre matière sous pression afin de former le volume de la pièce. Si la phase de production en 2D est contrôlée à 100%, le processus de déformation de la tôle, quant à lui, échappe dans certaines limites au designer, faisant de chaque pièce un produit unique, malgré une production série.
Time Bicycles: Carbon Fiber Weaving and Resin Transfer Molding - Core77
This video could've done with some sound (and less distracting editing), but it provides an interesting look at how a carbon-fiber bicycle comes together. France's Time Bicycles uses a manufacturing process called Resin Transfer Molding, which involves drawing the resin into the fibers at the mold, and claims to be "the only cycling designer that has perfectly mastered this fabrication process." The way the video is shot admittedly renders parts of the production quite dull, but at least check out the trippy machines in the beginning that weave the carbon strands together:
MOCO LOCO Galleries | Tree-D Printing by Freedom of Creation
[UPDATE: Tree-D printing is too good to be true , it was an April Fools day prank a day early. As much as we wanted it to be true - Shapeways does "print" metal, glass and acrylic after all - additive manufacturing with wood is still a ways off. Although, if you're interested, digital file to finished physical object in wood is possible at Ponoko .] From Freedom of Creation : We have been preaching about the sustainability of 3D printing for a long time, but it is still quite difficult for most to understand the bigger picture.swissmiss | The Making of The Fiberglass Chair
Watch as the original craftsman makes Eames Shell Chairs recreating the same process they used half a century ago. Film shot at Century Plastics. Using authentic material, a nearly lost art form is revived.Vidéo: Ben Kandel | Journal du Design
Véritable art, le tournage sur bois mérite amplement un petit focus surtout quand la vidéo est super bien réalisée (merci encore le Canon 7D) et l’ébéniste jeune et adorable ! Comme l’explique Ben Kandel, il est tombé dans le tournage sur bois étant petit grâce à un voisin de sa grand mère et depuis il ne lâche plus sa machine. Tout à fait hypnotisant, ces morceaux de bois tournent sans cesse et grâce au savoir faire de Ben Kandel et à son coup de main déjà expert, ils prennent forme pour devenir, stylo, toupie…Technology should be used to make our lives easier and better – there’s no doubt about it. The creative types at Snijlab agree: the Rotterdam-based service uses their computer-controlled laser cutter to make products on demand. Some products they invent and develop themselves, like these impressive wooden booklets.