Vers une économie résiliente Par Rémi Sussan le 27/04/09 | 13 commentaires | 8,080 lectures | Impression Intéressant dialogue, par blogs interposés, entre Jamais Cascio et John Robb sur le thème de l’après crise. Ces deux auteurs, qui figurent parmi les plus intéressants de la blogosphère anglo-saxonne ont déjà été mentionnés plusieurs fois dans nos colonnes. Cascio est un spécialiste de la prospective et a collaboré notamment à la création de “ Superstruct “. Il s’intéresse de près au Green Design (cette nouvelle tendance du design appliquée à la technologie, qu’on pourrait traduire par la “conception durable”), en témoigne sa participation au projet World Changing (le site et le livre). Dans un scénario écrit du point de vue d’un citoyen des années 2010 Jamais Cascio explore le concept “d’économie résiliente”. L’économie résiliente qu’imagine Cascio conserverait les valeurs des idéologies qui l’ont précédée : l’insistance du socialisme sur l’égalité et celle du capitalisme sur la production de richesse.
The Homebrew Industrial Revolution The Idea of a Tree by Mischer’Traxler DMY Berlin 09: Viennese designers Mischer'Traxler have created a solar-powered machine that makes furniture, with the shape and colour of each product determined by the amount of sunlight available during manufacture. The machine, called The Idea of a Tree, makes benches, containers and lamp shades by drawing thread through a tank of dye followed by a tank of resin, then wrapping it around a mould that's rotated by a solar-powered machine. The project is on show this week at DMY Youngsters exhibition in Berlin. The speed at which the machine spins the mould and draws the thread is dictated by the amount of sunlight falling on it; the portion of a component made during a cloudy period will be darker and thinner than that made in bright sunshine. Each piece takes one whole day to make and the resulting variations in thickness and colour-saturation along its length record the variations in daylight and shadow falling on it throughout the day. Here's some more information from the designers:
Thomas Chippendale Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Bureau chinois fait par Chippendale, exposé au musée de Carmen de Maipú, de Santiago du Chili. chaise provinciale de style Chippendale avec un élaboré dossier à tracé "Gothique". Il s'installa à Londres en 1749 où, en 1754, il devint le premier ébéniste à publier un livre de ses réalisations : The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. Trois éditions en furent publiées, la première en 1754, suivie par une réédition en 1755 et une dernière édition, revue et augmentée en 1762, à un moment où les dessins illustrés de Chippendale commençaient à montrer des signes du néoclassicisme. Chippendale était plus qu'un simple créateur de meubles. Chippendale est enterré à l'église de St Martin-in-the-Fields en Londres. Source[modifier | modifier le code] (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Thomas Chippendale » (voir la liste des auteurs) Lien externe[modifier | modifier le code]
REPLICATOR — Putting the "Custom" Back In Customer Gifs have become a fixture of the web, transformed Buzzfeed into a major media entity, and brought countless millions of hours of joy to bored office drones the world over. There’s a gif search engine and a service that will turn these little moments of web zen into IRL animated pictures. So why aren’t these miniature animations used more widely for practical purposes? Do any ecommerce sites use animated gifs to show off the unique features of a product? How about replacing turgid instructional guides with gif-tastic help pages? Animated images are a perfect midpoint between static images and full on video content, but are rarely used for productive purposes, with a few exceptions. DIY.org, a kid friendly site that aims to transform little video gamers into latter day scouts uses the art form to highlight the physicality of their merit badges: Despite their obvious utility, these catchy little cartoons are relegated to cat pics and epic fails. 2. 3. HT: Nick de la Mare 1. HT: Tim O’Reilly
L’Artisan Électronique by Unfold and Tim Knapen Another bonkers machine! This one is a virtual potters wheel by Belgian designers Unfold and Tim Knapen. Like the onion-scanning contraption in our previous story this machine, called L’Artisan Électronique, is on show at Z33 in Hasselt as part of an exhibition called Design by Performance. The device creates pots from rolls of clay in response to movements of visitors hands through a sensor. The exhibition continues until 30 May. Update 02/06/11: watch the designers explaining the project in our movie on Dezeen Screen Here's some more information from the designers (in Dutch): Unfold & Tim Knapen, L’Artisan Electronique (2010), productieopdracht Z33 Naast de keramiekprinter creëerde Unfold samen met Tim Knapen voor L’Artisan Électro- nique een virtuele draaischijf. In L’Artisan Électronique wordt het pottenbak- ken, één van de oudste ambachtelijke procé- dés voor het maken van gebruiksvoorwerpen, verweven met nieuwe digitale technieken. See also:
Les enjeux de la fabrication personnelle Par Rémi Sussan le 24/06/09 | 9 commentaires | 6,431 lectures | Impression Structurée autour du Do it yourself (Faites le vous-mêmes !) et du Green design (cette conception écologique qui se veut soutenable dans sa nature même), la principale question posée au cours de Lift France 2009 fut de savoir jusqu’où les concepts couramment utilisés dans le monde du web (participation, open source, réplication infinie des informations, etc.) pouvaient quitter les écrans d’ordinateurs pour envahir le monde physique. Passer de la conception industrielle à la conception personnelle A ce titre, l’idée de fabrication personnelle constitue un point fondamental. Mike Kuniavsky, designer et créateur de Thing M, a cherché à remettre les tendances actuelles dans une perspective historique. Image : Mike Kuniavsky de Thing M sur la scène de Lift par Frank Kresin. Toujours selon Lessig, nous rappelle Kuniavsky, notre civilisation numérique est entrée à nouveau dans une phase read/write. Rémi Sussan
THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY: 3D Printing Eleven 3D Printing Predictions For the Year 2011 This is a guest post by Joris Peels, the Community Manager of i.materialise, a 3D printing service for designers, inventors and consumers. They are part of Materialise, a company with over 20 years experience in 3D printing and the market leader in 3D printing services and software. Making predictions is a sure fire path towards getting ridiculed. Makerbot will sell more than 10,000 3D printers in 2011. Bre Pettis will appear on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in 2011.Bre Pettis is the congenial Maker in Chief of Makerbot. A designer will have revenues of over one million US dollars with a single 3D printed product in 2011. Both Stratasys and Objet will release $5000 desktop 3D printers at Euromold 2011. $5,000 is the new $20,000. Zcorp & EOS will be the only major 3D printer manufacturers not to offer a desktop 3D printer in 2011. EOS on the other hand has made no move whatsoever towards the desktop market.
amazon 3D Printing Feed a device with blueprints for a solid object of your choosing, then let the machine build it for you from plastic or other simple materials [1] Video illustration at "3D Printing” is an umbrella term that covers four distinct manufacturing technologies. All are “Additive Fabrication” processes that create objects by adding material in thin layers until a product is completed. "Three-dimensional printers, often called rapid prototypers, assemble objects out of an array of specks of material, just as traditional printers create images out of dots of ink or toner. "3D Printing is a technique that deposits material layer by layer using a head similar to that of a inkjet printer. Discussing the Definition "3D Printing is currently rather a hard term to define. The official definition maintains that 3D Printing is is just one of the many ways that you do this. "What might this 3D printer be useful for? Spare Parts. From the Wikipedia: Interview
a blog about 3D printing and what comes next 3D Systems purchase of Geomagic is the latest in a long string of acquisitions the company has made in the 3D printing industry. 3D Systems seems intent on being active in any and every area of the 3D printing industry and having the complete software toolchain as well as a 3D printer or 3D printing service for every segment. The inventors of stereolithography amazed many people when they all of a sudden started aggressively acquiring companies a few years back. The Geomagic purchase is one of 3D System’s largest and also surprised many in the industry. In retrospect it seems a logical move, purchase a company with mesh repair software, generative tooling as well as 3D authoring tools. But, I’m not sure many anticipated it. Materialise &/or Pro-Fit The first thing I thought however is, “Well I guess that Charly or Fried aren’t selling.” But, what else might be on 3D System’s shopping list? Arcam 3D Systems has exposure to medical through Bespoke Innovations and its own machines. Renishaw
Besoin d’hybride Par Hubert Guillaud le 17/07/08 | 11 commentaires | 17,887 lectures | Impression Souvent le numérique fonctionne en circuit fermé, sur lui-même. Le numérique alimente le numérique. Ce que l’on fait sur le web n’a pas ou peu ou (trop) faiblement de résonances sur le monde réel. La personne que j’incarne dans le numérique n’est pas la même que celle que je suis dans la vie quotienne. Les deux mondes semblent continuer d’être étanches l’un à l’autre, alors que dans notre quotidien nous les vivons en simultanés. Révéler le numérique dans le réel Révéler le réel dans le numérique : on commence à avoir des pistes. Mais l’inverse est beaucoup moins vrai. Quelles passerelles ? Nous avons besoin d’hybridation. Les objets et les espaces ont déjà une composante numérique très dense. On ne peut pas croire longtemps que nous allons avoir d’un côté le numérique et de l’autre le monde réel, comme deux mondes qui ne se rencontrent pas mais se croisent tous les jours. Du numérique à l’hypermatériel
Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: 3D Printing and the Supply Chain The editorial staff at Supply Chain Digest asks an interesting question: "How Soon will 'Printed' Parts Revolutionize Supply Chains - and the World?" [22 February 2011] I first posted a blog that mentioned 3D printers back in November 2006. I discussed the subject at more length the next year in a post entitled Where is My Replicator? At that time, 3D printers were still pretty much an expensive novelty item. Obviously, ball bearings made from a plastic powder have limited use. "Filton, just outside Bristol, is where Britain's fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners was built. Now there's a print job! "Engineers and designers have been using 3D printers for more than a decade, but mostly to make prototypes quickly and cheaply before they embark on the expensive business of tooling up a factory to produce the real thing. The Supply Chain Digest article with which I began this post asserts that "company executive personnel need to get more in front of this technology wave."