The yeast is deactivated before it becomes a 3D-printed panel
At Chalmers, baker’s yeast is not kept alive for effect. It is heated, deactivated, mixed with cellulose and printed at room temperature into lightweight architectural sheets.
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IRZ Craft archive, page 8.
Before cartridges, making needles was part of the tattooer's job
Premade needles, disposables and then cartridges progressively moved soldering, sterilisation and part of quality control out of the tattoo studio. CAM Supply offers a useful view of that shift.
An erased picture returns as a sculpture coloured by its own disappearance
Saya Irie erases a printed image, collects the coloured residue and works it like clay to rebuild the motif in three dimensions. The waste from one gesture becomes the material for the next.
MUJI restores old furniture without erasing its previous repairs
MUJI is now selling furniture recovered from old Japanese houses and repaired without systematically erasing its traces. Scratches, joints and previous repairs become a material archive.
Three office tools turn their hidden mechanisms into interfaces
With Transparent Mechanism, Kokuyo exposes the gears, blades and moving parts inside three office tools. Transparency becomes useful when it actually explains what the object is doing.
Repairing a Nikon F100 also means repairing the documentation around it
On a complex film camera, the service manual may not be enough. Repair also depends on photographs, parts lists, measurements, remade components and notes left by people who have already opened the machine.
Susan Kare was already drawing code before she touched the Macintosh
Graph paper, a 32 × 32 grid, actual-size preview and finally hexadecimal for ROM: the first Macintosh icons came from a workflow where drawing and technical constraint were inseparable.
Soldering tutorials have an occlusion problem. 3D capture can help
Thirteen soldering demonstrations use free-viewpoint Gaussian splats so the learner can move around the iron, tweezers and PCB after the gesture has been recorded.
Thousands of screws must remember how this building comes apart
VUILD’s Tokyo project connects modular timber, thousands of digitally defined screw positions and 3D-printed guides to a simple requirement: the building should be able to come apart later.
The birth of a new Pantone?
Pantone turned color into a shared but proprietary language. The Experimental Paint Archive asks the inverse question: can we build a material standard that is open, reproducible and trustworthy?