Wood frame bikes have long given way to aluminum and space age materials but designer Arndt Menke thinks we were too hasty in giving up on one of the strongest, resilient, and lightweight natural materials. The Holzweg bike’s frame is totally made of wood and weighs 5lbs, heavy for an elite frame, but light for wood–and has seat stays designed for strength that also provide shock absorption. via designboom
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Limited Edition is the new phenomenon in furniture design. The demand for unique pieces is steadily increasing. With prototypes, one-offs and limited product lines, designers are making furniture objects outside of, and parallel to, the industrial manufacturing system. Furniture prototypes have always been an element of the industrial design process, but now they are being brought from the workshops and presented to the public as embodiments of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age. read more
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Microfactory is a clever concept from DaeKyung Ahn for cutting flat stock material (plastic, cardboard, paper, etc) with what seems to be a spindle, 4 servos, string and some type of controll device. It is really exciting to see a growing trend of products that bring manufacturing techineques to the home user. We hope it makes it to a comercial audience but until then take a look at the process info from the designer. via core77
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the Apo Mechanes studio and workshop to be held in Athens this summer.
Apo Mechanes is an intensive 2.5 week computational design studio dedicated to furthering the techniques and concepts of computation as means for the production of spatial environments. Apo Mechanes will investigate the modes of algorithmic processes in architectural design and fabrication. Apo Mechanes is derived from “από μηχανής”, literally “from the machine”, and refers to the machinic nature of the studio in both an abstract/diagrammatic and a literal fabrication sense. It will run from the 27th of July till the 11th of August.
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core.form-ula is pleased to announce that that the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 will be designed by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, of the leading Japanese practice SANAA. Over the next 3 weeks we will be featuring a series of projects by SANAA leading up to their lecture @ the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
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