Category Archives: fabrication

material processes

the plastic resources for educators program has a great resource explaining various plastic forming processes in detailed drawings and animation, including extrusion, blow-molding, injection molding (including blown film, pictured), thermoforming, rotational molding as well as an overview of materials. great graphics.

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DIY dress

paco rabanne has been designing dresses that you make yourself from material swatches – anything from chocolate to leather and aluminum and plastic (top left to right) can be combined into clothing with the instructions, metal clasps and needle-nosed pliers included in each kit (bottom). they were sold during the 70s and 80s, and have […]

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DIY flipbook

noah fields from the medialab’s physical language group (run by john maeda) designed this program to generate flipbooks from animations, either by drawing them directly in this app, or by downloading this app to your mac or this app to your pc…

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