Category: print and assemble
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Structural Silliness
I have a north facing garden, a brick shed with a leaky concrete roof, and limited places I can put a cold frame. A low shelter on top of the shed, waterproofing the shed, and providing a seed tray home in the spring is a recurring project for testing sillier ideas. I’ve tried to 3d…
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Colloquy exhibition review
The just closed exhibition at The Flourish, Cardiff Bay comes as a Welsh-Canadian collaboration exploring ‘creative narratives in metal’. Metals can be ductile, shiny, stamped, woven and stretched. They are, quite literally, flexible, and difficult enough to work with that art and manufacturing intersect. I’m looking at these not as an art gallery, but a…
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Scutoids for blockwork
Ok. Let’s define a scutoid. It’s a long tall shape, with a pentagon at one end, a hexagon at the other, and one corner snipped off. See the first image below. They are used in nature as a packing solution that interlocks and flexes in a way that hexagons can’t. Why are they interesting in…
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