This is pretty, isn’t it? It was made in 2006 by Stuart McFarlane using anodized aluminum. The pieces store safely in drawers on each side of the chess board and each piece has a neoprene base to prevent scratching on the chess board. I want one!
Blockhead Stem by cw&t
August 18, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
cw&t (consisting of design duo Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy) created this beautiful and simple stem for bicycles using a solid block of aluminum. It fits on a 1-1/8″ tube diameter and sells for $89. [via]
The neat and nice thing about this design is that cw&t have released the specifications under a Creative Commons license. So if you have your own metal mill you can download the spec sheet and build your own. Cool!
Wooden Ice Cream Scoop
July 4, 2009 @ 10:48 am
This wooden ice cream scoop is quite elegant. A good alternative to the Zeroll aluminum scoop
Price: $16.
New Coca-Cola aluminum bottle
November 13, 2008 @ 3:07 am
The Dieline recently named the newly redesigned Coca-Cola aluminum bottles as the Platinum award winner in their beverage design category. From the product images above and below, you can see that the bottles are sleek, simple and bold. The bottles, designed by Turner Duckworth, remain instantly recognizable as Coca-Cola products while still being very fresh on the eyes.
I had opportunity to come across these bottles for the very first time tonight and I was so impressed by how beautiful they look as shelf items. I should have bought a bottle just to keep. I might go out and search for a bottle tomorrow.
BattleZone Bible: the Word protected in aluminum casing
November 9, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
As I was writing the entry for the Bible I recently received as a gift from my brother, I was having a look at the other Bibles available from Crossway and I saw this BattleZone Bible available for $29.99. The Bible is fully encased in a brushed-aluminum casing ensuring that the contents are well protected from the elements and any other stupidity that it may encounter.
If you don’t like the brushed aluminum look above, you can buy the BattleZone weathered metal Bible
Apple’s unibody manufacturing process
October 14, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
Today’s big announcement from the Apple headquarters was the new manufacturing process behind the new MacBook, MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Air. Traditionally, laptop computers were manufactured and assembled using layers of materials that were pressed together or screwed together in place. While this process has served us relatively well so far, it really hindered the progress of laptop computer designs because you couldn’t make a thin enough laptop without sacrificing durability (and vice versa).
Now, Apple has taken the innovative manufacturing process behind their unibody structure in the MacBook Air and put it to good use in the rest of the Apple laptop line. All of the laptop computers made by Apple as of today are cut and molded from a single large piece of aluminum (or “aluminium” as Jony Ive would say).
Anyway, forget all the other hoopla about new technologies and innovations in the new laptops and have a look at the awesome MacBook video that Apple has put online. It shows the entire unibody manufacturing process (sometimes in wonderful slow-motion). I’ve embedded the video below, but the quality is a lot better on the Apple website.
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