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3Doodler 

In case you missed this the past couple of days, an impressive handheld 3D printing pen, allowing to draw in three dimensions. Video embedded below:

Have you ever just wished you could lift your pen off the paper and see your drawing become a real three dimensional object? Well now you can!

3Doodler is the world’s first and only 3D Printing Pen. Using ABS plastic (the material used by many 3D printers), 3Doodler draws in the air or on surfaces. It’s compact and easy to use, and requires no software or computers. You just plug it into a power socket and can start drawing anything within minutes.

Oh, and it’s also the most affordable way to 3D print… by a looong way! With 3Doodler we’re making fun 3D creation accessible to everyone.

You can find out more at the project’s Kickstarter page here

Clouds 

A Kickstarter funding project to create an interactive documentary of contemporary computer artists:

Over the last year we have captured interviews with over 30 new media artists, curators, designers, and critics, using a new 3D cinema format called RGBD. CLOUDS presents a generative portrait of this digital arts community in a videogame-like environment. The artists inhabit a shared space with their code-based creations, allowing you to follow your curiosity through a network of stories. What does it feel like to think with code? How can emerging technologies enable us to actualize our dreams? How has online sharing transformed the way artists collaborate?

More about this interesting project can be found at it’s Kickstarter page here

HOLO Magazine 

Kickstarter project to fund publishing of premium-quality Arts + Tech magazine, by the people behind the excellent Creative Applications site:

HOLO is a new magazine that explores the convergence of art, science and technology, brought to you by the team at CreativeApplications.Net (CAN). An extension to one of the most authoritative art and technology blogs, HOLO is dedicated to rich, detailed stories that demand time and attention. With HOLO we are committed to telling these stories – attentively and expertly – in a patient, spacious medium that does them justice.

Published twice per year, each issue of HOLO will be comprised of 150-200 pages and provide intimate views into fascinating studios, workshops, galleries and institutions around the world, seen through the eyes of stellar photographers and talented writers. The pace, depth and sensibility of print allows us to invest heavily in each story, and craft months of research, travels and conversations into nuanced portraits you won’t find anywhere else. In addition to extensive artist features, each issue will contextualize current trends and topics in visual essays, sweeping surveys, theory, opinion and experimental formats big and small. Each issue’s carefully curated cast of interdisciplinary artists, scientists, technologists and toolmakers will help us map exciting new territory that doesn’t need to be covered faster, but captured better.

You can find out more at the project’s Kickstarter page here

LA Game Space - Kickstarter 

Ambitious yet exciting project looking for funding - a creative gaming Bauhaus to educate, develop and push the video game into a forward thinking artform:

Game design has always featured creativity and experimentation, from the earliest pioneers to the recent rise of independent creators.  And yet, we have barely begun to explore the potential of video games.

Let’s create a place for exploring that potential. A place for game innovation, education, and exhibition, where all of us can play and make and study and showcase games.  A place where we will rediscover what games have been, and re-imagine what games can be.

Join us in founding LA Game Space!

You can find out more at the project’s Kickstarter page here

ROM 

Kickstarter project to fund a new publisher of high-end design books of videogame history, debuting with a book on the great Sensible Software:

Sensible Software 1986–1999 from Darren Wall on Vimeo.

The definitive biography of Sensible Software, one of the world’s most pioneering and best-loved games companies, and the flagship title for Read-Only Memory, a new publishing company specialising in high-quality video game products. 

Sensible Software 1986–1999 will tell the story of Sensible through interviews and anecdotes from those who were there – including Jon Hare and the Sensible team – and a feast of visuals celebrating the company’s idiosyncratic, groundbreaking style.

With your support, we want to publish the ultimate retrospective; immaculately designed and brilliantly written.

More Here

UBI 

Kickstarter-funded project to bring ubiquitous computing into the home via voice-activation.

The Ubi is an always-on voice-activated computer ready to help. Just plug it in, talk to it and it’ll help you connect with your world.

Ubi is a voice-activated computer that plugs into a wall outlet. You talk to the Ubi and it talks back. It directly connects to the Internet through wifi.

We believe people want to do things when they’re at home - they clean, they fold laundry, they cook, they eat, they spend time with loved ones. These are all things that (for the most part) take up use of our arms and hands. When we’re at home, we’d rather use our limbs for other activities than typing, scrolling, or swiping.

Ubi is short for ubiquitous computer because it’s always on, always listening, always ready to help. It can scribe, listen, analyze. Ubi will either talk back to you the information you seek or indicate information through multi-color lights.

More at Kickstarter here

The Humble Velocipede 

Kickstarter project to produce small handmade kinetic art / walking machines made from bamboo - video embedded below: 

The Humble Velocipede is a small-scale evolution of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest kinetic sculpture. This meditative toy is designed to scuttle over countertops and coffee tables. Its stride is human powered, but the Velocipede really holds its own on shallow inclines.  

This project started when we built a life-size plywood Strandbeest. The big machine was gorgeous, but bulky and inconvenient to transport. Curious about what it would look like as a toy, we built one just for fun. It turned out better than any of us expected, so we refined our design for production. Instead of shrinking down Jansen’s original, we recast that organic appeal for a domestic space. We think we’ve made a playful desktop sprite that is as captivating around the house as Jansen’s are on the beach. 

The walking mechanism behind the toy is inherently complex. With production in mind, we made our design as simple as possible …

More Here

Summer Camp by Kayla Mattes 

Awhile ago, I posted some pieces of fashion inspired by both the internet and the 90s by Kayla Mattes, work that came about before high profile, well-established designers took to the runways this year.

The designer is now running a Kickstarter campaign for a knitted jewellery line, inspired by the 90s craze, and have a geometric, neon aesthetic:

The collection grew from a piece in my RISD thesis print/knitwear collection ‘NEO-90ies’, that was partially constructed from plastic lanyard/gimp/boondoggle/scoubidou, or whatever you prefer to call it!

… the entire collection embodied the nostalgia associated with the kitschy and artificial nature of the toys, food, media, and technology of kid-culture in the 1990’s.

After making the NEO-90ies collection, I still found myself intrigued with this almost dead craft trend. I used to have a box where I kept my lanyards and that is pretty much where they stayed.

Since then I’ve been integrating this kitschy craft hobby in my textiles practice. When paired with knitted elements “boondoggle/gimp/lanyard” is translated into something entirely new!

The SUMMER CAMP collection both manipulates and pays homage to the lanyard braiding phenomenon, resulting in a collection of contemporary and unconventional geometric necklaces.

You can find the Kickstarter project page here

Kayla’s Tumblr blog can be found here

3TONE

3D Halftone project on Kickstarter, creates halftone patterns with drilling to create an image:

3Tones are a 3 dimensional representation of a halftone photograph. 3Tones are a combination of abstract art and photography.  When viewed up close, you see an amazing piece of abstract art.  Take a couple steps back and your perception shifts from viewing abstract piece of art to your chosen photograph. 

The process of creating 3Tones is a series of mathematical manipulations based on the gray-scale values of your photograph to create the CNC code that drill the holes to the calculated depths.

More at Kickstarter here