Category Archives: design

Birdfeeder Design and a Good Use of Website Animation

I’m a fan of bird­feed­ers and clever prod­uct design. The Archi­tec­t’s Bird­feed­er, designed by Doug Patt Pratt, is good look­ing and an intrigu­ing engi­neer­ing solu­tion. The key fea­ture — it ships like flat-pack fur­ni­ture but bet­ter because it goes togeth­er with­out that nasty cheap lit­tle hex wrench thing. The ani­ma­tion of the assem­bly of the bird­feed­er on … 

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Trivia I Need

ColourLovers post­ed a list of all 120 Cray­ola cray­on col­ors and their (approx­i­mate) hex and RGB codes. The list was com­plied by Aaron at Col​orSchemer​.com. I am now going to waste sev­er­al hours cre­at­ing a cus­tom Pho­to­shop palette of these col­ors. Sigh. BTW When did the Cray­ola site change so much? I remem­ber it as … 

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WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.

I’m tak­ing Jew­el­ry and Met­al­smithing 1 at the Pratt Fine Arts Cen­ter. Our first project is a ring. The top is made of a piece of pierced cop­per sol­dered to a half dome. Below are pic­tures of the two tops that I made last week. The pat­tern is gluesd on with rub­ber cement and then … 

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WIP — Pierced Copper Ring

Progress has been made on the ring. A flat piece of cop­per was ham­mered and then cut into a cir­cle. That cir­cle was dapped into a dome shape. The the tree bit was sol­dered onto the domed bit, mak­ing a hol­low orna­ment A chunk of 12 gauge half round ster­ling wire was made into a ring band. The … 

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 23

From Minot, ND to Glas­gow, MT. Cool, over­cast. It did­n’t actu­al­ly rain but it was very threat­en­ing. Hwy 2 is often an inter­est­ing road in that it varies between two-lane and new­ly divid­ed four-lane. This occa­sion­al­ly leads to con­fus­ing lane strip­ing on the por­tion that used to be two-lane.  I stopped at the Wal-Mart in … 

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