Category Archives: Design

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Musician and inventor Martin Molin (creator of the Musical Marble Machine) demonstrates two new instruments he’s created: a complex papertape-driven music box and a type of stringed theremin he calls a ‘modulin’.

The haunting tune, All Was Well, is his too.

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A fascinating trawl through the typography and design of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner by Dave Addey.

READ ON: Blade Runner (Typeset In the Future)

And if that appealed to you, he does a similar number on Ridley Scott’s Alien.

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Behold: Blackbird -a  battery-powered automotive rig created by London based visual effects company The Mill.

A fully-adjustable wheelbase, track width, and suspension allows filmmakers to shoot car commercials without actual cars. The product chassis, in whatever required variant, colour or configuration, is superimposed over the Blackbird in post production via CGI.

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The Summer Mewgaroo Hoodie by Japanese clothier, Inhabitat: suitable for cats up to 7kg with pom-poms, snag-resistant texture and an insert for an ice pack, should your passenger become overheated.

Available from Amazon Japan but not, as yet, for international shipping.

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