need some 3d models to complement your own product renderings? designconnected.com currently offers over 3000 models of designer furniture, lighting, and accessories. prices are mostly around $10-20, but they also have a growing list of free models.
need some 3d models to complement your own product renderings? designconnected.com currently offers over 3000 models of designer furniture, lighting, and accessories. prices are mostly around $10-20, but they also have a growing list of free models.
another useful grid generator. this time for illustrator and photoshop.
i like the option of specifying a ‘max width’, so that a grid is generated even if your chosen other widths don’t perfectly add up.
dassault systemes, parent company of solidworks, introduces a product called 3d natural sketch for catia. not too much information available at this time besides the press release and a short video. but the video looks pretty impressive. should be an interesting one to keep an eye out for. maybe this will also come to solidworks sooner or later?
a simple drag&drop interface allows to modify existing jewelry or to start from scratch at sheyna.com. the interface is smart enough to update the price as pieces are added, although it is not always clear whether your chosen pieces really will physically fit together. but worth checking out if you are interested in somehow unique pieces. use the promotion code sheyna10 for 10% off.
as part of their first major retrospective in france, the bouroullec brothers published an iPad app. images of more than 200 drawings, sketches, and models, provide great insight into their creative process.
what to say?
instead, here is steve jobs’ 2005 standford commencement address.
for the industrial designer looking for a budget cintiq including a pressure-sensitive pen, how about the lenovo thinkPad tablet as pointed out here?
(more expensive alternatives that are running windows instead of android are the asus slate ep121 as well as the upcoming samsung series 7 slate)
update 11/30/11: a full review of the lenovo has been posted now.
i’m a bit late on this, but: ponoko now allows 3d printed ceramic objects. after printing, these go through a fire and glazing process just like traditional ceramics, resulting in a smooth gloss. they are further food safe and heat resistant.
