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Intro to Sewn Book Binding Part 1: Pothi Books
Book binding is an easy entry to making. And while there are specialized book binding materials, this lesson doesn’t require any of them. In fact, if you wanted, you could pick up a pad of drawing paper and yarn at a dollar store, spending only a couple of bucks on enough materials to make a…
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The Cai Modeling Materials, MDes Thesis pt. 1
For my industrial design masters thesis at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I developed plastic-free modeling materials. Cai Board can serve as a replacement for extruded polystyrene foam. Cai Clay is an air-drying clay that is an alternative to plastic-based clays.
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Paper House
If we cannot raise manufacturing costs to ensure quality home goods and we cannot teach millions of people to suddenly take care of what they have, what if we instead filled our homes with paper? Unlike in the past, when families would live together their whole lives or gift newlyweds with heritage furniture, many people…
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A Haptic Blank
With the texture of water as inspiration, I created acoustic panels that not only absorb sound, but play sound when touched.
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