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Mashup

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 Summer Chilling Captures the essence of summer with a cool drink and pool floaties.  https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:239247/files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2120999/files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2380166/files Dual Wielder Highlights the animal's inner beast. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:148377/files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:488233/files Retro Racer The thrill of spinning a track. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3547258/files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2946483/files Busy Bees Corporate workers in comparison to worker bees. Thing files for Modern Office Space - Furniture / Doll House / Architecture Furnishing by gametree3d - Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1887176/files Beakers remixed by Skullduggery - Thingiverse A Load of Burden Animals carrying the burden of human trash. 亀(Turtle)3Dデータ by YahooJAPAN - Thingiverse Trash Can with Moving Wheels by Avetino - Thingiverse

Born From the Past

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       The camera is a beautiful demonstration of how designs adapt and grow from ideas from the past. Karim Rashid used the camera as an example of how designs tend to follow the original form. The function of its rectangular shape, for example, was to allow space for the film.  However, Rashid's statement about digital cameras and how they don't need film anymore made me question myself. How I would feel if I came across something that I'm so familiar with, like a digital camera, that still has the same function but drastically looks different. Would I find it more appealing, or hate it?      That also made me question why designers tend to just work around the original form. Is it because it's easier to just make small changes? Are they worried about how the mass will react to it?     Yet there are many designers who push and bend what people find objectively normal and aesthetically pleasing. They may succeed or they may fail. But th...

Castle model with Tinkercad

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