Many of us drink Red Bull to get that high of liquid energy and caffeine to last us through the day. But in the end, where do all those cans go? Well with artists over this past year, they have been cut, molded and glued together – to form an arrangement of design pieces that [...]

No matter which film gets the Oscar for best visual effects at the Academy Awards this weekend, it’s a guaranteed win for Autodesk Inc. and NVIDIA Corp. The San Francisco Bay area companies provided the technology for all three of the category’s nominees: “Avatar,” “District 9” and “Star Trek.” As movies rely more on digital [...]

Readers who want to see the future direction of 3D design should take a peek at the technology behind James Cameron’s latest Stereoscopic 3D movie Avatar.
Visitors to Autodesk’s recent user conference, Autodesk University 2009, held in Las Vegas December 1-3, saw how elements of this exciting technology will be used in upcoming software releases for [...]

The IDSA National Education Council invited submissions for papers, presentations, panel discussions, and poster proposals for the DIY and Education Symposium – a new pre-conference experience designed specifically for design educators.
This one-day seminar will feature groundbreaking research from your fellow colleagues and insight into how DIY is affecting the education profession.
Educators, graduate students and industry [...]

Receiving a lot of recent press is Warren Berger’s latest book about how one should rethink the word design and reapply the term in a sense of business productivity that is valid and that works: the book is called Glimmer and the message is simple; the cover says it all: How Design can transform business, [...]

This morning IndustryWeek released a web article on their official website written by Robert “Buzz” Kross, who is the Senior Vice President of digital design solutions franchise Autodesk. In the article Kross discussed how many manufacturing companies, inventors, agencies and prototypers are all expediting their ideas, products and company designs faster and more efficiently than [...]

The new Autodesk Alias Sketch for AutoCAD Technology Preview is now available on Autodesk Labs. The Technology Preview adds fully integrated sketching, illustration, painting and manipulation capabilities directly into the AutoCAD workflow to further broaden the creative capabilities of AutoCAD software.

Alias Sketch for AutoCAD Technology Preview enables professional designers and artists in many industries to [...]

Based in UK, Ben Wilson Design also known as The Wilson Brothers have created a Formula 1 race car replica. You would want to know the brand of the car and it’s PUMA! Surprised? Don’t be. The replica has been made from the recycled materials and the materials are Puma shoe boxes.

It was a part [...]

While there has been a significant loss of repetitive manufacturing jobs, workers with engineering and high-tech skills remain in demand and are vital to keeping manufacturing and the economy going.
A recent survey conducted by Deloitte, Oracle and the Manufacturing Institute revealed that more than half of U.S. manufacturers reported significant shortages of “high-skilled workers.” But [...]

3D Systems is pleased to announce the new Trade-Up To ProJet Promotion. For a limited time, this new program credits end customers $15,000 toward the purchase of any new ProJetTM 3000 or new ProJetTM 5000 3-D Production System when they trade-in their existing
3-D printer or modeler. Qualifying trade-in equipment includes Stratasys, Dimension, Objet, Z-Corp and [...]