Fabienne Serriere, a skilled hardware hacker and knitter who lives in Seattle, has programmed her KnitYak knitting machine to create various patterns via algorithms. She mastered this skill after six months of experimenting, and can now create beautiful, elaborate designs with her 30-year old knitting machine. She uploads the knitting patterns to her machine and writes each processing script that gives her various pattern results, …
Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of design studio Nervous Systems have employed an algorithm that mimics the growth patterns in flowers to create a line of 3D-printed jewelry. The project, called Floraform, draws inspiration from the way the flower petals push their growth to the very edge of each petal, eventually creating complex ruffles and patterns in the process. The line of ethereal bracelets, necklaces …
When first seeing GeMo for the first time, it’s difficult to not be intrigued: there is a purity to the vase design, but there’s something wrong. They aren’t all the same—similar, but not the same. GeMo (derived from “genetically modified”) is a Kickstarter project from London-based architectural designers Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy, who will be creating an army of multi-textured GeMos for display in …
