3D Printed Bikini

Naked beer, sustainable cremation, 3D-printed bikinis and more in our weekly look at the web

Travis Kochel takes advantage of OpenType in a new typeface called FF Chartwell, which is designed to produce simple and beautiful graphs for presentations. Creating one is as easy as defining a sequence of numbers, coloring them and then morphing the selection into pie, line and column charts for an aesthetically refined solution.

Green Cremation

Naked beer, sustainable cremation, 3D-printed bikinis and more in our weekly look at the web

Joining chocolate and jewelry as a viable product of 3D printing is Continuum Fashion’s N12 bikini. Thousands of circular plates connected with springs ensure a comfortable and flexible fit, the nylon construction holds up well in the water and best of all, you can tailor the design to exactly your size.

Concrete

The material's many forms explored in a beautiful monograph from Phaidon

From the Pantheon to the Hoover Dam, concrete has literally shaped the civilized world as we know it. Although once referred to as “the cheapest (and ugliest) thing in the building world” by Frank Lloyd Wright, concrete’s adaptive properties have propelled it to the forefront of many design movements from brutalism to modernism, being used in some of the most monumental structures the modern world …