Glad to be featured in this article about the Maker Faire this weekend! via Make Designers are always pushing the boundaries with fashion and the place to see this happening is Maker Faire Bay Area. Every year there is always something interesting to see. People are continuously...
People have been asking how I model my jewelry. In the old days it was by hand with polymer clay. Now I mostly use digital clay, and my favorite software is Zbrush. Have a look at this magnetic locking clasp that I have been working...
What if you took the best traditions of handcraft--reverence for the made object, heartful engagement with material, and mastery of skill, and combined that with 3D printing and digital fabrication? What if artisanry is not lost to unthinking machinery? What if everything was beautiful, individual, and made to last? May...
This happened while I slept (and before and after). 12 hours on the Printrbot. After removing it from the support structure, I will mold the model with silicone and re-create it in bronze using metal clay. After seeing the beautiful finish the last buckle took...
I gave the buckle a torch patina. I can't get over how amazing the sky looks. [gallery type="rectangular" ids="2256"]...
[gallery type="rectangular" size="full" link="file" ids="2227,2231"] I've been working on this bronze belt buckle for about four months now. A while for a simple belt buckle perhaps, but this one proved not so simple. I had been looking for a way to improve my bas-relief sculpting skills...
[gallery type="rectangular" ids="2142,2144,2146,2143,2145"] Sometimes I work in Secret. Sometimes I have an open sharing process. For the past 18 months I have been secreted away learning new skills--figuring out how to use digital technology to make my design visions real. Things are starting to work out...
My book is out in paperback now, and I've been posting a lot of photos to its new facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/polymer.clay.beads (as well as to my Flickr feed, and the Portfolio page of diffendaffer.com). For the occasion, I've been digging deep into the archives, including...