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Reader Submitted: A Student's Take on Multi-Functional Furniture for the Ever-Evolving Millennial 

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Designed for the millennial generation, Cilla encapsulates multi-use, through surface and storage. I wanted to change the way we look at common storage—the way it opens and the way it hides things. Cilla is the design outcome of this iterative research, an interpretation of visual and physical storage space for the millennial consumer. It's both masculine and feminine, functional and personal. And a thoughtful answer to multi-functional furniture and storage.

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A Cohesive Line of Cuisinart Products Focused on Intuitive Operability

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Beginning with the design of the CBT500 Blender in 2002, Big Bang has worked closely with Cuisinart to define, implement and evolve their visual brand language on over 60 kitchen electric products ranging from the category leading Griddler™ to the prosumer, Elite™ line. Leveraging signature forms, intuitive operability and critical attention to materials, finishes and manufacturability, Big Bang has helped Cuisinart maintain their position in the hearts of meal makers everywhere.

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POV from the Cockpit of an Autonomous Race Car, a 3,000 Year Old Prosthetic Toe and the Process of Restoring Vintage Hot Wheels Cars

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The Core77 team spends time combing through the news so you don't have to. Here's a weekly roundup of our favorite finds from the World Wide Web:

Check out YouTube channel "Bare Metal HW" - he restores vintage Hot Wheels cars.

"Craftsman Tools Steals Small Inventors Wrench Idea, and Loses David vs. Goliath $6 Million Patent Case."

Here's your new winter hobby. (Knit first, make soup later).

POV from the cockpit of an autonomous race car.

Less stubbed toes, more painful running experience

Did their blinding iconic hotness ever really dim?

7 deadly sins as apps.

Smart Purchases: A summer staple.

Gaze into the eyes of an AI created human. It's uncomfortable.

"A prime example of high-rent blight, a symptom of late-stage gentrification."

At what point will prototype camouflage just become an available color option for new cars?
I'm glad we are heading into summer so this craze has some time to cool down before the next school year…
This week in google doodles: It's ya boi OTTO.

Hot Tip: Check out more blazin' hot Internet finds on our Twitter and Instagram pages.

Space Saving, Eco-Conscious Gear for Campers & Road Trippers

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The official first day of summer was this week, and with that begins plans for epic outdoor adventures. To help jumpstart your planning, we've compiled a list some of our favorite items that camping objects that feel essential rather than overdone and help make sure you conduct your camping or road trip in the most sustainable way possible. 

An Inflatable Lantern Powered by the Sun

There's nothing about this lamp that's not to like—for one, it's inflatable so it can be packed away easily into your backpack. It's also solar powered and lasts up to 12 hours on one charge. Lastly, it's waterproof, so it can also float on water! We're daydreaming about night swimming in a quiet lake with these as we speak...

A Tech-Friendly Wood Burning Camp Stove

The Biolite Wood Burning Stove is unique in that it uses kindling as opposed to butane to fire up your food, and the other bonus (besides being as eco-conscious as you are) is it can also charge your phone if needed. We see you glampers out there.

The World's Smallest "Washing Machine"

This one's for campers and road-trippers alike: the Scrubba Portable Laundry Bag. You simply throw your clothes in with some water and soap, rustle the bag around and voila! Freshly washed clothes (for campers, just make sure you use eco-friendly camping soap and don't drain into waterways!) 

ButtValet 100% Biodegradable Cleansing Wipes

We just can't resist a product with as rich of a name as "ButtValet". 

Hydrapak Collapsible Water Bottle

How do you fit a 1 liter water bottle in your pocket? With a Hydrapak Stash Water Bottle, which collapses to a quarter of its size, allowing you to save space and all those disposable plastic water bottles you were thinking of bringing on your camping excursion.

A Small but Powerful Water Filter

You should always have at least 2 liters of clean water on hand during a short camping trip, but this super-tiny water filtration straw can ensure you're getting safe sips from pure water sources if you ever find yourself needing more. 

A Space-Saving Fly Fishing Kit

For the impeccably-dressed camper in your life with a love for fishing, there's this impressively compact collaboration fishing pole and hip pack by Topo Designs and Tenkara Rod Co. Let them catch your dinner for the night!

A Camping Pot Made of Silicone?

This pot solves your issue of finding a place for your enormous cooking pan in your pack. With a body made of collapsible food-grade silicone and an aluminum base, the design of this is fantastic for several reasons: it packs up compactly and easily, the silicone helps prevent heat burns on skin, and the polycarbonate lid allows for easy straining.

Happy summer adventuring!

If you buy any of these products through our links, Core77 may receive a small percentage of the sale. But trust us—anything we don't truly love ain't allowed on this list.

Mid Century Modern Find of the Week: Candy-Striped Model 97 Rocker

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This gorgeous Danish modern rocker was designed by Holger Georg Jensen for Tønder Møbelværk in 1958. 

This piece is known as Model 97, and these surface occasionally, but this particular piece is a bit special as it retains its colorful original candy striped wool upholstery.

There is not much known about this designer, and his pieces are commonly attributed to Søren Georg Jensen, but most of (Holger) Jensen's work was done for a company called Kubus in the early- to mid-1960s.

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These "Mid Century Modern Find of the Week" posts are provided courtesy of Mid Century Møbler, which specializes in importing vintage Danish Modern and authentic Mid Century furniture from the 1950s and 1960s.


Design Job: Design Experiences People will Never Forget as Local Projects' Art Director in New York, NY

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We have a roster of fantastic projects in front of us and are looking for a passionate Art Director who can lead the Visual Design point of view for our highly interactive public space projects. As a member of the Visual Experience Department, Art Directors are responsible for developing and executing impactful design solutions for a diverse range of interdisciplinary projects and for mentoring junior and intermediate designers.

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So THIS is What "Mixed Reality" Can Do

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VR, AR, MR: It seems certain our future will be filled with [something]-reality, and my guess is that augmented reality will have the most practical applications. In the service of pure art, however, creative studio Theoriz is pushing the boundaries of MR, or mixed reality, by combining VR tracking technologies with real-time interactive projection mapping. Here's what their team of engineers and visual artists have collaborated to create:

"There is no post-production on this video," Theoriz writes. All of what you saw happened in real time.

As mentioned, Theoriz's endeavors are in the service of art and entertainment. Just out of curiosity, can any of you think of a practical application for technology like this?


Reader Submitted: A 3D Printed Alternative to Traditional Tattoos

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Project "Metamorphosis" explores the feasibility of using 3D printing technology to develop a tattoo design which is not only used for decorative purposes, but engages the tactile sense as well. The concept of a three-dimensional "tattoo" is based on the possibility to transform or "grow" any 2D design into a 3D object using computer software.

A 3D printed "tattoo" is a three-dimensional, physical representation of a certain 2D design. The end result is a bespoke piece of body decoration which is flexible and can be easily applied to the surface of skin using bio-friendly, silicone based adhesives. The positive relief effect achieved after application communicates essential design information through both visual and tactile stimulation.

The intent of this project was to consider how technological developments could impact populations of people within construct social scenarios. This led to the introduction of a unique and innovative design service which offers consumers bespoke products for body modification whose final form is "open" and liable to change both physically and digitally. This project and brand were developed as a final year assignment for the BA (Hons) Product Design course at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.

3D printing custom body decoration is a less permanent and non-invasive alternative to conventional tattoos, offering a new level of opportunities for self-expression and transformation of the human form.

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A Bodycam Designed for Use in the Field

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The Zepcam professional bodycam is a body-worn video camera for professional use. The small, rugged and lightweight camera is capable of filming day and night. It enables individuals, for instance working in law enforcement, public transport or industry, to record important events. The camera comes with a docking station for charging and data transfer.

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Three Friends, One Designer Have Redesigned a Modern Trans Am—and It's In Production

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To a certain generation, the Pontiac Trans Am was the muscle car that was the envy of the neighborhood kids. As a performance package for the Firebird, the Trans Am was fast, mean, brawny. It turned heads every time one roared down the block.

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Pontiac went bust in '09, and they hadn't made a Firebird since '02 anyway. But a company called Trans Am Depot, started by three friends (Jim Dowling, Tod Warmack and Scott Warmack) has been fixing up old Trans Ams and reselling them since 2006.

At a car show in 2007, the TAD guys ran into designer Kevin Morgan, a Trans Am enthusiast who had produced fanciful renderings of what a resurrected version would look like. TAD subsequently licensed the Trans Am rights and collaborated with Morgan to actually build one.

Today TAD produces several models, starting with brand-new Camaro platforms, stripping them down and fabricating their own design of the bodies, interiors, lights, grills and bumpers. Modern-day engines and mechanicals are swapped in. 

The company has been successful enough that they've now upped their game and are producing an absurdly powerful, 1,000 horsepower Trans Am Super Duty:

All of TAD's cars are built in Tallahassee, Florida. As for how much the Super Duty costs, well, if you have to ask….

See Also:

Pontiac photo retrospective: Every year from 1948 to 1971


Fillets: When to Use 'Em, When to Lose 'Em

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Fillets are one of those design features for which there seems to be no middle ground, or at least not one that is widely known. Either a part is devoid of them, and most or all edges are well-defined, or the part's designer decided to take the opposite route, and every single edge and corner is rounded with some size of fillet radius.

Fillets can be useful in the design world, especially when parts are destined for CNC machining, which will be our primary assumption in the following examples. This article will expose the cases in which fillets are a bad idea, a good idea, and absolutely necessary (hint: corner fillets), so you can start tweaking your designs to be more cost-effective and more readily manufacturable.

Where You Don't Need Fillets

Before talking about use cases for fillets, it's easiest to rule out a few places where you don't need them, because too much of something is never a good thing.

3D Printed Parts

Because 3D printing is an additive process, there's no need to design a part assuming a tool will need to move around it and remove material, and a designer has much more freedom to utilize intricate and unusual geometries. Fillets are sometimes added for stress relief in areas of sharp geometry changes, but beyond that, there is little need for them. Pockets and internal features on printed parts can be angular or sharp-cornered, and you can even have cavities that are completely enclosed by surrounding material!

This 3D printed part is beautifully intricate, but would be impossible to machine as-is.

Also, keep in mind that if you'll eventually be moving away from 3D printing towards another process, such as machining, it's essential you start planning for the limitations of that process early on, to save time and money down the road.

Bottom Edges

Filleting the bottom edges of pockets, walls, or boss features can be used to improve aesthetics of a part or add strength to features (by reducing stress concentrations). However, fillets in these locations require the use of a ball endmill and will always make your part more expensive than square-bottomed features. This is because programming such a geometry usually requires 3D machining operations (which take longer to dial in). Also, ball endmills are by nature more fragile than their square counterparts and must machine at a much slower rate.

Unless you're designing a skatepark or avoiding stress concentrations, there is little reason for fillets such as these.

On a related note, filleting the bottom edge of a part will create the need for another fixturing setup, which will also increase a part's production price.

This part is perfectly machinable, but the highlighted fillet on the bottom edge requires the part be flipped over to machine, which adds significant cost at low quantities.

Where Fillets Can Be Helpful

This next section will provide a few examples where fillets may come in handy, despite not being needed. Remember, however, that fillets on a CNC part add programming and machine time— and therefore cost.

Cosmetic Face Edges

When designing a part with cosmetic faces, filleting the edges of these areas can be a nice way to give your part the appearance that its faces blend seamlessly together, rather than transitioning harshly.

Edge Softening

Adding fillets can prevent injuries from sharp edges if your parts will be handled frequently, especially if they are cut from metal. It is standard practice for machinists to hand break all sharp edges anyway, so unless you adore perfectly radiused edges, or your parts have ergonomic features with radiused areas, it might be best to refrain from doing this to save a buck or two.

This handle has had its edges filleted to improve ergonomics

Pin/Fastener Insertion

Getting a dowel pin to engage with a press fit hole or a fastener to align with its female threaded mate can be tricky if the fit is tight. Usually, a small chamfer (read: bevel) is added around the edge of the hole to aid in insertion, although a fillet can also help if desired.

The fillet on the hole and chamfer on the pin allows for easier assembly.

Where fillets are absolutely necessary

This final section explores three cases in which fillets are required in order for a part to be CNC machinable.

Internal Edges Between Vertical Walls

To cut via high-speed rotation, all CNC tooling is round and axially symmetric, so cutting a square corner between two vertical walls is literally impossible. In fact, any edge where two vertical walls meet at an angle less than 180° requires fillet addition. This is the most common piece of DFM feedback we have to give here at Fictiv about parts destined for CNC.

This pocket has all internal edges filleted properly and is perfectly machinable.

Internal Edges Between Angled/Organic Surfaces

Similar to the first case in this section, edges between angled or organic surfaces with less than 180° between them also need fillets. If these edges aren't perfectly vertical, they'll be cut with a ball endmill, and the radius of that tool is the smallest fillet size that can be left between the surfaces.

Vertical Wall + Angled/Curved/Organic Surface

In a combination of the first and second cases, you'll need to include fillets when a vertical wall on your part meets with an angled, curved, or organic surface below it. This one can be a bit tricky to reason at first, but if you picture a square or ball endmill cutting flush along a wall, you can visualize how there will always be material remaining between the wall and the surface below, unless that surface is perfectly flat and normal to the tool.

The only way to machine these slopes is to leave material behind at a selected radius size. In this case, 3.2mm fillets are left by a ¼" (3.175mm) ball endmill.

Fictiv Standards

Now that you understand the general cases for and against fillet use, there are two main standards to adhere to if you'll be producing parts through the Fictiv platform.

Minimum Fillet Size

The smallest milling tool our vendors stock by default is a 1/32" endmill (square and ball). This is just under 0.8mm in diameter, meaning the smallest fillet it can create is 0.4mm.

Fillet Size vs. Depth of Cut

Endmills come in lengths of standard multiples of their diameter, but there's a limit to the obtainable length, due to tool vibration and chatter past a certain ratio. Material also plays a role here—it is much easier to cut a deep pocket into a plastic than into a harder material, such as steel. What this means for fillets is that they need to be a certain size, depending on how deep a cut is needed to make the feature on which they're included. Fictiv's max depth of cuts are as follows:

Steels: 5X tool diameter (10X fillet size)
Plastics/aluminum: 10X tool diameter (20X fillet size)

Overall, we recommend sticking to 3-5X tool diameter max, to the avoid sticker shock caused by excessive machine time.

Main Takeaways

Hopefully, these pointers have helped clarify the world of fillets for you. Especially in the case of CNC machining, knowing when and when not to use these features is absolutely critical: It can save you time and back-and-forth with your manufacturer, increase part functionality, and result in a much cheaper part overall. Even in cases when you're not currently designing for machining, it's still a good idea to follow these guidelines, in case you ever decide to. Now that you're equipped with the proper knowledge, share it with friends and fillet away!

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How to See Clearly Underwater Without Wearing Googles

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Yes, this is one of those silly, simple things you see on the internet and think "Man I've gotta try that." YouTuber MicBergsma shows you what he does "when I don't have goggles with me [but want] to see something under the water:"


Design Job: Help Evolve a Secret Adobe Project as their UX Designer in San Fransisco, CA

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A team within Adobe is looking for a UX designer who can help us evolve a project supporting, connecting and amplifying a global community of emerging artists who are using creativity as a force for positive impact This is a special role, requiring big-picture thinking. You’ll take a deep look at the workflows that drive the creative process.

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Rethinking a Product We'd Rather Not Think About

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I'd be happy not to know what a drum machine is, but I do because I've watched the rooter guy use one to unclog our sewer line. What is a drum machine? It's a large motorized version of the hand snake a homeowner might use to clear the drain from a sink or other small fixture.

Milwaukee Tool recently unveiled its first drum machine—actually, a sectional drum machine because its cable can be lengthened by joining it to another. I wouldn't normally be interested in such a machine but I am because this one is a complete rethinking of a mature product whose deficiencies have been known and accepted for years.

Conventional drum machines are used to clear long runs of 3-inch and larger drain lines. They typically weigh 70-plus pounds and have wheels to make them easier to transport.  But it's difficult to get them up and down stairs and haul them in and out of buildings without creating a mess—dirt tracked in on the wheels and filth that drips from the cable.

This is the machine without the drum in place.

Milwaukee's M18 FUEL Sectional Drum Machine is powered by an 18-volt tool battery and is the first of its kind not to require a cord. It weighs 50 pounds with the heaviest cable and can be split in two for transport.

Built-in straps allow the machine to carried in and out of the building like a backpack while the drum is carried by a handle. 

Straps make it possible to carry the machine like a backpack.
The drum has a built-in carry handle and is easily swapped for drums containing different sizes and types of cable. The pulley on back will engage with the drive belt of the machine.

When the drain tech arrives at the work area the drum is rejoined to the machine by dropping it into a sort of cradle and locking it in place with a pair of suitcase style latches. Should a different size or type of cable be required  a drum containing it can be easily swapped in. 

The cable is enclosed so unless someone tips the machine it's unlikely to dribble the dreaded "poo stew" on the floor. After clearing the drain the housing surrounding the drum can be opened, cleaned with a hose, and left to dry.

I won't go into the specs because they won't matter to you unless you're a drain tech or plumber. 

What impresses me most about this product is how different it is from every drain cleaning machine that came before; it's cordless, easy-to-transport, and flexible—because drums containing different types of cable can be swapped in as needed. 

The M18 FUEL Sectional Drum Machine (model 2775) is expected to launch in November 2017. 

The video below was shot by the folks from Coptool at a presentation I attended at a recent Milwaukee media event.

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Questioning Implicit Linearity

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"I don't think you can design anything just by absorbing information and then hoping to synthesise it into a solution. What you need to know about the problem only becomes apparent as you're trying to solve it." Richard MacCormac. The argument here is a simple one, but one which I believe has been swept under the design practice rug for quite some time.

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How to Make a Table That Folds Into a Bookcase

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It's always fun to watch someone design out loud. Here Izzy Swan creates a folding table that folds into a storage unit, and he builds it primarily out of plywood scraps. This seems like it'd be useful for college kids or the itinerant, as moving a table is typically a pain in the neck—but here the table could actually be used like boxes to carry other stuff.


Reader Submitted: A Steel Sculpture Inflated like a Balloon for Stability and Lightness 

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NAWA is an ultralight, durable sculpture made up of 35 steel arches, making an open gate through which anyone can walk freely. Its bionic form and polished surface reflecting its surroundings creates the effect of a naturally growing sculpture with a constantly changing look throughout the day.

The sculpture is a part of the European Capital of Culture 2016 celebrations, whose main slogan is “metamorphoses of culture”, i.e. shifts occurring in the domain of culture, communities and the city itself.

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Design Competition: What Can You Create Using One Bag of Concrete?

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Using the names of materials as adjectives can be pejorative: "He gave a wooden performance," "These people are so plastic." But when your boss says s/he wants "concrete results," it implies rigor and success.

Concrete can be an unforgiving material that requires careful design, but the reward is an object that will endure. For those of you up to the task, Quikrete is sponsoring a One Bag design competition where they want to see what you can create using just a single bag of their product (of any mix).

First prize is $2,500, with $1,500 and $500 serving as second and third prizes. The deadline is July 9th, so you've got a little under two weeks to get cracking. Er, to get going.

Rules and regulations, as well as photos of last year's winning objects for reference, are here.


This Seesaw Inspired Bench Takes Two to Tango

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LUNAR cofounders Jeff Smith and Gerard Furbershaw sought to create a sculpturally oriented bench that provided social interaction opportunities for passersby in outdoor public places and museum and gallery exhibition spaces. People have an innate desire to engage, interact and play, yet there are a limited number of public spaces that enable this. Smith and Furbershaw looked to the playground seesaw for inspiration, as most people have experienced this form of interactive play as children. 

They believed that leveraging the seesaw and enhancing it with a sophisticated design would lead to a compelling experience for people visiting outdoor public places and museum and gallery spaces. Although it is possible to engage in solo play, interacting with another person or persons is oftentimes more rewarding. With that in mind, they named the bench 2toTango after the phrase, "it takes two to tango."

Figure 1: 2ToTango in a public square

Smith and Furbershaw sought to create a sense of magic in how 2ToTango functioned, as if it as if it teeter-tottered about its sharp visual fulcrum corners although that motion would actually be driven by an internal mechanism. The requirement was for the bench to remain horizontal when no one sat on it. When a person sat on one side of it, 2ToTango needed to descend slowly towards the floor or ground and stop within two inches of it to prevent the bench's end corners from being damaged and to ensure it didn't pinch people's feet. When that person left the bench, it needed to return slowly to its horizontal position. If one or two or people sat on both sides at the same time, the bench was to teeter-totter in relation to where they sat and where they might move, depending upon whether and how they chose to interact with each other.

Figure 2: 2ToTango tilted to the side the person is sitting on it.
Figure 3: 2ToTango in a horizontal state of balance with the lighter person on the left farther away from the fulcrum than the heavier person the right.

LUNAR's Engineering Team was tasked with creating a mechanism that achieved the desired motion. Mechanical engineer Bob Lane developed and refined the final mechanism design. It relies on return springs and pneumatic cylinders. When no one is sitting on 2ToTango, return springs keep the bench in a horizontal position. If a person sits on one side of the bench, that side lowers slowly, dampened by the pneumatic cylinder's inlet flow control valve on that side (see Figure 2). If another person sits on the other side, the bench teeter-totters in relation to where they sit and where they might move, depending upon whether and how they choose to interact with each other (see Figures 3 and 5). If both people leave 2toTango, the return springs bring it back to a horizontal state of balance (see Figure 1).

2toTango is fabricated as an 8 foot long welded and ground aluminum monocoque structural skin. A steel base plate embedded into the floor connects to an internal fame. The frame connects the teeter-totter's pivot, the two internal pneumatic cylinders and the two return springs. The outside ends of the pneumatic cylinders and return springs are affixed to the bench's structural skin via structural ribs. Tubing between the pneumatic cylinders maintains equal pressure between them.

Figure 4: Mechanism layout

This teeter-totter design engenders a number of ways of engaging, from beholding its beauty and not interacting with it physically to just sitting, play, and psychological gamesmanship.

Solo State

2ToTango's internal mechanism keeps it horizontal when not in use. When a person sits on either the left or right side, the bench descends slowly to within two inches of the floor (See Figure 2).

Cooperation State

One or more persons sit on both sides of the bench perpendicular to its axis, peripherally aware of the other(s) and how their positions interact to affect the tilt of the bench. Some or all of the individuals seated on one or both sides either move towards or away from the fulcrum to interactively create an imbalanced tilted or balanced horizontal state (See Figures 3, 5 and 6).

Figure 5: The persons on the left and right cooperate by sitting the appropriate distance from the fulcrum to create a horizontal state of balance.

Domination State

One or more persons sit on one side of the bench and move(s) toward or away from the fulcrum to create an imbalanced tilted state between them and an individual or people seated on the other side (See Figure 6).

Figure 6: The two people on the right tilt the bench and lift up the person on the left.

Engaged Interaction State

One or more seated persons straddle the bench while facing an individual or people on the opposite side. The individual or people on both sides move towards or away from the fulcrum to interactively create an imbalanced tilted or balanced horizontal state.

Disengaged Interaction State

One or more people seated on one side of the bench face away from an individual or people seated on the other side. As those seated on either or both sides move towards or away from the fulcrum, they create imbalanced tilted or balanced horizontal states. Although interactions are taking place, they are coincidental and none of those seated are aware that the interactions are occurring with the individual or people seated on the other side.

2ToTango's triangular cross section twists 180 degrees from the left and right sides, which provide flat top surfaces for seating, to a sharp edge in the bottom center to create a visual fulcrum. The resulting rotated form that transforms from the flat seating surfaces on the ends to the teeter-totter fulcrum in the center clearly reflects its function. The triangular cross section on the left and right sides also helps to minimize 2ToTango's visual mass. The four bottom-facing polished aluminum surfaces reflect the floor or ground material, blending the bench into the surrounding environment. This creates a sense of transparency and makes it appear almost as if people seated on it are floating above the ground.

2ToTango enhances the experience of visiting outdoor public places and exhibition spaces by providing functional seating integrated within a piece of striking kinetic sculpture. It also enables passersby to interact with it in a number of ways ranging from simply beholding its beauty to playing, to partaking in psychological gamesmanship. Although engagement in solo play is always an option, it is worth remembering that for the ultimate experience, "it takes two to tango!"

Nike Has a New 150,000 sq ft, 6 Floor Headquarters in the Middle of NYC

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Take a moment to imagine what a Nike headquarters in the heart of NYC would look like. Now picture that times 10, and that's what it actually looks like in real life. This week marks the first week Nike employees get to work in their new 147,000 sq ft NYC home. After the tour we took last week, we've been wondering: Is there space for us?

The office is so massive, it's difficult to pick a starting point, so here's an overhead view of the main outdoor terrace. You can casually gaze upon both One World Trade Center and the Empire State Building from this terrace, and you can even see the Nike logo garden from the top of the Empire State Building. Perhaps even Google Earth? To be determined.

Also worth pointing out are the terrace's hardwood floors, which are made of reclaimed cedar from old water towers removed from buildings around the city.

We appreciate that the office hints at classic NYC attractions without being corny. In addition to standing between two of the city's most famous buildings, spaces like the one above are subtle nods to popular NYC locations like the High Line. When sitting on the steps above the staircase, you look out through the glass similar to the iconic lookout point on the path.

There's also a pretty sweet orange VW van, a nod to Nike's original channel of retail (Bill Bowerman and Jeff Johnson would sell Nike shoes at track meets from a similar van). 

The star of the show is this gigantic 4,000 sq ft basketball court on the second floor. Designed as a collaboration between Jordan and Nike, the court features both logos and can host a lot of people.

Other details include these sleek tiles, drawn on-site by NYC artist Micah Belamarich, which represent both Nike and NYC athletic culture. 

These embossed tiles, which abstractly represent basketball.

...And these tiles, which have assembled into a cool Michael Jordan homage.

Not pictured but worth noting are a wall made from Poplar tree bark, intricate ceilings made from recycled textiles designed by Miniwiz, transforming desks in collaboration with Mash Studios, and a large custom food truck featuring artwork by Dark igloo

The main problem Nike will face is figuring out how to get employees to leave every night.

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