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One for the Girl Geeks

via Make Magazine: This jewellery made me smile this afternoon. Nicholas and Felice design and produce these interesting geeky and nerdy pieces using sterling silver, dies, a 20 ton hydraulic press and a CNC mill. It brought me back to 20 odd years ago. To doing a project on CNC machining on a Kitamura in [...]

Eye catching Wine label design

Via TheDieline.com: Love this minimalistic wine label design titled “The Optimist Wine Bottle”. Is the glass half empty or half full? Once you tilt the bottle to pour the wine the graphic shows the full glass. Designed by Greg Bennett for Siquis, you can read much more, including interesting production details, here in the Dieline [...]

Review of Project Runway Season/Series 3 on Sky1

Project Runway Season/Series 3 on Sky1 Great reality fashion series which incorporates talent, no hopers, innovation, blandness, banality and creativity, with plenty of rivalry and tension thrown in for good measure. Highly entertaining. It’s back. Another season of Project Runway with Heidi Klum presenting and the usual judges of Michael Kors and Nina Garcia with [...]

Review of Project Runway TV Series on Sky One

Project Runway TV Series on Sky One Very enjoyable fashion designer talent elimination TV show. This series is approaching its season 2 finale and its been very entertaining so far. Sixteen designers all competing to win. Each week, they complete a design task and the weakest resulting designer is eliminated. Some of the tasks have been very [...]