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Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you’re in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself. RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer introduced in the video on the right – a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn’t even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €500). That way it’s accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement they are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can use it to make another and give that one to a friend… The RepRap project became widely known after a large press coverage in March 2005, though the idea goes back to a paper on the web written by Adrian Bowyer on 2 February 2004. RepRap Version I “Darwin” can be built by anyone now. RepRap Version II “Mendel” will be released in a matter of days.

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Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation. Or maybe one of those crazy LED art projects in a skyscraper. It’s better than all that, put together.

What you are seeing here is the Rosetta Disk: 13,500 pages of data—in 1,500 languages—etched on a nickel. To see each page individually you’ll need a 500x microscope …

Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object …

teamdustrial will be reporting live from Offf 2009.

We’ve requested interviews with Eric Wilhelm, Robert. L. Peters, Director Koboyashi, Neville Brody, Joshua Davis, Paula Scher & Stefan Sagmeister. However we are planning to do much more so if you’re interested in sharing your views with teamdustrial just drop us a line and we’ll add you to this exclusive list.

Special shout-out to the PORTUGUESE GRAPHIC DESIGN PANEL on Friday featuring R2, Alva, This is Pacifica and Musa Worklab.

Offf we go!

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