Purdue University

New design tool nixes mouse; users create shapes with hands only

These shapes were produced with Handy-Potter, a new design tool developed at the C Design Lab in Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering, that enables people to create and modify three-dimensional ...
Machine Design

Complex shapes made simple

New approaches to creating shapes promise to simplify the design work behind the aesthetic surfaces found on consumer products. Pity the poor designers trying to generate eye-popping shapes for ...
Purdue University

'Makers' 3-D print shapes created using new design tool, bare hands

Shapes like these can be created using a new design tool that interprets hand gestures, enabling designers and artists to create and modify 3-D shapes using just their hands as a "natural user ...
The New York Times

A Designer Who Turns Simple Paper Shapes Into Kaleidoscopic Textiles

Working out of her Zurich studio, Sonnhild Kestler makes clothing and objects inspired by travel, folklore and even her own history. Kestler piecing together a pattern for a textile.Credit...Nick ...