As you may have noticed, we haven’t had as many product posts in the past few months. Part of the reason is that design blogs aren’t as popular nowadays. The other part is that we’re busy with other projects and pursuits. We’ll keep BLTD up and running as a resource, but we’ll not be updating […]
There’s several self-watering pots out there in the marketplace, but this group by Nils Plöjel is delightfully straightforward. Each terracotta planter sits inside a reservoir of hand-blown glass. Fill the glass with water and let your plants absorb just what they need, simple as that. “Safe for indoor and outdoor use while the temperature stays […]
I've been looking at portable work platforms, which would be handy around the farm and a bit safer than ladders. Our friends over at Pro Tool Reviews gave good marks to the ~$100 Werner Adjustable Pro Work Platform…Image: Pro Tool Reviews …but given the lack of flat ground here, I've also been coveting this model […]
For his day job, architect and computational designer Greg Blanpied designs bridges for a global engineering firm. But during his off-hours, the digital-fabrication-fluent Blanpied designs these much smaller structures made from laser-cut steel:Their function:"I designed these candle holders to create a stereographic projection of the Flower of Life and Metatron's cube, respectively," Blanpied writes."A stereographic […]
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