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It is very rare on Embody 3D that we give a book such a raving review, in fact it is our first 5 star title! But ‘Stationary Design Now!’ edited by Julius Wiedemann and published by Taschen wiped the whole team of writers at Embody 3D off their feet. ‘Stationary Design Now!’ is a beautifully [...]

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Although this book only covers the real artistic side of Leonardo and doesn’t attempt to cover the more exciting innovations of his career, Leonardo by Frank Zollner, published by Taschen is an exciting, entertaining read for any designer or artist. The  most fascinating aspect of the jumbo sized pictorial is observing Da Vinci’s development sketches. [...]

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Article by Martin Gibson – Twitter: @martingibson @embody3d - 25.06.2010 Best Australian Architecture is an inspirational pictorial book edited by Gary Takle and published by Think Publishing that uncovers the best Australian designer homes. The book is reminiscent of one of my favorite Television series ‘Grand Designs‘. But rather than revealing the process into designing these great homes, [...]

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Article by Martin Gibson – @embody3d @martingibson - 10.08.2010 Rating: ”Managing the Design Process – Concept Development’ is a great primer for all graphic designers to help establish career skills, not just design skills. From creating an effective design brief to establishing valuable and insightful questions to ask during client meetings, this book has it covered. [...]

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Recently we were given a copy of ‘Art Without Compromise’ which divulges into a whole range of diverse issues that designers must tackle each day. Although the book is really art focused, hence the title, we did find it to be of great value to any designer regardless of discipline and we commend the following [...]

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Embody 3D will now begin reviewing books that may interest our readers. We have some really exciting pre-release titles that we will be reviewing over the next few months that will surely be of great value professionally as well as provide some inspiration and entertainment for your design endeavours. Some of the books will be [...]

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Article by Martin Gibson – Twitter: @martingibson @embody3d - 10.06.2010 Wait What on Earth is Keyshot 2? Keyshot 2 is a rendering program that can be used in conjunction with CAD programs like Solidworks, Rhino, Solid Edge, Modo, Maya and the list goes on, you can pretty much import any file that you require. Keyshot is [...]

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The last few days I have considered what Industrial Designers really need when it comes to a rendering program. Just recently on Embody 3D we did a poll surveying the most popular CAD programs used in industry, and a large portion of voters cast their ballot for Solidworks. So I thought I would find the [...]

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LaCie* and Philippe Starck* started working together 15 years ago and the latest addition is the LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive (LaCie | Starck) – it lets you backup, store or transfer your data with mobility. The device has a 2mm aluminium casing to prevent it from overheating and it is very sturdy, yet light [...]

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In Australia Solidworks has almost become an industry standard for hardcore product development and product engineering modelling. Designers often have a real love/hate relationship with Solidworks, whether it be its constant crashing or slow performance, there has got to be more things to love in 2010 than to hate. I have seen Solidworks, once a [...]

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