Follow up on the Sung Dynasty style vase project

One of the completed vase forms I have been working with alongside with the moldmaking class I am teaching at UC. Based on the image on the left I carved, molded, and cast the vases on the right. Click here to see the step by step process.

New form for the repertoire

Here we go, 2-a.m. and finished with the hanging dead squirrel mount. I learned how to skin and flesh a critter; as well as, sew with the faithful American baseball stitch. I'll let this sucker dry for a couple weeks and then take it to the 3-D scanner for some good ol' laser rotate laser action.

Non Fiction Design Collective presents the new website

Katie just couldn't stop working on the new website, but now it is live. Newer and Better images, combined with purchase options, makes us very happy. Check it out and bag some stuff at the new and improved www.nonfictiondesigncollective.com

The Current Ceramics Monthly Issue

Featured in the latest issue of Ceramics Monthly is an article by Steve Thurston explaining our research into the many prototyping avenues. Steve explains how we achieved my rat form, through 3-d scanning and rapid prototyping taxidermy. The best part is the full page print of the "Ratster", the rat and rooster above, which is one of my pieces from our Dresden Porcelain residency.