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Our necklaces displayed at Dermadonna Custom Tattoos
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If you are visiting Amsterdam and would like to see our necklaces in real life, drop by at Dermadonna Custom Tattoos. We are honoured to have our jewelry displayed in this amazing studio.
Unhealthy Mind Image
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Everyone is familiar with the concept of the unhealthy body image. We're flooded every day with the imagery of unrealistically fit models. This makes us feel bad about ourselves, because our own bodies... aren't quite there, to say so. And then we so want to believe in the new amazing diet or the magical appetite pill! Yeah, people do strange things in the name of the often heavily photoshopped beauty ideals.
How minimalism changed my life - part ii
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A personal journey of three years that was started by Marie Kondo's book, the life changing magic of tidying up. First ripple effect: reading The life changing magic of not givinf a f**k by Sarah Knight.
how minimalism changed my life - part i
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The life changing magic of tidying up It all started with Marie Kondo’s book, 'the life-changing magic of tidying up', in January 2015. I am not even sure any more how i came across the book. Probably searching for ideas on Pinterest, or maybe it was a recommendation by Amazon - recommendation algorithms these days are sometimes so good that it’s freaky. What I remember however is, that I was facing a difficult career decision at the time. I was about to turn 34, working for a multinational company as a application manager. I quite liked my job but we were...
Ideas => objects
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This journey began with the SMOG FREE RING. It is a cool concept by the Dutch design studio Roosegaarde. The idea behind each ring is that inside of the transparent cube there's a blob of condensed smog, which is collected via outdoor air filters. The profits from the sales of such cubes are reinvested in order to create more of such filtering machines.
I liked the concept a lot, but the kind of ring they make to put this cubes on isn't exactly my style... Therefore I decided to buy only the cube and 3D-print the ring of my own design. In this specific case, my own design would imply heavy use of the somewhat cliché Voronoi-tesselated mesh, which is not easily doable outside of the scope of additive manufacturing.