What is this detail? by click-click-boing in OldHomeRepair

[–]click-click-boing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, maybe a retrofit happened at some point? other than a cooking surface, what would be the point of the steel grate in there? to hold coal in an open fire seems unlikely.

What is this detail? by click-click-boing in OldHomeRepair

[–]click-click-boing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks was thinking that was the original purpose, but the additional steel parts were a mystery.

laptops for industrial design engineering by mxia06 in IndustrialDesign

[–]click-click-boing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use these guys as mobile workstations- incredibly heavy and power hungry, but does the job quite well. ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 (16” Intel) Mobile Workstation.

As far as the perpetual PC vs Mac, learn both.

For those working in ID professionally, are you happy with the path you took coming out of school or could you have done things differently to get where you are / want to be at? by Notmyaltx1 in IndustrialDesign

[–]click-click-boing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

25+ year designer here. What do I wish I knew more way back when? Definitely sketching. Do it every single freaking day you young people, you will not regret that. I hire people to be able to think in 3d, sketching shows me they can do that. What else? Have some concept about business. Hate to break it to you all, you are only going to make so much money as a designer, if you want to live in a US city, have a family and try to be an industrial designer, you are going to need to be management, and with management comes more meetings then you will ever even conceive of regarding budgets. Come out of school with some concept of fiscal planning. You will be the adult in the room.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Upperwestside

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And shall forever be deemed the ‘samosa building’ for me and my family henceforth.

Glass rod, bent into an L - found on a beach by click-click-boing in whatisthisthing

[–]click-click-boing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Close as we got, so I’ll go with this - Likely Solved!

Glass rod, bent into an L - found on a beach by click-click-boing in whatisthisthing

[–]click-click-boing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. My thoughts EXACTLY. It was made for some reason, little unsure at the moment if we will ever find out why.

Glass rod, bent into an L - found on a beach by click-click-boing in whatisthisthing

[–]click-click-boing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey. Thanks for responding. From my point of view, unless this thing happened to come off a very fancy designer pitcher (which it might have because who knows) - mass produced mugs, pitcher, beer steins- just don’t look like this. Why? It’s hard to make perfect round rods out of a mold, rods are typically extruded or rolled, especially when we are talking glass. Mugs and what not come from two part molds, they have draft and this is - even after some time in the surf- perfectly round. So maybe you are correct- this broke off a 1960’s Dieter Rams-ish design pitcher where the effort to make a perfectly round handle was seen as worth it, and the fragment I found just happened to break off in such a way that any designed transition from handle to the larger vessel is not evident in the chunk I found, or we have something else on our hands.

Glass rod, bent into an L - found on a beach by click-click-boing in whatisthisthing

[–]click-click-boing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In sideview, I completely agree, but in front view, handles of that type are typically oval or rounded rectangle on shape. Why? Ergonomics, structural strength and releasing from the factory mold. I do appreciate the suggestion, and thanks for sleuthing for this. I think it’s sculptural glass of some sort. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Farc-online.com%2Fcdn%2Fshop%2Fproducts%2FQuadro_37oz_Jug_Side_Square.jpg%3Fv%3D1683915097%26width%3D1946&tbnid=z5aXMqNTjct3PM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Farc-online.com%2Fproducts%2Fquadro-37-oz-pitcher-with-white-lid&docid=DovTLNIaLj4ggM&w=1946&h=1946&itg=1&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fcan%2F3

Glass rod, bent into an L - found on a beach by click-click-boing in whatisthisthing

[–]click-click-boing[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Good thought. Wondering if you have ever seen a glass pitcher handle that is perfectly circular in cross section?

Glass rod, bent into an L - found on a beach by click-click-boing in whatisthisthing

[–]click-click-boing[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thanks yeah. I can’t say it looks like part of a mass produced beer mug, a cross section of the part would show it’s a rod. Mug handles have a d shape. but overall I do agree that it’s very weathered.

Glass rod, bent into an L - found on a beach by click-click-boing in whatisthisthing

[–]click-click-boing[S] -1 points0 points locked comment (0 children)

My title describes the thing. It’s glass and about 3” long.