The documentary “Print the Legend” covers the rise of 3D consumer printing startups. The featured companies are MakerBot and FormLabs. At the very beginning, I was excited to see MakerBot founders displaying a small relief globe in the startup lab. Later, founder Bre Pettis, midway through the documentary, holds it up in the TV screen capture below. I…
In Season 4 Episode 1, there’s a relief model on the president’s TV. The Netflix series “House of Cards” is a deft user of media (profession) as the slip-n-slide that propels him along his evil path. So I enjoyed seeing a relief model on TV in the first 13 minutes of the season. It appears…
This blog post will blow your mind. Did you know that relief modeling was the inspiration for major film studio logos from the 1920s to today? Title sequences in older films often have delightfully analog elements of design. The photo included at right is the production title for RKO Pictures’ The Hunchback of Notre Dame…