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Cool Tools

Cool Tools

Cool Tools
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In each episode of the Cool Tools Show, Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder talk to a guest about some of his or her favorite uncommon and uncommonly good tools they think others should know about.

399 - 410: RJ Andrews
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  • 399 - 410: RJ Andrews

    Data storyteller RJ Andrews is obsessed with data graphics. He helps organizations solve high-stakes problems with visual metaphors and persuasive graphics. He recently produced designs for The White House, Google, and MIT. RJ’s newest book is “Info We Trust: How to Create Value with Data Graphics.” He is also author of “Florence Nightingale: Mortality and Health Diagrams” and other works. Learn about all publications at Visionary Press. RJ lives/works in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

    Links:
    Newsletter
    X Profile
    Bluesky Profile

    TOOLS:
    0:00 – Intro
    0:47 – Cheap book cradle (airplane neck pillow)
    2:30 – Weighted bookmark
    9:00 – Bendable neck reading light
    12:58 – Giant desktop bookstand
    20:43 – Visionary Press
    20:43 – Info We Trust

    Watch on YouTube   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/rj-andrews-data-storyteller/   To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/qc496XB6bGbrAEKK7
    Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 34min
  • 398 - 409: Julian Bleecker

    Julian Bleecker, Ph.D., is an accomplished engineer and author with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, an MSEng from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz. He founded Near Future Laboratory in 2005 and OMATA, a one-person innovative hardware product design studio, in 2014, which he sold in 2022. Julian has written It’s Time To Imagine Harder and co-authored The Manual of Design Fiction. He also wrote the influential essay, Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction. His engineering expertise and innovative work in Design Fiction have significantly shaped creative practices worldwide.

    Near Future Laboratory Podcast
    LinkedIn
    Instagram

    TOOLS:
    0:00 – Intro
    0:34 – Baofeng 5RM Multi-Band Ham Radio
    7:43 – Make Playing Cards
    17:08 – Sendy.co and Instructions
    24:23 – Astro + Netlify

    Watch on YouTube   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/julian-bleecker-engineer-and-author/

    To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/qc496XB6bGbrAEKK7

    Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 42min
  • 397 - 408: Mac Moss
    Mac Moss is an Idaho based graphic designer who operates his own one man studio known as mm.s. Heavily inspired by science fiction and the American West, his work has naturally drifted into predominantly the outdoor industry. Outside of work, Mac races competitively at ultra marathon distances.   TOOLS:
    0:00 – Intro
    1:29 – Solar Awareness / Lumos Sun Tracking App
    11:27 – Hori Hori Garden Tool
    14:41 – Sodastream Hack
    21:51 – Quanta Vinyl Streaming
    30:11 – Getty Pacific Standard Time exhibit
    30:35 – The Ecology Center   LINKS:  Instagram: @macmoss.studio Website: macmoss.studio   Watch on YouTube   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/mac-moss-graphic-designer/   To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/qc496XB6bGbrAEKK7
    Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 26min
  • 396 - 407: David Rager

    David Rager is an accomplished Creative Director with over two decades of experience in design leadership, brand building, and environmental experiences. As NASA’s current Creative Director, he oversees the agency’s visual brand and iconic Graphics Standards Manual and is responsible for reintroducing the NASA Logotype (Worm). Previously, Rager led teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Disney, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the New Museum, and co-founded Weekends, a design studio operating between Paris and Los Angeles.

    TOOLS:
    0:00 – Intro
    1:29 – Solar Awareness / Lumos Sun Tracking App
    11:27 – Hori Hori Garden Tool
    14:41 – Sodastream Hack
    21:51 – Quanta Vinyl Streaming
    30:11 – Getty Pacific Standard Time exhibit
    30:35 – The Ecology Center

    Watch on YouTube   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/david-rager-creative-director-at-nasa/   To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/qc496XB6bGbrAEKK7
    Fri, 06 Sep 2024 - 37min
  • 395 - 406: Danny Kim

    ABOUT DANNY KIM:
    20+ years of vehicle architecture & prototype development. Inventor w/ 65 issued int’l patents, 22 USPTOs. Focus of HBS case study: Industrial design & sustainable transportation. Former Land Rover mechanic, machinist, woodworker, welder, and vehicle integrator. Reed College, UCB, RISD, & Media Lab.

    LINKS:
    LIT Motors
    Wefunder
    Flickr
    Instagram
    YouTube

    TOOLS:
    0:00 – Intro
    1:19 – 48″ Margining steel lead screw shaft Rockwell 52 (AKA Handy File)
    7:48 – Spectrum 375 Plasma Cutter (1/2″ lightsaber “Scissors’)
    14:35 – Edwards 65 Ton Ironworker
    16:07 – Miller MIG Welder
    23:58 – Maybe cardboard would be a prototyping tool
    23:49 – LIT Motors prototype

    Watch on YouTube   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/danny-kim-inventor/
    Fri, 30 Aug 2024 - 39min
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