The Machine, the Leather, the Skin
Computational designer and tattoo artist Assaad Awwad on the body as archive, the materials he hasn't yet mastered, and why his most personal piece will never be seen.
Design
Made by Hand, On Purpose
It is not that hands are better than algorithms. It is that certain materials contain problems that can only be solved in person, and the solving of them produces knowledge that cannot be abstracted without being lost.
THE IMPERFECT SURFACE
On what handmade objects carry that mass-produced ones cannot — and what we owe them in return.