Thanks! Those are "biscuits." The tool to cut the holes is called a plate joiner (aka biscuit joiner). It's a great way to join wood without exposed screws or nails. Takes longer though.

Building physical things:

A recent kinetic mirror installation

And custom bookshelves

Many of the same concepts we argue about in digital design have been thoroughly discussed and sometimes settled in physical design.

Coincidentally, just last week I created a similar animated shape dynamically with javascript here: http://kemper.io/elastic.html

"Uncensored" isn't entirely accurate. Some of the slides read, "redacted." Still impressive.

Here's a decent link list of illustrators that I think are exceptional:

http://dribbble.com/MelDrawshttp://www.dulk.es/studio/brussels_in_shorts.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeo_Takeihttp://www.roalddahl.com/ (warning flash!) http://www.shelsilverstein.comhttp://www.charleyharperprints.comhttp://quentinblake.com/gallery/illustrations

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