{"id":408,"date":"2012-10-13T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/stone-tools-with-plastic-handles\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T22:53:00","slug":"stone-tools-with-plastic-handles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/stone-tools-with-plastic-handles\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone tools with plastic handles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<h4>Sent to you via Google Reader<\/h4>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/c9qQuQD9lqo\/stone-tools-with-plastic-handl.html\">Stone tools with plastic handles<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/flintplastic01.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>Israeli designers Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow presented their modern stone and flint tools at the Budapest Design Week. The pair combined hand-chipped blades and axes with modern high-impact plastic handles, to make tools that are beautiful and functional. I&#8217;d love to have one of those knives around the office. Designboom has more pics, and commentary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<\/p>\n<p>the set is a result of an experimental exploration of the realm of tool making. where stone and flint tools have been the means of<br \/>our ancestors&#8217; survival for over a million years, they magnify our bodily (teeth, fingernails, fists etc.) capabilities of cutting and chopping,<br \/>sawing and pounding. through a method of three-dimensionally scanning and printing, the ancient artifacts are digitally outfitted with<br \/>custom-designed handles, encapsulating the rugged forms in a perfectly enclosed case. by juxtaposing the polarities of the<br \/>manufacturing processes in computer generated forms, an intersection of material technologies and functionality coincide on a tangible scale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/8\/view\/24124\/modern-stone-flint-tools-by-ami-drach-dov-ganchrow.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>modern stone + flint tools by ami drach + dov ganchrow<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/neatorama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neatorama<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e66b34f3c5b903147f505383864b7541&#038;p=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e66b34f3c5b903147f505383864b7541&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/c9qQuQD9lqo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to you via Google Reader Stone tools with plastic handles Israeli designers Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow presented their modern stone and flint tools at the Budapest Design Week. The pair combined hand-chipped blades and axes with modern high-impact plastic handles, to make tools that are beautiful and functional. I&#8217;d love to have one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-6A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}