Check out these cool DIY robot sculptures made from old typewriters by Jeremy Mayer.  It looks like he’s been doing this for years while artists and designers have really started this re-make movement not too long ago.

I started working with typewriters in 1994 while living in a small town in Iowa. They’ve always been intensely interesting to me (when I was about ten years old I wanted to take apart my mother’s 1920’s Underwood), so it was natural that, having a typewriter and some free time, I would want to dissect one. I think of the typewriter as a product of nature- it was designed by minds immersed in nature around them, and mimicked the curves, geometry, and physical processes abounding in nature. Though it is cold metal created by human hands, the typewriter is just as much a natural material as stone or wood. I concentrate on bringing this fascination with the raw material and interest in science and science fiction together in the subtleties of the human form.

via io9, Design Page

Tags: cold metal, curves, designers, fascination, free time, geometry, human hands, living in a small town, natural material, old typewriters, physical processes, raw material, Robots, science fiction, sculpture, sculptures, subtleties, typewriter

This entry was posted by max on Monday, October 13th, 2008 at 11:57 am and is filed under A+Featured DIYs, Art, Consumer, Design, DoItYourself!, Earth, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Re-use, Recycle, Robots, re-make, technology.