#making due

Jan 9

Discipline: Industrial Design

The mid-century modern industrial designers, architects, and artists, Charles and Ray Eames were notorious experimenters. Without any complex machinery, they were able to evolve chair design with very crude tools. They built their "Kazam! Machine" as a way to mold plywood. They were trying to find ways to push the medium of wood to create new designs and industrial applications. They made the machine by hinging two-by-four inches pieces of lumber, which were bolted together to withstand the high pressure needed for forming wood. It contained a plaster mold and an inflatable membrane. The device would be bolted together once the wooden strips and glue were sandwiched together against the plaster mold. The Eameses would continuously inflate the membrane with a bicycle pump to keep applying pressure. (1)

Making Due - Arkells

If I’m not mistaken, my first post as an official Noonday Tune contributor was from Canadian rockers, Arkells. I was a late arrival on the Arkells bus, only alerted to them when they supported Augustines on a European tour in 2014, but it was quickly apparent that this party bus was already pretty damn full. With another album, Morning Report, now on the shelves, the band’s cult status is very much intact and while it’s the first single, Private School, that has been soaring on the Canadian charts, Making Due is the one getting the airtime with me, and the one closest to what drew me to them in the first place.