[Oa] Sam Buxton's Mikroworld

[Andrew Crawford]

I thought this might be of interest to fellow OA enthusiasts: a British 
designer named Sam Buxton is creating pop-ups from thin pieces of stainless 
steel.  Like OA, he appears to use only cuts and folds.  Unlike OA, the 
current pieces are not in a card format and rely on the steel to hold the 
sculptures in shape.  He calls the series "Mikroworld."

There is a one-page article (one paragraph with photos) in the April 2004 
Wired Magazine.  The online version is here:

    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/play.html?pg=8

The interface for Sam Buxton's Mikroworld website is a terrible Flash-based 
mess.  It is rather difficult to use and, unfortunately, the Flash makes it 
impossible for me to link directly to the section with the images to spare 
you the inconvenience of figuring out how to use it.  It requires visitors 
to provide an email address for entry but, doesn't appear to do any kind of 
validation on it before allowing access.  If you can get through it, there 
are images of the current pieces:

    http://www.mikroworld.com

Several of the pieces are available for sale through the Design Museum in 
London.  Unfortunately, their site also uses a Flash-based interface.  Look 
in the "Design Museum Shop" under "Playing."

    http://www.designmuseum.org

The HTML version of their site has a brief article about Sam Buxton:

    http://www.designmuseum.org/designerex/sam-buxton.htm

... and The Times has an interview:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12269-1048423,00.html

Andrew Crawford
Andrew at Evermore.com