{"id":600810,"date":"2026-04-23T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:02:29","slug":"perfectly-nailing-a-form-with-minimal-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600810\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectly Nailing a Form with Minimal Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p id=\"c32d7b_3834\" data-ic-marker=\"6a27db_266\">Here we see a couple blocks of Maple.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ac7e7a_6762\" data-ic-marker=\"8ae7ba_160\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1831145_81_143852_DQnm9qPtA.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p id=\"e5d634_4250\" data-ic-marker=\"9563a2_185\">But turn them just a bit, and they&#8217;re something else. Admittedly this hits me more than you; where I live, I see cows every morning. So I was struck by how Swiss industrial designer <a href=\"https:\/\/carloclopath.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlo Clopath<\/a> so perfectly nailed the form of a cow, by making just a few cuts in a piece of Maple.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e9407e_3756\" data-ic-marker=\"2f056c_852\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-image-width=\"880\" data-image-height=\"806\" data-image-id=\"1831143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1831143_81_143852_7wR_JnXXw.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"19a587_2011\" data-ic-marker=\"b4b574_1256\">Admittedly, Clopath picked the right animal to render. Seeing them up close, I&#8217;m always struck by how rectilinear cows are, as if they were designed for shipping.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fb2f9c_2744\" data-ic-marker=\"796912_353\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1831144_81_143852__Hp_DtyhV.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p id=\"a8d7cd_8474\" data-ic-marker=\"69c5d0_848\">Clopath created these years ago, as objets d&#8217;esign for a now-defunct brand calld Dadadum. <\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Here we see a couple blocks of Maple. But turn them just a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-600810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}