Award Plaques for CMU’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
We recently created a set of sculptural award plaques for a new fund at The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon…
Category: design
Reaction Jewelry
Someone asked us to make Reaction-diffusion wedding bands, we liked the resulting rings so much we decided to make an entire Reaction jewelry…
Artist in Residency: Sage Jenson (mxsage)
Hi, I’m Sage Jenson and I was recently artist-in-residence at Nervous System. As part of my work, I create GPU-based simulations inspired by natural phenomena, from slime mold to snow. Jesse, Jessica and the team at Nervous System helped me translate my digital simulations into physical objects through 3D-printing, metal casting and traditional 2D-printing. Creating these objects pushed the technical boundaries of my work towards more responsive and detailed simulations.
Puzzle Cell Table Lamp
The Puzzle Cell Lamp is now available as a table lamp! You can order the table lamp version in our shop now. It…
Bodysuit for Grimes – collaboration with Asher Levine
We collaborated with fashion designer Asher Levine to create a dragonfly wing inspired bodysuit for Grimes latest music video “Shinigami Eyes”. We worked with Asher…
Puzzle Cell Lamp
Finally! A new product from Nervous System that is not a jigsaw puzzle. Or is it? This otherworldly wood pendant lamp arrives at…
Baffling Bubbles Puzzles: Nervous System X Chris Yates
Baffling Bubbles is a brain bending wooden puzzle brought to you by Nervous System and artist Chris Yates. Each colorful bubble is a…
Corollaria Railing
When we moved to the Catskills and built our new studio, we splurged on one item in our construction: a railing that acts…
mini mushroom, rainbow and magic shape custom puzzles
Our latest puzzle update is all about unique shapes. For the holidays Nervous System is releasing new wood jigsaw puzzles including: giftable mini…
Nervous System collaborates on new 3D-printed organ research published on cover of Science
We founded Nervous System in 2007 with the goal of adapting algorithms and strategies from nature into new ways to design products; but…