Vacuum forming involves heating up a sheet of plastic and stretching it over a mold known as a “buck”. A vacuum is applied to pull the plastic up to the mold surface. The major parts are a table top ...

Israeli designer Lou Moria has used a vacuum-forming process to create pairs of plastic slippers that can be produced quickly and cheaply (+ slideshow). Lou Moria designed a pair of shoes that could ...

Deforming means changing the shape of a material by bending, stretching, or compressing it. Vacuum forming involves heating a sheet of plastic until soft and then stretching it over a mould using a ...

Creep (top), vacuum forming (middle) and compression molding (bottom) processes. Thermoforming rigid foam core sheets has been on my radar lately, spurred by questions from an Abaris client about ...

Retrocomputing is as much about physical preservation as it is about electronics and computer science. Plastic is an awful material when it comes to decade-long timescales, and the forces of sun, air ...