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Jessica Rosenkrantz

@nervousjessica.bsky.social

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artist, designer, programmer. Co-founder of Nervous System, a generative design studio that plays with code, science & digital fabrication http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hi! I’m Jessica. I’m a generative designer in the Catskill Mountains. My design studio is Nervous System nervo.us. We create art, jewelry, lamps, + jigsaw puzzles inspired by natural patterns and made w/ code and digital crafts.
I’m obsessed with fungi, lichen, coral and other weird creatures!

Custom cell cycle bracelet which is made by casting a 3D-printed wax in silver

Hyphae lamps, like leaves on a tree each is unique. The forms are grown in a leaf vein simulation and 3D-printed in nylon

Orbicular Geode puzzle inspired by agate. These are each one of a kind and are lasercut in my studio from plywood

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Jesse Louis-Rosenberg @nervousjesse.bsky.social · 10h

We have finally released our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon! We've done more tweaking and playtesting on this than any other puzzle, and I think we've managed to make a unique and addictive game. It's turned into something completely different from our original idea

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Meet the Flummoxagon

We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 1d

Meet the Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexagon frame but there’s a twist, pieces of the same color can’t touch. n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 6d

We just added a puzzle frame option to our website for folks who want to preserve and showcase their puzzles n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

the back of the puzzle where you can see its maze cut pieces

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight starting around 8:30pm EST we'll be streaming our new Flummoxagon puzzle! join us on Twitch as explore strategies for solving these puzzles www.twitch.tv/nervouspuzzles

flummoxagon puzzle on a wood table including the gameboards, box, wood frame and hexagonal pieces in 4 colors (pink, orange, green and blue)

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 7d

😂 we have similar last names too

Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 7d

I realized we hadn't updated our headshots in over a decade. It felt fitting to take new photos inside our own work (also featuring @nervousjesse.bsky.social @nervo.us)

Nervous_Jessica featured inside of Corollaria monolith an aluminum sculpture she created that undulates with morphing hexagonal patterns

Nervous_Jesse featured inside of Corollaria monolith an aluminum sculpture she created that undulates with morphing hexagonal patterns

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 9d

We are open for commissions! n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/scu...

Jesse Louis-Rosenberg @nervousjesse.bsky.social · 10d

Always gratifying to see my art at the airport. Off to speak at Auburn University for the Day of Design

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 14d

Not at the moment

Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 16d

Thoroughly enjoyed @msage.bsky.social’s slime mold inspired live visuals last night for Robert Rich’s Ambient Church performance

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 19d

Honestly I’m not sure. I think it might be ok but you’d need a robust attachment ring. We could make a bigger one. I think that would work better for your use

Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 19d

Only three Radiozoa orb pendants left n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

Silver Radiozoa orb pendant in a hand, a spherical form with two nested layers of cellular structure

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 19d

In this case, it was the customer’s request. Making it a tray puzzle does make shipping more expensive due to the larger size.

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Jesse Louis-Rosenberg @nervousjesse.bsky.social · 22d

I have been play testing our new puzzle which is _NOT_ a jigsaw puzzle. It’s been super fun. How long do you think should an easy puzzle take? What should each one of these sets of tiles be called? Internally we’ve been calling them scenarios but also considered “board” or just “puzzle”

A set of geometric tiling puzzles with times hand written on them

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 23d

A custom Spectre Tile Gradient jigsaw puzzle. This is a tray puzzle with more than 250 wooden pieces. Should we add this to our product catalog?

Spectre tile jigsaw puzzle with a gradient of green, blue, red and magenta from the four corners

A close up of the wooden pieces. 4 tiles have had their places swapped and stand out from the gradient field

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 28d

I was last hear 2 years ago when I installed it. I see they added a name plate n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9386

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 28d

I’m flying out of Albany today so I go to visit my sculpture which is on display in the airport

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 5

My current everyday wear necklace is the Reaction Möbius Pendant 3d-printed in stainless steel. It’s indestructible, doesn’t tarnish, tactile and infinite! n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 3

Word of the day: boletinoid
Mushrooms having a structure intermediate between gills and pores. As seen in this ash-tree bolete. (I love these) #fungifriends

The boletinoid surface on the bottom of an ash-tree bolete mushroom close us

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our Hyphae lamps are inspired by mycelial networks. Each lamp is unique. We grow them using an algorithm based on how veins form in leaves. We have a few in stock now: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/generat... #sciart

Two unique Hyphae lamps cast a web of intricate shadows on a wall

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 2

Orange mycena mushrooms growing inside a log #fungifriends 🍄

A cluster of bright orange mushrooms burst from the inside of a log. They’re lit by a flashlight on the right side, creating a traumatic shadow.

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 1

and some orange byrozoa

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 1

we saw a bunch of different types of anemones: plumose, moonglow, aggregating and stubby rose. anemones were blanketing the ground everywhere

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 1

most importantly, @jensseattle.bsky.social showed me a nudibranch! Here's a lovely Monterey sea lemon, a type of dorid sea slug

a yellow Monterey sea lemon among sea weeds

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · Sep 1

My daughter's favorite was the sea stars. We saw Ochre sea stars in purple and orange. But the purple is much more common. Scientists think the colors come from their diet (purple ones eat a lot of mussels) @echinoblog.bsky.social has an article on it: echinoblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/why-...

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