Fallen Leaves 3D rendering- I had been constantly surprised by the output from this ‘magic box’ as increasing numbers of designers responded to the potential of the technology as well as the intrinsic properties of the material, so that naturally was the technology I chose to use.
It is almost a year now since I left Metropolitan Works to return to being a full time painter. I had been working for some time on ideas first inspired by the sight of fallen leaves whilst at a conference in Bratislava and set about exploring these across a range of media. When Matthew Lewis asked if I would join eight other artists and designers in using digital technology to create a new work to be included in an exhibition to mark the launch of Metropolitan Works’ new building, fallen leaves seemed a good choice for a 3D print. Little did I know what a complex and demanding task it would be!
Part of my ‘mission’ at Metropolitan Works was to make formerly inaccessible industrial technology available to creative practitioners, and the most fascinating of these for me was Selective Laser Sintering or Rapid Prototyping.
www.metropolitanworks.com “Studio Tord Boontje is a design company that works in many fields of applied creativity, from jewellery to architecture. The concept behind this piece was to create a pair f stereo speakers that are built up of a mix of different components, fragments and repetitions, perhaps with a relation to the process of musical composition. By using 3D technology, we scanned real flowers, leaves and insects.”
Allegro -Crescendo
Committee is run by Clare Page and Harry Richardson and their work is produced with the aim of exploring the world of design from an outsider’s perspective. They used 3D scanning,CAD modelling and IT.
The Lost Twin Ornaments
Timorous Beasties depict uncompromisingly contemporary images on traditional textiles and wallpapers to define an iconoclastic style of design once described as ‘William Morris on acid’. They used laser cutting onto brick.
Escapeland (scenic)
Anthony Gormley “Along with many of the oieces made in the studio over the last 6 years, the work treats the body as a site that takes structural logic not from locomotive anatomy but from chemistry. This polyhedral matrix comes from bubble packing: the nesting polyhedral matrix of foams and crystals.”
Core, 2008
Michael Marriott is a British designer specialising in furniture, product and exhibition design, ” This piece is inspired by traditional carved African Ashanti stools. My intention was to generate a contemporary version with a similarly solid mass, carved in three dimensions, and using a three or five axis mill.”
Sunsum Stool