In the fall of 2010 Joris Laarman Lab was commissioned by the High museum Atlantato develop a kinetic installation that would illustrate a direction of future design. The installation is part of the exhibition “modern by design” that also features Nendo’sVisible Structuresand works from the High’s growing collection of contemporary design that showcases late twentieth- and early twenty-first century design. Next to that the exhibition will feature a selection of works chronicling three key moments inThe Museum of Modern Art’s design collection and exhibition history—”Machine Art” (1934), “Good Design” (1950–1955) and “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” (1972).

Digital Matter was inspired by development of digital nanomaterials, parallel to rapid innovations in computer graphics. An approximation of a rococo console with voxels (3d pixels) suggests that the state of the art in digital materials has it’s counterpart in low resolution graphics from early computer games. Michal Piasecki collaborate in the project with development of parametric models and scripts in Rhino which aid the modeling of roccoco console made of voxels in three sizes: 3, 5 and 10 mm. Digital Matter was manufactured using a 7-axis robotic arm.

Making of – Digital Matter from anita star on Vimeo.

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For this project an interactive tool was created using processing and all animations are exported without the need of post production. A wide range of t processing libraries were used like toxiclibs for the fluid and GLGraphics to make shading possible, as well as Lee Byrons meshLib and the Ani Tweaning Library by Benedikt Groß for the mesh and its animation and ControlP5 and ProScene for camera and control.

It is inspired by the beauty of nature systems with their inherent efficiency and performance. The project explored on-site fabrication of monocoques structures, thereby integrating skin and structure, along with services and infrastructure, with a household technique like knitting. It thus embodies a self organized micro system of textures and a macro system of structure. The book elaborates how the numeric aspects of a textile technique were used, first to digitally imitate the process of assembly and further exploited to develop and visualize a novel fabrication system, based on material research and technical experimentation. The digital machinic system was then deployed on a test site to demonstrate the tectonic capacity of the method developed.

Dodecaudion is a spatial audiovisual controller based on such technologies as infrared distance sensors, arduino, bluetooth, processing and osc , developed by panGenerator one of the main ideas behind the project according to its designers ‘was to explore a new interface that stands as an alternative to traditional controllers (like knobs and buttons) that simply don’t provide much room for performers’ gestural expression.’

DODECAUDION is right now on its Alpha stage but should be ready for production in following months and will be available via HEDOCO online shop.

Dodecaudion is totally opensourced project licensed by an MIT license – source code & Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA) – form design, PCB layout & everything else.

You can find all the open source code source code, CAD documentation and PCB schematics on github

This Artist in Residence workshop focused on the relationship between digital scripting and fabrication.Similar to the illustrations of MC Escher, the installation is designed following general rules of planar tessellation and aggregation.

The design of the components was obtained by running a script that blended two primitive figures along an axial plane of the installation with no overlaps and no gaps. A basic dia-grid anchored the size and the rhythm of each cell.Contary with what happens in a Penrose algorithm , which relies on 2 modules to tile an entire plane. The script was engineered to follow a linear deformation of one cell into another. Therefore each component is perfectly interlocking with each other into the grid but also is different from the surrounding ones.

Project Credits:
Design
Elena Manferdini, Atelier Manferdini, Los Angeles
Design assistance, Atelier Manferdini
Eugene Kosgoron
Project support
Ward Wells
Lou Tassinary
Jorge Vanegas
College Executive Leadership Team
Design Liaison
Gabriel Esquivel
Logistics and support for fabrication and installation
Chuck Tedrick
Jim Titus

Workshop team leaders: Heather Davis Karine Bashoyan Matt Miller Chris Gassaway

Workshop team: Landon Hagan, Weecho Velasquez, April Ford, Allison Fields, Phuong Huynh, Garrett Broussard, Tony Upton, Xuemei Luo, Phuong Cac

Actelion Imagery Wizard is a tool developed for the re branding of Actelion Pharmaceuticals a biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops and markets medicines for diseases that still lack adequate treatments , developed by Berlin based onformative studio.

Actelion Imagery Wizard from onformative on Vimeo.

About the tool

The Processing-based software was developed especially for Actelion. It enables the targeted creation of graphic images based on photographs, whose visual information contained in the tool is translated into graphic elements such as points, lines and curves using special algorithms. There are a number of presets, as well as countless possibilities – through expanded editing and settings – for making fine adjustments on individual graphical elements. It is even possible to edit the underlying photographic template later on without having to switch to other image processing programs. The software allows both the print vector data and the information for digital media to be exported. Extensive adjustment possibilities for the animations are also available in a separate animation menu. Thanks to the software’s modular construction, new additional modules can be easily programmed that allow the software to be expanded on for years to come so that the corporate design can also be continually revived.

Black Mirror is an installation createrd by Robert Seidel consisting of a projection sculpture created by laser-cut paper and projection images.

Black Mirror is currently on show at the Young Projects gallery in Los angeles.

projection & sculpture: robert seidel
soundtrack: richard eigner
commission: young projects, los angeles, usa
Projection on Paper Sculptures in front of a Mirror
Sculpture #1: 1,6 x 1,2 x 0,8 m
Sculpture #2: 2,1m x 0,8 x 0,9 m

black mirror | documentation of the projection sculptures | robert seidel @ young projects, los angeles | 2011 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

The Sun Cutter Project by Markus Kayser explores the potential of harnessing sunlight directly to produce objects. The machine is a low-tech, low energy version of a laser cutter. It uses pure sunlight,
focused by a ball lens, to repeatedly cut programmed shapes in up to 0.4mm thick plywood as well as paper and card.
The project also explores the merit of analogue mechanized production that draws on the machine technology found in pre-digital machinery and automaton. It uses a cam system, moving an X & Y- board to control the shape of the cut. The cams are set into synchronized motion by a small solar-powered motor driving a timing belt.
Each pair of sunglasses made, even though very similar in shape, is still unique, creating a juxtaposition between the machine-made, repetitive and individual, unique object.

Markus Kayser – Sun Cutter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo.

L’Artisan Electronique by Unfold Studio is a modified an open source 3d printer to print ceramics combined with a virtual pottery wheel that was made in collaboration with Tim Knapen. This pottery wheel gives visitors a chance to ‘turn’ their own forms. At regular intervals, a selection of these designs is printed in clay and exhibited in the space.

In L’Artisan Electronique, pottery, one of the oldest artisanal techniques for making utilitarian objects, is combined with new digital techniques. The virtual pottery wheel was realsied by means of a 3D-scanner and digital design software. However, the installation still clearly refers to the artisanal process of working in clay. The printing process imitates the traditional technique used by ceramicists, in which the form is built up by stacking coils of clay.