Sunday, 15 July 2007

Furniture design and production as an artwork performance

FRONT Design, a Swedish design firm is bringing the technology Front2
to people’s bedrooms to create truly personalized furniture. The 3-person team “draws” directly into the air using the tip of a pen, captured by surrounding cameras connected to computers. The sketches are translated into 3D digital files and materialized through an innovative Rapid Prototyping technique - a plastic molding machine that uses a laser beam to solidify the liquid plastic layer-by-layer with the 'functional' piece of furniture emerging over a day.Front_motion_capture_sketchfurnit_3

The design team are doing “performances” of their work in Miami, Tokyo and other cities.



[From Wired Blogs: Gadget Lab]

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