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Text by Wanda Lau:
MIT’s Neri Oxman on the True Beauty of 3D Printed Glass
“Last week, the additive-manufacturing community and design aficionados everywhere excitedly welcomed glass to the growing list of 3D printing media. Developed by a team comprising the MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter Group, the MIT mechanical engineering department, the MIT Glass Lab, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, the additive manufacturing platform G3DP (Glass 3D Printing) can print glass in a variety of shapes, profiles, and colors—and subsequently different optical properties and degrees of opacity.
The resulting objects are breathtaking and dazzling, as is the group’s experimental and prototyping process as detailed in its paper, “Additive Manufacturing of Optically Transparent Glass,” published in the September issue of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing (which recently named MIT Self-Assembly Lab director Skylar Tibbits as its editor-in-chief). Moreover, the technology has great implications in the building and construction industries.”
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New UCA Identity designed by Spin
“Creativity in all it’s forms was evident at every touch point, that and a deep desire to deliver a personal and meaningful student experience. However, corporate, dated and deadly dull, there was no affection for the old UCA Identity, it represented none of the spirit, enthusiasm, philosophy or capabilities of the University and its campuses.
It was difficult not to be inspired by the passion for ‘creativity’ and ‘making.’ Our starting point is a visual language synonymous with designers and architects and employed by them as a way of marking work in progress, the humble stencil. It was from this seed the identity grew. We have created a solid anchor point in the logo whose essential stencil component parts will form the visual root from which the identity grows. Its creative potential has no end and can be developed year on year.”
Over the past twenty years Spin has established an international reputation for delivering clear, elegant design solutions across multiple platforms. Their ability to meet the increasingly complex needs of their clients with fresh, clean thinking is what sets them apart. This is reflected in the broad range of sectors they work in. At Spin they value intelligent, informed creative responses and their process is supported by research, strategy development and workshops when required. This approach ensures that their response is particular to the brief they are given, and is always apposite and bespoke.
