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The Completed Herman Miller Project
My project, Integrated Workstation, which resulted from the Cranbrook and Herman Miller partnership, is ready to be seen. See it in person at ICFF booth #1170.
Clip Tree Press Information
Press Information for Clip Tree's premier at ICFF 2012. Stop by booth #968 to see it in person!
Quill Light Version 2
The latest Quill Light prototype is complete. To turn the light on, simply lean the stem forward. To turn it off, lean it back, facing away from the task area.
Mirror Hooks
Mirror Hooks with chromed aluminum and White Oak or Walnut are now ready to received coats and hats.
Orbit Light
The Orbit Light features an 'orbiting' switch that turns the light on and off as it is rotated clock-wise or counter-clockwise around its glass dome.
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Today we drove to Grand Rapids Michigan to visit Davidson Plyforms and Steelcase. It was an extremely interesting and informative field trip. Davidson Plyforms has long done the molded plywood work for Herman Miller’s classic line of Eames furniture (LCW, Lounge Chair and Ottoman). To be able to see stacks of components from these iconic pieces as well as watching them being produced was thrilling.
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Claire Warner and Sam Vinz of Volume Gallery paid us a visit yesterday to explain how their gallery works. Their gallery is one of a very small handful of galleries devoted to the emerging designer. Their model is fantastic. We also talked about the limited edition process, design as art, american design(ers), getting objects made, and many other interesting topics. They were also kind enough to give feedback to many us of about our work. Thanks Claire and Sam.
More about them here http://www.wvvolumes.com/about
A great video showing fellow Cranbrook student Jason Ruff creating a glass decanter.
After a 35 hour (!) print job in the Dimension ABS RP machine, I now have the first semi-working model for the main component. I was under the impression that a group of separate parts remain separate when printed together (after all I have seen fully functional joints get printed in one shot). I have found out however that this is not true. I think that I need to account for the thickness of the plastic as it comes out of the print head. The next version that I print will have improved tolerances that account for that.
Here are a few (crummy cell phone) images of what I have so far.
The parts after being removed from the RP machine. The brown stuff is support material that gets dissolved in a corrosive bath to separate it from the ABS.
The two objects that I am committed to creating for our first project as mentioned in my previous related post is a power-generating garden tool and a solar curtain. While the garden tool is remaining mostly unchanged the solar curtain has changed into what I am calling solar paddle lights.
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