Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago
Last year I 3D Printed a John Fluevog “glass slipper” for Newcity’s “Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago” issue. This year i’m in it – #38 on the list! Thank you to Brian, Jan, Mike, Jason, Tony, Pedro and...
View Articlelearn3dprinting.co
As part of my residency at The Art Institute of Chicago I have been delivering a series of “beginners guide to 3D printing” workshops. To support these presentations and my teaching in general I...
View ArticleMaking Way for Maker Culture
My teaching activity at SAIC in 3D Printing and my residency at AIC are both highlighted in this article published today on Educause jointly by Alan Labb, and Liz Neely. “Making is an integral part of...
View ArticleNew 3D Scans from the Art Institute
Went on a bit of a tear today uploading scans to Thingiverse from my activities at The Art Institute of Chicago over the last couple of months. I had to cut it short, in order to teach this evening,...
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Chicago Hardware Startup Meetup
Tonight I delivered a short presentation about my work for the Chicago Hardware Startup Meetup hosted by Proof X at ThoughtWorks. I was joined by Peter Zelchenko from Isis3D who talked about their 3D...
View ArticleThe Art of 3D Printing
Alicia Eler interviews me about my work for Hyperallergic ( http://hyperallergic.com/102576/the-art-of-3d-printing/ ) The open sourcing of production reminds me of Cory Arcangel’s “Super Mario Clouds”...
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Autodesk exhibits Orihon at Maker Faire Bay Area
Autodesk is exhibiting my 3D printed book “Orihon – Accordion Book” at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend. If you are in the Bay Area please come and check it out in person. The Autodesk booth is...
View ArticlePecha Kucha NEXT –> Chicago : City of Big Data
I’m presenting tonight at a special Pecha Kucha at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, NEXT –> Chicago : City of Big Data. I’m going to be briefly talking about the history of 3D printing and my...
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Setting up my studio at The Art Institute of Chicago
Summer is here and with it a new chapter in my Artist-in-Residence in the Ryan Education Center at the Art Institute of Chicago. Starting June 1st (yesterday) I am going to be working in the Ryan...
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Studio post, day two: Ceramic Extrusion
Since I started working in 3D printing i’ve been wanting to fabricate objects in ceramic and other materials. Last year Holly and I visited the Solheim Additive Manufacturing Lab to check out their...
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Studio Post: Day Four, live streaming, gremlins, etc
Oooops! Missed a day. Well i did post photos and timelapse videos to tumblr so that counts in my book. Anyhow yesterday everything went wrong. Today the printrbot was *still* bedeviled by gremlins and...
View ArticleAIC Studio: Day 5, Busy busy
Busy day. zomg. First a photo shoot with folks from the Tribune, then an epic hour long phone battle with a to be unnamed health insurance provider (my lunch time), and finally the usual three hour...
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AIC Studio: Day 7, offsite (mostly)
Fairly productive day today, but didn’t spend much of it in the studio really. I popped into Ceramics at SAIC to touch base with Ben, and then went upstairs to the Fabrication Lab to laser cut some...
View ArticleBlue Sky Innovation, Chicago: City of Makers
Last week I sat down with John Carpenter from the Chicago Tribune in my studio at The Art Institute of Chicago. We had a great conversation and he posted this piece today to Blue Sky Innovations, the...
View ArticleStudio Post: Day 9, Two Steps Fwd…
The time is flying by. Soon it will be July. gulp! Today was one of those days where’s it like – wha’ happened? Some really productive conversations, meetings and facebook threads mixed up with some...
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AIC Studio: Day 13
I guess i missed a couple of days last week. Friday + Saturday’s workshops were fairly intense and let’s face it there was the footie too. So this is something of a roundup of the last three days...
View ArticleFeatured in the Chicago Tribune
Big thank you to the Tribune’s John Carpenter who interviewed me for this piece in today’s business section of the Chicago Tribune.
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AIC Studio, day 14
Definite progress today. As you can see Lee, Opel and I got the Prusa moving today – literally, next step is to crank out some plastic and get some calibration prints going. But it’s always exciting to...
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AIC Studio, day 16: Decorative Leaf
AIC Studio, day 16. Another day of really cool conversations. Thanks to everyone who took time to pop in today. Also found time to work on what i’m calling the “decorative leaf” – the hinging element...
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Barbe House Terra-cotta by Louis H. Sullivan
AIC Studio, day 22. Today, Tim Samuelson and I published the first of our 3D scans taken from the work of renowned architect and “father of modernism” Louis H. Sullivan. Tim and I are working on a 3D...
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