NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age:
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Now through Monday, January 15 2018
The first U.S. major exhibition of the Dutch designer Joris Laarman and his multidisciplinary team, known for their pioneering and elegant applications of digital technologies. Working at the intersection of design, art, and science, Joris Laarman Lab is abolishing traditional distinctions between the natural and machine made, the decorative and functional to produce design of flawless beauty and technical ingenuity.
The exhibition explores Laarman’s conceptual thinking, as well as his embrace of experimentation to fuel the creative process. Organized around each significant step forward in the Lab’s research and development, the exhibition presents the full range of Joris Laarman Lab’s empirical investigations of digital design; from the iconic Bone Chair generated from algorithms that mimic bone growth to a pedestrian bridge built in midair using advanced robotic 3D printing. Twenty-one process videos document the Lab’s collaborative environment and high-tech tools— providing fascinating demonstrations of digital technology in action, as well as the skilled craftsmanship that is equally important to each object’s evolution. Pushing design beyond its current dictates, the Lab’s scientific and technological breakthroughs are advancing how we will design, manufacture, and distribute the objects of tomorrow—and point to a future where form and fabrication will surpass the limitations of industrial production.
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- CHDIG_171222_01.JPG: Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age
Founded in 2004 by Dutch designer Joris Laarman and filmmaker Anita Star, Joris Laarman Lab is known for its pioneering work that fuses digital technologies with design, science, and craftsmanship. The Amsterdam-based Lab consists of designers, engineers, programmers, and makers. Among its astonishing array of work are furniture forms created with software that mimics bone growth, robotically assembled tables made from voxels (3D pixels), and a 3D-printable chair available for free download. The team's inventive furniture and cutting-edge experiments are as innovative as the manufacturing processes used to create them.
Recent major projects include the development of MX3D printing, a first-of-its kind digital fabrication process in which a robot prints metal structures in mid-air. The revolutionary process enables aesthetic freedom -- structures are self-supporting, pulled and twisted into undulating shapes that would otherwise never be possible. The MX3D Bridge, a fully functional footbridge, will be 3D-printed using the technology and installed over a canal in Amsterdam in 2018.
Joris Laarman Lab's imaginative approach focuses on research and experimentation, testing new technologies and production methods that point to a future where from and fabrication surpass the limitations of industrial production. At the same time, Laarman and his team often reference historical periods in their body of work, such as the Baroque (which began in the 1600s) and Art Nouveau (popular between 1890–1910). Their use of curvilinear, attenuated forms signify not just an interest in ornament but also a connection to the past. The Lab's work straddles tradition and innovation, high technology and craftsmanship, and aesthetics and function, concerns that remain at the forefront of design today.
- CHDIG_171222_03.JPG: Table, Bridge
Designed by Joris Laarman Lab
aluminum, wolfraam carbide
Courtesy of Joris Laarman Lab
table organic form 3D printing aluminum Dutch furniture design bone
- CHDIG_171222_26.JPG: Makerchairs
Among the promises of digital fabrication is returning production methods to users, which is increasingly possible as 3D printers shrink in size and price point. This democratization of production is at the heart of maker culture, a digital DIY movement often typified by an amateur zeal that is upended in the Makerchair series. The series consists of 12 chairs, each an investigation into material, pattern variability, and digital fabrication methods. Each Makerchair is digitally fabricated and assembled from small parts like a 3D puzzle. True to the maker spirit of the series' namesake, Joris Laarman Lab adapted the Makerchair design and made it available for free download at bitsandparts.org.
- CHDIG_171222_32.JPG: Bookshelf, Branch Mini, 2010
Designed by Joris Laarman Lab
bronze
Courtesy of Joris Laarman Lab
- CHDIG_171222_44.JPG: Digital Matter
Nintendo meets Rococo . . . . In 2011, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta commissioned Joris Laarman Lab to develop an installation about the future of design. Inspired by research into programmable materials, Laarman and his team proposed a series of tables made of voxels, small cubes that represent volumetric pixels. The voxels can be assembled and reassembled by a robot arm following a digital blueprint. The series explores three-dimensional resolution using Nintendo's Super Mario, a video game character, as a pixel-based analogy. As the voxel size used in each table decreases from 10 millimeters to 3 millimeters, the resolution of each Rococo-inspired table increases.
- CHDIG_171222_60.JPG: MX3D
MX3D is a revolutionary digital fabrication process. Developed by Joris Laarman Lab, MX3D uses industrial robots and an advanced welding machine to print metal structures in mid-air. It originated from the Lab's desire to 3D print large-scale functional objects -- until MX3D the size of 3D-printed parts had been limited to the size of the printer. This new technology advances the technical and aesthetic possibilities of digital fabrication. Parametric modeling software generates self-supporting, attenuated forms. The Dragon Bench is the first series created using the MX3D metal printer. In 2018, the MX3D Bridge -- the world's first fully functional footbridge 3D-printed in stainless steel -- will be installed over a canal in Amsterdam.
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