This was my first foray into 3d printing. It was a complex abstract shape built in Solidworks, based on my thumbprint.

A project to disassemble a product and re-imagine it in different materials using digital manufacturing techniques. This is a working keyboard re-made in laser cut wood with leather key-space.

These three rings were from my Design Physiology class. We cast our own finger, took profiles from the cast, and 3d modelled and printed rings, perfectly formed to our own fingers.

An early project to create an object to house a dreadlock from the late Bob Marley. We were required to use wood and metal, and both had to be lathed. The metal cap alludes to a microphone, while the wooden form is relaxed and sinuous, the three rings referring to his song Three Little Birds.

This was part of a series of plasticity studies, exploring thermo-forming plastics, and how to achieve different effects. This sheet was scraped with an electric burr before being vacuum formed over an abstract shape. Photographing it over a lightbox shows off the details.

Another Design Physiology project, this project was to study a physical movement of a body part, how it was limited by bones, sockets, ligaments, muscles etc. This is an abstract representation of my thumb. I measured the movement limits, studied the physiology of thumb bones, the different kinds of joints. I then built a 3d assembly, and 3d printed the parts.They were then bound together with elastic, to represent the ligaments. The photos below show the assembly superimposed over my hand.

These images show the limits of movement, from above and side.