Portfolio Archives

For years, Core77 has produced an online guide for Design Week in New York. And even though they have been exclusively online since their inception (way back in 1995), they announced an ambitious experiment for their 2014 guide by choosing a format that many had assumed was dead: print. For four days in May during […]

For his gallery and project space on the island of Nantucket, Michael Gaillard asked us to fabricate a sign that would blend in with the historic character and subdued aesthetic of the area, while still remaining legible from the sidewalk during evening hours when business would be at its peak. Walnut was selected for the […]

For this project, artist Alan Ruiz asked us laser mark a series of his drawings onto 1/4″ thick steel panels. First, a laser marking solution is applied the metal. Once the solution is dry, the panels are placed in the laser cutter where the laser fuses the artwork to the metal as it passes back […]

For their inaugural design conference “Object Culture” held in Brooklyn, we were asked by Core77 to fabricate a small item that would be given out to conference attendees. Given the rough outline of some sort of small token or poker chip incorporating the Core77 logo, we set about producing prototypes using a variety of techniques […]

In lieu of the traditional holiday card, each year the design firm Alexander Isley Inc. sends out a far more memorable holiday gift (see for example, this project). For 2013, the item of choice was a sturdy pair of scissors. We were tasked with finding a way to engrave the scissors with the line: “Alexander […]

The Fighting Unicorns motorcycle club contacted us in order to help produce a unique set of laser engraved knives as gifts for their members. The Fighting Unicorns provided us with folding knives from SOG. Their Woodline folding knife has a solid hardwood handle that provided ample space for laser engraving the logo without disassembling the […]

For his 2013 exhibition “Half of Your Life is Behind You,” artist David Cavaliero asked us to laser engrave a series of large glass mirrors. Cavaliero engraves text, graphics and imagery onto the reverse surface of silver mirrors. The laser was set to engrave away the coating on the back of the mirror until only […]

This project was the result of a cross-disciplinary studio based on the relationship between music and architecture. György Ligeti’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra” served as the inspiration for the design of the building. While incorporating many themes from Ligeti’s Concerto, the project focuses on the distinction between the sounds of the violin and the […]

For her 2010 holiday card, Carrie Hamilton of Kismet Design produced a piece that cleverly uses a variety of laser cutting techniques. The two-sided design overlays a series of laser cut openings in the word “XMAS” to form part of the roman numeral MMX for 2010 on the reverse surface. The non-overlapping portions of the […]

In order to customize the silver sleeves that surround the box protecting the champagne bottle, Dom Pérignon chose to laser cut and engrave text for events. Once a particular message and font was chosen, we carefully inserted tabs into the artwork to hold the letters in place. A special jig was produced to align and […]

French artist Koralie created a series of intricate laser cut and engraved wood and paper figures for an exhibition of her work. The pieces draw on a variety of influences, incorporating iconography from a wide array of cultures. The gallery below shows the laser cut and engraved bass wood pieces. The intricacy of these pieces […]

Paper Engineer Teen Liu creates three-dimensional pop-up art in a wide variety of materials and scales—from greeting cards to full-scale theatrical sets and installation pieces. For this piece, Teen was working on a prototype for a prehistoric pop-up with fluorescent details. All images courtesy of Teen Liu.            

Designer Danika Faiola produces a wide range of jewlery primarily from acrylic sheet stock. The pieces are laser cut and engraved in a variety of fluorescent, mirrored and colored acrylic sheets. The final assembly of the pieces was done by the designer. Images provided courtesy of Danika Faiola.               […]

Artist Ingrid Burrington wanted to create a puzzle where the pieces were made up of the more than 200 neighborhoods in Baltimore. She used GIS data to generate the intricately bordered shapes which were then labeled with the name of each neighborhood. She wanted to create a more durable version of a previous iteration of […]

Todd Bailey is an engineer specializing in hardware-based electronics design, but the more apt and exciting description is seen in the header atop his website: “analog and embedded systems wizardy”. One output of this wizardry is the digital sampler he created and named “Where’s the Party At?”. The enclosures for the kits are made from […]

Ismael Baíz is a professional musician who handcrafts drums here in New York City through his company, Maelo Drums. Baíz uses a wide variety of different woods for his drums, selecting the material based on the needs of the musicians who will be performing with them. The nameplates for his drums were laser engraved with […]

Instead of a traditional holiday card, the design firm Alexander Isley Inc. thought they could make a bit more impact with a more unusual object. So, they decided to laser engrave the hickory handles of dozens of hammers with their name and a fitting message for the medium: “Practitioners of the Nuanced Arts of Persuasion […]

The Australian electro-punk band Angelspit produced a wide variety of laser cut and engraved pieces for their band’s collection of jewelry and assorted merchandise. While a large portion of the intricate works were cut from solid-colored acrylic, we introduced them to some multi-colored composite materials which allowed them to design & create pieces making use […]

Designer Tara Hogan, of Ink + Wit, uses a variety of natural and recycled materials throughout her design work. For this project, Hogan laser engraved a series of her animal designs into wool felt and bristol board. Lighter shades were chosen for both the felt and the bristol in order to allow the dark laser […]

Peabody & Co. laser engraved their logo and web address onto the backs of a collection of iPod nanos that they were using to promote their company. They wanted to use the device as a means of introducing clients to a portfolio of their video production work. We were able to reproduce their exact design […]

Todd Bailey is an engineer specializing in hardware-based electronics design, but the more apt and exciting description is seen in the header atop his website: “analog and embedded systems wizardy”. One output of this wizardry is the digital sampler he created and named “Where’s the Party At?”. The enclosures for the kits are made from […]

Artist Lillian Ball needed a business card to help promote WATERWASH®, a series of projects she has undertaken to help improve water quality and storm water remediation, as well as restore wetlands areas. She provided a simple hand-drawn wave graphic that was then converted into a vector for laser etching on the surface of the […]