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 […]

Architects Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa founded their practice mcdowellespinosa in 2010 with the goal of transforming “waste, excess, and the ordinary into new spatial and material realities.” In 2015, they were selected os one of the six winners of the the prestigious Architectural League Prize. Winners of the prize present their work in lectures […]

As part of the ongoing research project the “Explorations of IN” at Steven Holl Architects, we were asked to fabricate the parts for several complex models in a variety of materials. While one aim of their research was “exploring what is possible in Architecture,” for us these projects pushed the boundaries of what we thought […]

For their entry in the competition to design the museum and exhibition complex for the new National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow, Steven Holl Architects sought to emphasize natural light and a feeling of “levitating” volumes. The large levitating elements are meant to have an iconic presence, while the studios, residences and exhibition […]

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 […]

Lawn darts. If you are old enough to remember them, you are probably aware of why the sharp-tipped projectile toys were banned from sale in the United States in the 1980s. Mostly relegated to memory and horror stories, countless dusty sets surely linger within the garages of those who wanted the Consumer Product Safety Commission […]

The parts for this laser cutting project were some of the tiniest pieces we have ever made. Fabricated for researchers at the NYU Center for Neural Science, the “footplates” are one small component used in their work on the impact of hearing loss on auditory processing and perception. In order to fabricate such small parts […]

After covering the walls of our office with pegboard panels to hold materials and tools, we decided to use the remaining material for our sign. We were able to laser cut our logo from the 1/4″ pegboard, which was backed with a sheet of 1/8″ orange acrylic. We saved both the letters and the loose […]

Jewelry designer Satoko Nobe had us laser cut a variety of tiny acrylic parts that she uses in the mold-making process prior to casting her jewelry. The precision of the laser cutter allowed her to achieve a level of intricacy in this particular design that would have been extremely time-consuming to produce by hand. The […]

The Urban-est was designed by Snohetta as a nest/birdhouse that could fit within the hollows of a standard masonry block. The prototype was developed for the Design Trust for Public Space’s 2009 Annual Benefit auction. The exterior surface was comprised of laser-cut 1/8″ birch and acrylic layers built up into a topography creating perches and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 Amrita Takhar used pieces of found plastic in the creation of this set of jewelry pieces she designed. The plastic was salvaged from various automobile parts—reflectors, tail light covers, etc. The unusual shapes were each individually cut from the odd shapes of plastic, in locations identified by Takhar. The cut pieces were then finished […]

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 […]