DEVELOP3D - Technology for the product lifecycle

With 3D printing drawing curious glances from the art world and the greater public, it’s interesting that more art and design exhibitons are extolling its wonderous qualities of obscure shapes and forms.

These spectacles are part of the Send To Print / Print To Send show at the Aram Gallery, London beginning in January, dispaying the capabilities of the technology and some of its most innovative uses. 

The frames are laser sintered, before the arms of the frames are hand woven - designed to be hand customised to adjust to the culture and surroundings where they are to be worn.

The combined work of two designers previously featured in DEVELOP3D, Chloë McCormick and Nicholas O’Donnell-Hoare, these glasses are an example of what can be done with modern technology, while incorporating traditional methods such as tapestry.

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