Send to Print/Print to Send at Aram Gallery

As 3D printing takes on cultural currency, the London gallery gathers an array of projects that show how imaginative designers are exploring the technology.

Send to Print/Print to Send offers a variety of impressions of uses of 3D printing in the design industry today. This timely exhibition shows work by designers and organisations who are developing the capabilities of this technology. In addition it will include examples of the increasingly important role 3D printing plays in the design process, particularly during the complex prototyping stages.

Featuring pieces from the studios of both established and emerging designers, The Aram Gallery uses this exhibition as a way to examine how designers' processes are developing to accommodate new technological advances. We offer our visitors an idea of what 3D printing is, and how it is being contemporaneously used. This exhibition is not intended as an exhaustive overview, but a cross-disciplinary pick and mix of examples.

3D printing, the summary term for Rapid Prototyping or Additive Manufacturing is a means of creating three-dimensional objects using a specifically designed printer. In place of 'ink' a continuous strand of, most commonly, polyamide or nylon is layered up to create a 3D form based on a computer drawn image. Early uses of 3D printing were for creating prototypes as the process, although costly, is much quicker than producing a handmade model. More recently, rapid prototyping technology is being used to produce 'finished', end designs.

Top: Michael Eden, <i>Large Oval Yellow Bloom,</i> 2011. Nylon, approx. 12 Hours. <br />Above: Chloë McCormick and Nicholas O’Donnell-Hoare, </i>Tapestry Spectacle,</i> 2011.
Laser Sintering/ Hand Woven Tapestry, 10 Hours. — Top: Michael Eden, *Large Oval Yellow Bloom,* 2011. Nylon, approx. 12 Hours.
Above: Chloë McCormick and Nicholas O’Donnell-Hoare, Tapestry Spectacle, 2011. Laser Sintering/ Hand Woven Tapestry, 10 Hours.

Send to Print/Print to Send will include works from the fields of architecture, industrial design, fashion, and product design, including work by Assa Ashuach, Michael Eden, FAT, Freedom of Creation¬¬, Jump Studios, Markus Kayser, Dirk vander Kooij, Chau Har Lee, PearsonLloyd, Chloe McCormick, Serie, Superfusionlab, Silvia Weidenbach and Unfold.

Serie Architects, <i>V Office</i> facade detail, 2007. — Serie Architects, *V Office* facade detail, 2007.

Send to Print/Print to Send
13 January–25 February 2012
The Aram Gallery
110 Drury Lane
Covent Garden
London WC2B 5SG

Dirk Vander Kooij, <i>Endless / Flow Rocking Chair,</i> 2010 + VIDEO. 3.5 hours for 1 chair. The "craftsman" here is named Robot Herman, who in his second life (the first as a welder in the Chinese car industry), has learned to build endless furniture by ejecting a thread of molten plastic in one
continuous movement. — Dirk Vander Kooij, *Endless / Flow Rocking Chair,* 2010 + VIDEO. 3.5 hours for 1 chair. The "craftsman" here is named Robot Herman, who in his second life (the first as a welder in the Chinese car industry), has learned to build endless furniture by ejecting a thread of molten plastic in one continuous movement.

Riccardo Bovo, <i>Flock Lampshade,</i> 2011.
PLA, 96 Hours. <i>Flock Lampshade</i> is a Design-Fabrication MicroSystem: software lets the user customize the lampshade and an open-source 3D printer produces it. — Riccardo Bovo, *Flock Lampshade,* 2011. PLA, 96 Hours. *Flock Lampshade* is a Design-Fabrication MicroSystem: software lets the user customize the lampshade and an open-source 3D printer produces it.

Markus Kayser, <i>Solar Sinter Experiments,</i> 2011 + VIDEO.
Sand, it takes 1 second to print 1mm. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D-printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology. — Markus Kayser, *Solar Sinter Experiments,* 2011 + VIDEO. Sand, it takes 1 second to print 1mm. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D-printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.

Assa Ashuach, <i>Twist Loop Light</i>. Photo by Nick Moss. — Assa Ashuach, *Twist Loop Light*. Photo by Nick Moss.

Send to Print/Print to Send at Aram Gallery

As 3D printing takes on cultural currency, the London gallery gathers an array of projects that show how imaginative designers are exploring the technology.

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