Following are images of milled surfaces we have been working on over the past year. Many of these surfaces are generated by custom scripts that one of our alumni, Skylar Tibbits, wrote while he was working here, and that we have continued to develop.

To create surfaces like these the digital information generated often looks nothing like the physical output. The creation of these surfaces requires a process of thinking and doing that is based upon contextual constraints that are determined by filtering design intent through the available means and methods of physical production. In the cases presented here, we were studying the ability to emphasize the topographies possible while operating within less than 1″ thick materials. We feel that this way of working - employing digital design and fabrication technology as guide along a journey, rather than the destination, that is often lacking in design today - at least based on what we see going on in design schools and professional practice.

Note: All of these images are fabricated, physical objects. None of them are computer generated images.