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Black Bird

Black Bird
2018
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tomas Kral (b. 1979) ia a Slovakian designer who graduated from the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2008 and taught on the Industrial Design master's programme from 2010. He established a design studio in Lausanne in Switzerland in 2008 with a strong focus on playful designs for everyday objects.

The 2018 ECAL Digital Market saw the creation of 45 3D printed objects by ECAL Product Design master’s students and ECAL-related designers (faculty members and alumni). A range of innovative everyday objects were presented at Milan Design Week at the Spazio Orso 16, a 17th century Milanese palazzo, which had been turned into a production site and retail shop. The project investigated the possibilities of production on demand, emphasising how fast turnover within the design industry could become, and experimenting with new design details that are too intricate to achieve with traditional manufacturing techniques.

Object details

Object type
TitleBlack Bird
Materials and techniques
Printed on demand on Formlab printers.
Brief description
3D printed Black Bird
Physical description
3D printed bird manufactured in black plastic. The figure has a flat top, bottom, and front side, with indentation for the eyes and wings, and a small protrusion to indicate the beak. The base of the figure is hollow.
Dimensions
  • Height: 72mm
  • Length: 40mm
  • Width: 25mm
Summary
Tomas Kral (b. 1979) ia a Slovakian designer who graduated from the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2008 and taught on the Industrial Design master's programme from 2010. He established a design studio in Lausanne in Switzerland in 2008 with a strong focus on playful designs for everyday objects.

The 2018 ECAL Digital Market saw the creation of 45 3D printed objects by ECAL Product Design master’s students and ECAL-related designers (faculty members and alumni). A range of innovative everyday objects were presented at Milan Design Week at the Spazio Orso 16, a 17th century Milanese palazzo, which had been turned into a production site and retail shop. The project investigated the possibilities of production on demand, emphasising how fast turnover within the design industry could become, and experimenting with new design details that are too intricate to achieve with traditional manufacturing techniques.
Collection
Accession number
CD.22-2020

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Record createdMarch 31, 2020
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