Open Design of Jewelry

Example: Fluid Forms

URL = http://www.fluid-forms.com/

"Fluid Forms, in turn, uses geodata as a starting point for very individual jewelry.

This too contributes to an aesthetics which is strongly inspired by nature. In addition to this, the layer structure of 3D printing is actively used as a design element. The source code for this will also be publicly available sooner or later, enabling other designers to pick up the basic logic and use it for their own work." (http://issuu.com/openp2pdesign/docs/cis.doc_open-design)

Discussion

"More and more frequently, program code is becoming the logical material for the definition of three-dimensional shapes. If the code serves its purpose well and is made available to other creative coders, there is a good chance that the latter combine it with additional functions. So a virtual toolbox, so to speak, for various design purposes is created. First prototypes of chairs whose structure has been automatically created by program code on the basis of its future user’s weight and the desired weight distribution, and which have subsequently been 3D printed, already exist.

Over time such software functions will take on more and more complex tasks. Thus some kind of intelligent aesthetics will take shape which gives form to the desired function at the touch of a button. In this respect the designer’s job will be increasingly to work out the right definitions of task and the appropriate framework conditions." (http://issuu.com/openp2pdesign/docs/cis.doc_open-design)