• Mark McKellier - CNC, wood type & custom works
• Ryan Molloy - CNC, experimental applications
• Dafi Kühne - Laser, pantograph and casting plastic
Mark McKellier
-Mark uses hornbeam wood
-Designs are developed in 3D software
Ryan Molloy
-Ryan uses end grain maple for finer work
-Found through research that MDF doesn't work for finer work
-Asks the question, what can digital technology lend to traditional techniques?
-Halftone dots on CNC at small size are hard to do on the machine Ryan has so he designs oval shapes
Dafi Kuhne
-What is new with digital? How can we experiment with it?
-Is poster type in the 20th century still moveable type or recyclable?
-Dafi created Wood type now book
-Experiments using eg. strings around laser cut type
-Dafi had no access to a laser cutter after finishing his degree
-Bought a Pentagraph cutter to cut type
-Dafi uses pear wood (steam treated with shellac)
-Uses wood type to convey a loud and rough concept and clean new type otherwise.
-Richard Ardagh of New North Press creates 3D printed type
-The typefaces he creates are specifically designed for a 3D printer
-Need to look at the type and the work to see which machine will fit (CNC, 3D etc)
-You can cut any face digitally, but that isn't embracing the machine and using it to its full advantage.
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