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| Author(s): | Luis Alvarez y Alvarez |  |
| Instructor: | Papadopoulos, Despina | |
| Class: | Personal Expression & Wearable | |
| URL: | TBD | |
| Documents: | TEMPORARY(JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | wearables, industrial design | |
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| Eyeglasses are essential wearable technologies. A tool, a private space, an insignia of the wearers personality, a fashion accessory. Through this industrial design project I consider spectacles as sculptural personal expression. I also seek to understand eye-wear ergonomics and rapid prototyping processes to produce eyeglass frames of perfect fit and an individualized design character. Utilizing these technologies I also explore the possibility of a production pipeline that would render eyeglasses made to 'measure'. The process: Modeling in Alias Maya 3D software. Rapid prototyping stereolitography rendering. Polyethylene casting of prototype. Laser cutting of animal horn. Hand finishing. | ||