Prototyping

In-house 3D printing: replacement parts and custom housings, made the same week they are needed.

An orange 3D-printed rosette beside the original cast metal part it replaces, with a screw.

Client

In-house

My role

Creative direction, creative strategy, 3D design visualisation and graphic design

Delivered with

NeosCreative

Sector

In-house capability

Services

3D printing & prototyping

Type

Capability, not a stand

Year

2019–2020

Location

Studio

Experience

The photographs show the loop rather than a finished thing: parts laid out in the slicer, the printer set to PLA with a 0.4mm nozzle, then the results on the bench. One is an orange replacement rosette sitting beside the cast metal original it stands in for. The others are white housings made to hold hardware — a bracket cradling a PIR motion sensor, a mounting plate with a small electronics module clipped into it — which is the quiet part of interactive stand work: the sensor exists, but nothing exists to mount it where the design wants it, so you print that.

Written from the photography in the archive, dated 2019 and 2020. Please confirm which projects these parts were made for.

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