ISD in full flow

The students from 1st year Interior Design have certainly not taken long to find their feet with us here in the Wood Workshop. Currently working on a project to be based in Portabello Market, they are building stalls and personal objects to be set up next week at the West London location. So far so good and the results have been varied, fun and interesting to see being built coupled with some really good team work. Below are some images taken from the last week as the project continues to gather pace.

Small Works seems even smaller lately as lots of interesting work is made. 

Weng lends some much needed muscle to take this rocking horse apart.

How would you like your eggs done? 

 Formed!

 A healthy bit of recycling taking place.

One of the 3rd year ISD contemplating his next move

We lost count of the amount of different objects and bits in this very intriguing stall. 

Very nice little detail on this rotary arm 

Handy work on the Bandsaw 

The 3 rotary arms are fitted 

The components of this stall begin to take shape

and are placed together to create the form 

Nice use of coat hangers to create this 3 dimensional shape 

At the end of the day we all go home.... 

and then get straight back to it the next day 

Great example of how a really good sketch model helps you when making a full size piece  

A thoroughbred if ever there was one!  

3D Printing at Chelsea

Last week the exciting world of 3D printing visited the workshops of Chelsea College. Organised by Isabelle, who runs the Laser cutting room here, representatives from  3D printer specialists EMCO were on hand to demonstrate and answer any questions we had regarding this exciting way of creating three dimensional objects and forms. The only question remains........will we get one for ourselves some day soon?
Below are some images taken from the afternoon.

An expectant crowd starts to gather for the demonstration.

We had lots of examples to interact with. Produced from refined Gypsum powder these objects were tough and durable as well as several having moving parts and high levels of intricate detail.

Incredible details are achievable with these machines.....

...as well as life like finishes. 

The 3D scanner unit 

The scanner in use. This machine scans in an object taking in all of its sides, shapes and contours. 

The information is fed into a computer were it is cleaned up, smoothed, filled and flattened ready for it to be printed 3 Dimensionally. 

The 3D printer being readied  

A block of powder holds the form tight whilst it is being formed. 

Layers are printed one at a time. This form had around 140 layers making up the 15mm thick object!

Whilst the form was printing we were shown the process of infiltrating. This is were the form, which is reasonably stable but rather delicate, is coated with Z bond (super glue) to seal and harden the surface.  

Having been dipped it is dried 

and in a matter of minutes the object becomes much harder.

The last few layers of our form are added. 

When the final layer is done the powder is vacuumed away  

and finally we are left with our form. 

It is placed into the blowing unit  

where carefully, a jet of air is blown to remove any of the remaining powder. 

Our object is now ready to be infiltrated. 

Isabelle gets this job and dons a suitable pair of gloves for dealing with the Z bond. 

Dried. 

Done.

Displayed.

New Year ISD Induction

Happy New year to everyone. We kicked off the new term with the 1st year students from BA Interior Design who joined us for their workshop induction. As always the Wood workshop put on an all singing and dancing show culminating in the students getting involved with some materials and machinery as part of a small making project we set for them. The end results were generally very good and we enjoyed the two days with them all. Below are some images taken during their time with us.

 

In come one of the groups ready for their session with us 

 All signed in and aprons on. Time to make a start

Phil kicks things off with an in depth look at hand tools 

As their project nears completion they get to pin their work on a display board 

Always tricky when everyone is watching! 

Phil demonstrates the art of rasping 

The chaps were pretty scarce over the two days but these two got to grips with the Fretsaw 

These girls were busy sanding their pieces 

Weng captivates this group. 

Phil enjoying showing these two how to use the pin gun