Equilibrium Lamp
Post-consumer recycled PP #5 plastic and lamp parts
7.5” diameter x 30” tall
2024
Photos: Calvin Anderson
Equilibrium is a lamp designed to showcase the irregularities that happen when melting recycled plastic. The plastic is collected from a network of local households that donate their plastics to the studio.
The plastic is sorted, shredded, and extruded to make the lamp base. Although it is all #5 plastic, different companies use different blends which sometimes react when melted together.
Amplify pen stand
Recycled PETG #1 plastic
4” x 4.75” x 2.75”
2024
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Amplify
Desk organizerRecycled PETG #1 plastic
2023
Originally designed in 2018 with the concept that the design could be distributed and scaled to fit any 3D printer on the market. With each scale shift the form affords different uses. At the smallest scale it functions as a business card holder and pen holder, at medium scale a desk organizer, at large scale a mail sorter or a place to store books and magazines. Five years later, the design is revisisted with the ability to be realized at the various scales outlined.
Photos: Calvin Anderson
Available for purchase: click here
Small: 3D Printed with Kuka Robot
4.5” x 4” x 2.5”
Medium: Desktop 3D printed
6” x 7.25” x 3.75”
Medium: 3D Printed with Kuka Robot
6” x 7.25” x 3.75”
Large:
3D Printed with Kuka Robot
10” x 14.75” x 8”
Learning through making.
- Building tools- Developing processes
- Retrofitting existing tools
- Creatively misusing tools and processes
- Iteratively learning from each object and project
- Embracing flaws and trying to make them the focal point
Photo^^^ - Kameron Herndon for Walker Art Center
Photo^^^ - Robin Carlson Dong for Chicago Botanic Garden
Photo^^^ - Nathan Keay
Trace Chair
Shredded PP(polypropylene) #5 plastic chairs recycled from alleys and dumpsters, welded steel frame
44 x 27 x 36 in
2023
Process:
The Latin root animare means "give breath to" and "endow with spirit." The plastic that forms this piece was found in the form of broken plastic Adirondack Chairs in alleyways around West-Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois.
