I am only just discovering the amazing things that can be achieved with 3D printing in the realm of design. What a wonderful tool!
So for all you map lovers and chocolate lovers. Check out this gorgeous and delicate 3D Printed Chocolate version of Tokyo by Naoko Tone and Atsuyoshi Iijima. It was all part of an exhibition about chocolate at the 21_21 Design Sight space in Tokyo some time ago.
As a lover of natural textures, I can't help but admire these woodcut prints by Bryan Nash Gill. He makes relief prints of tree-trunk cross sections and blocks, which he harvests from felled trees, cedar telephone poles and discarded fence posts in his native Connecticut.
I love his method of cutting the blocks with a chain saw, sanding them down, burning them and sealing them with a lacquer before imprinting the result on a piece of washi paper. It seems to amplifies the patterns and tells the story of the life of the tree.
Unfortunately these gorgeous prints are a bit out of reach for me, but the book that will do just the trick.
