Seriously Playful.
Swiss, designing kinetic sculptures in beautiful old Prague. Mixing tradition with a modern twist and a dab of humor.
Using art as a medium to inspire and transmit know-how to artists and designers alike about what one can build with a minimalistic toolbox.
Elegant simplicity is hard.
I started prototyping automatas at age ten. Along this 20 year journey, I had to master my tools, wait for new technologies to emerge, build with those new technologies and finally tame complexity reliably.
In a way, I shaped these automatas as much as they shaped me.
20 years to master
I wish to leverage online manufacturing services. To do so, one needs get familiar with new fabrication methods. Sure, these methods, such as 3D printing, lack in precision. Yet such flaws can be designed away by leveraging complex integrated shapes previously impossible to manufacture.
And, where precision is really needed, one can revive century old techniques. The same techniques that my great great grand father employed when building his watches for the king of France.
That’s the challenge.
How?
Ideas are precious. Yet, ideas involving mechanisms, capitalizes themselves on an expensive array of tools. That is, until recently.
In the last decade, through the magic of digitization -3D printing, laser cutting, etc.- all of us are able to bring complex mechanisms to life. This, without requiring any expensive equipment since you can order parts online or go to a maker space. Well.. almost.
I say -almost- because we’re not quite there yet. With your help, I wish to push the envelope further of what a laptop and simple hand tools can make. Exemplify new creative horizons. Inspiring you forward.
