Generative Structure

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Ongoing explorations into the generation of structure and its opposite.

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Monogram pattern exploration

February, 2025

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Custom monogram for a friend’s upcoming Bat Mitzvah.

February, 2025

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February, 2020

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August, 2020

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Disturbance

August, 2017

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Sphere

February, 2021

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Circles in circles

November, 2021

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Circles in circles

November, 2021

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Circles in circles

November, 2021

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The final piece has a depth of form, texture and color that was the result of the combined design, fabrication, construction, structural, ceramic and glazing know-how of an amazing team. @darinazlateva , Asli Oney, Tulip Yeung, @leguse , Laura Karnath, Andy Brayman, @anne_currier and everyone at @bostonvalleyterracotta

August, 2019

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Ok, even on an account full of strange things, this one may be particularly strange. This was part of an amazing collaboration with @kohnpedersenfox and @bostonvalleyterracotta during the Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop in 2019. The idea was to add a custom #3dprinted roller to the end of a standard die extrusion mechanism for a deeper exploration into the interaction of surface texture and glaze.

August, 2019

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A fully resolved parametric #rhino3d was essential to the successful planning of the #geneticstair fabrication, delivery and installation process.

January, 2010

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Spherical meander

February, 2018

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This was an extremely fun material study done with @marblefairbanks . It’s nice to see the same geometry made initially with #3dprinting then #cnc milled out of different grades of plywood.

February, 2018

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March, 2020

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I actually have no memories making this but it’s kind of soothing to watch

May, 2020

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Blocks and shadows

February, 2014

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During my time as a “digital potter” I made a lot of vases with a lot of faces. But along the way I’d also get special requests. If I remember correctly, this was an entire extended family. I remember the layout algorithm got quite complex to fit that many faces on one vase without one interfering with the next. I think my record was 16 faces, but I’d have to check.

October, 2015

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I like how the structure here builds up along the edges first

November, 2017

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February, 2018

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I love rotational geometries. They’re like the best kind of simple magic trick. This animation shows the path of an oloid as it rolls down an inclined surface.

February, 2021

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Just a quick splash of color on a Sunday morning

April, 2019

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It’s all about evolution and change

November, 2018

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In another former life I was working on a massive international airport project for a bit. This was part of my musings on grids, constraints and freedom. I feel somehow like there’s still a lot of stuff here to be explored.

May, 2018

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Tiling exercise

July, 2016

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Digital carving exercise

February, 2017

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Digital stippling exercise

March, 2018

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Another nice g. This one I especially like around :04 and :06.

October, 2017

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A sphere of circles

June, 2017

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I love it when I’m surprised by these generative studies. This one starts as a simple exploration of lines and connections, but once you add line thickness as a variable, by about :04 the whole thing starts to look like a Keith Haring composition. Then the line thickness gets really fat and it becomes something else. So somewhere there exists an optimal arrangement of line thickness and spacing to achieve heightened Haringness. We’ll call that the Haring Zone.

April, 2017

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It may not look like much now, but back in 2008, this video was kind of like a Meisterbrief for early investigations into coding and design. In the days before visual scripting interfaces (or even modern coding languages in Rhino), work like this was difficult and painstaking. Which is why it was such a pleasure working on it together with @fadometer whose deep research into design and textiles remains an inspiration.

December, 2008

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Turns out I was wrong the other day, these are the images that ended up on the @bcakeny

May, 2017

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Birthing images are usually most interesting to those directly involved, but for the sake of completeness, here’s a #timelapse

September, 2017

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Different starting conditions lead to different outcomes

May, 2019

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I really enjoy exploring growth in all its manifestations. I love how a few simple rules, repeated over time, can lead to unexpected complexity.

May, 2019

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I fell in love with the German language a long time ago. One of the reasons is the vocabulary. Even the word “vocabulary” in German is “word treasure.” How good is that? And while the long German words can turn heads, I have a special fondness for the short ones.

February, 2018

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I like this one so much @miriammilord and @bcake put it on a cake

December, 2017

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The final frame of this has been my desktop background for years.

July, 2017

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What’s interesting about this study is how deceptively simple it is. It’s a grid of equally spaced lines that rotate and subtly change shade. That’s it.

August, 2021

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Another color study. Perfect for a spring day.

September, 2016

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I remember this was one of my first experiments sketching with dynamic physical system

September, 2016

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Saint Jerome

January, 2017

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A little digital chiseling

March, 2019

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Step 2: Use the generative system to create an awful lot of geometry for #3dprinting

December, 2018

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Step 1: Figure out a generative system that allows for formal variation while allowing for fast, single-layer #3dprinting

December, 2018

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Usually when I dig up an old sketch like this, I can tell immediately how I’d set up the physical system to make the drawing. This one is simple, but for some reason it’s not so obvious. I may have to find the file, because I like the subtlety of the result.

December, 2017

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So glad I had my handy first-generation smartphone on me to take this shaky video. The original brief was to create a stair that could stand as a sculpture amid a world-class collection of contemporary art. So it really should be experienced from all sides. Oh yeah, those beautiful full-height doors in the back were also designed and fabricated by @caliperstudio

May, 2009

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Every time I think I’m out of the aeolian geomorphology game, @stoicrise pulls me back in! In reality, there’s so much about these research papers that fascinates me. In general, it’s about setting up some simple rules up front and then letting the system play out. Order arises out of apparent chaos. Or out of nothing.

April, 2023

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A friendly blob

June, 2017

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That time when @stoicrise and I had a lot of fun digitally exploring aeolian geomorphology

January, 2014

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#wip 100 topos. Inspired by @stoicrise and @house.of.sada

March, 2023

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A nice little amalgam

June, 2017

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Same input, different outputs

February, 2016

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July, 2016

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A simple aggregation with a few nice details

February, 2020

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The rare color study

September, 2016

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Les machines sont bien plus que les hommes coutumières des jeux de mots.

November, 2016

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Il ne faut pas cracher sur les jeux de mots. Les plus mauvais vont aux meilleurs amis. C’est l’ineffable prix de l’intimité.

November, 2016

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The old #3dprinter takes a bit of love these days, but it’s still nice to watch

May, 2022

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One of my favorite projects from my time @caliperstudio The original idea came from an unrealized architectural façade project and algorithmic explorations, but the project only got better with the input from and collaboration with amazing, knowledgeable metalworkers and craftsmen.

May, 2008

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When my son was about seven or eight, he was really into chess. So I decided to design and make him his own set. A system of physical forces was set up to act on a basic cylindrical mesh. By changing the connections and relative strength of the tensile forces within each piece, the overall shape could be manipulated. Because the different shapes are created using the same generative system, there are inherent formal affinities relating pawn to bishop, bishop to knight, knight to rook and so on. The different pieces work together to form a family of taut and distinctly modern sculptural gestures.

January, 2016

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This sketch brought to you by the letter “g”

August, 2016

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Chiton series

February, 2019

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There’s something vaguely unsettling about this on. Not sure what it is. Thoughts?

November, 2018

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Another study based on nodes, connection and movement.

May, 2017

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This was a friendly little form that was particularly well-suited to 3d-printing.

August, 2021

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I’ve been inspired by calligraphic mark-making since I first held a broad nib pen in junior high art class. For me, traditions of ornamental writing from around the world show clearly the generative power of combining simple graphic rules with human intuition and craft. This study combines the controlled chaos of a double pendulum kinetic system with the refined visual logic of an angled pen. Originally, I was interested in the marks themselves, but over time I started to appreciate the gestural qualities that are hinted at in the changes of speed and direction. Those aspects aren’t fully explored here, but I’m starting to think it’s something I should be looking at.

January, 2017

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This was a simple, but satisfying study on the effects of small discrepancies in a system as it plays out over time. The base layer of this form is created by plotting something like 120 points in a perfect circle. For each step up the z-axis a certain degree of “drift” is added and the points are moved ever so slightly in the x-y plane. Over time, these random inaccuracies build up to form discernible patterns, ultimately creating a strong, rigid shape especially well-suited to 3d-printing.

May, 2016

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I made this in January, 2018. I don’t remember the specifics, but I know I was feeling overwhelmed by the seeming hopeless of our politics. So I made what is possibly the weakest-ass, no-risk “protest” statement you could imagine. But what’s funny is that I keep coming back to it. When things are messed up, sometimes a simple acknowledgment of the shit show is an important first step. No, this is not normal.

January, 2018

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This ongoing study (which I’ve always just called “glyphs”) is about taking letterforms as raw materials to be used for growing new designs. The idea is something I’m passionate about and I hope to pick up this work in some form again soon.

February, 2016

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This is one of my favorites because it’s so incredibly simple. There’s nothing 3d going on here. It’s just a chain of dots working their way through flat space. It’s how they interact with each other, when traced over time that gives the impression of a sinuous, silky, undulating landscape. But it’s just dots. Moving in two-dimensional space.

December, 2017

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I remember I was working on something much more elaborate and ambitious, but at a certain point this little circle made of circles did this thing. And it was good. Really not sure what happened with the other thing I was working on.

October, 2019

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The setup of this study is pretty simple. A bunch of circles in a frame. And the result is to be expected. A highly structured arrangement of bodies. But there are two or three seconds there in the beginning where things go wild. There are territorial battles and border skirmishes. The structure that will eventually take hold is not yet clear. It’s a moment of possibility.

July, 2017

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There’s not much to this. I was doing dishes and there was something so simple and so good about how these repetitive elements (bowls) came together to create a new geometry that adhered to a different set of rules. There’s probably something more profound to be discovered, but it hasn’t happened yet. And the dishes never got done.

March, 2018

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I’m a bit obsessed with letterforms. They’re what I always come back to for inspiration. They’re all around us and they are to me everything that is good about humans. Try as they might, they can’t shake themselves of the human hand. Every day they are pushed, pulled and stretched but they carry history within their curves and straights. That can’t be erased.
The lower case g in renaissance-era fonts is particularly good. It has two holes. And it doesn’t sit on the baseline like you think it might. Oh and that thing at the top, that’s called an ear.

October, 2017

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One day I made an awful lot of geometry. I’m always interested in creating systems to make objects. In this case the forms themselves were constrained by a desire to have them quickly 3d-printed. I translated 2d physics simulations between rigid bodies with the z-axis representing the time component of the interactions. That methodology actually corresponds very well to additive manufacturing processes which mostly require one layer to be printed over the previous layer in a sequential manner. I printed a few hundred of these things at one point and they still show up in random drawers when I’m looking for a screwdriver.

December, 2018

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This is part of a large series of studies investigating matters of visual control and agency in graphic production using simulated physical properties and behaviors. This one in particular is special, because it is the only one of thousands of such studies to take physical form as a giclée print. I told myself I’d use the money from its sale to print myself a version of equal quality to hang on the wall, but then COVID happened.

November, 2018

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While not the most sophisticated or most beautiful, this exploration is important to me because it lit a spark. The end of grad school for me was full of lectures on how “algorithms” would transform design. Seemed plausible, but without having ever written a line of code, it was all pretty abstract. Then I decided to see if I could make a kinky line straight. I agonized over these fifty-odd lines of VBScript (zero stars, would not recommend), but as I started to figure out how to draw geometry to the screen, a funny thing happened. Those squiggles started to straighten out.

Created November, 2005

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One of many #3dprinted lighting projects. This one happens to have a place of honor above our kitchen counter.

September, 2017

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September, 2019

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Chiton series

February, 2019

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And for the nerds out there, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that the connections were made to work with standard #ikea pendants

September, 2017

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Some images of the lights as installed in our kitchen

September, 2017

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As much as I believe in the power of #3dmodeling, there’s nothing like a good #2d drawing to cut to the heart of a project.

February, 2009

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Looking back at this with a bit of distance, the crazy thing isn’t that one fully resolved parametric model was made. It’s that thousands of them were made.

December, 2008

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Step 3: #3dprint geometry and catalog the results.

March, 2019

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September, 2019

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This one happens to have pride of place in our living room

February, 2017

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I honestly don’t really know where to begin with this project. It was one of the great joys of my life to be able to work on a design so passionately with a team of amazing people equally committed to stretching our comfort zone to make something great. @tycole already took the definitive pictures, but I have hard drives full of my own images that have special meaning to me. These decidedly unprofessional shots are from my first day visiting the fully assembled and finished stair after literally years, of dreaming, coding, modeling, tweaking, assembling, grinding, polishing and pushing. Over a decade later and I continue to be amazed by @caliperstudio and their ability to make great things.

May, 2009

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It may not look like much now, but back in 2008, this video was kind of like a Meisterbrief for early investigations into coding and design. In the days before visual scripting interfaces (or even modern coding languages in Rhino), work like this was difficult and painstaking. Which is why it was such a pleasure working on it together with @fadometer whose deep research into design and textiles remains an inspiration.

December, 2008

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May, 2017

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Sup Syrup? That time I designed and #3dprinted a very special Christmas gift memorializing my daughter’s favorite catch phrase.

December, 2018

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These are a few images from one of the most fun, challenging and overall weirdest periods of my life. For those of you who didn’t follow that journey, here’s a quick recap of how I ended up on the Today Show (I’ll put some links in the bio.) In May 2014, my wife and I had two small kids and I had been too busy with an architecture competition I was working on to think about Mother’s Day. But as it happened I had the day before free and the office where I was working had just gotten a new 3d printer. So I snapped some shots and headed in to make a vase. About a half year later, some friends convinced me to take the parametric design tool I’d created and put it to work for other people selling vases on Kickstarter. 3d printers are fun and I thought this could be a way to get my own. So after convincing my extremely patient wife to help me put together a cringy Kickstarter launch video (link in bio), Fahz was born. (“Fahz -It’s your face in a vase!” Get it???) …

May, 2017

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I like constraints. So #3dprinting has always been a tricky area of investigation for me, because the ruling ethos is that a #3dprinter can “make anything”. While that’s certainly more true than, say, working with a bandsaw, experience has shown there are forms that are more suited to a layer-by-layer, bottom-up way of making. These images are just a few experiments with those types of forms.

September, 2019

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I’ve worked on a lot of #3dprinted lighting projects over the years, but this one with @adam_yarinsky remains one of my favorites, because of the way we dug into the #details . The goal was to integrate the new shade with a beautiful, minimal stainless steel fixture already in place. The solution takes advantage of custom tapered connection pieces more easily fabricated with 3d printing than traditional techniques.

May, 2017

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Interior planter #2 installed

August, 2022

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September, 2019

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This video shows that the two light shades in my living room are actually the same light shade.

February, 2017

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