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Artists Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link came to NextFab via the DesignLab project at Moore College of Art. They proposed constructing a simple, organic rock form using NextFab's digital fabrication equipment. Working with the artists, NextFab developed a Rhino model of the rock, which was digitally divided into sections and cut from acrylic on NextFab's laser cutter. Gabriel and Preston then assembled the 150-plus sections into the complete ROCK sculpture.

This presentation model was fabricated for OLIN Studio by both NextFab staff and OLIN designers. NextFab printed the bridge model on the Stratasys Dimension 3D printer, and fabricated the presentation base from basswood. OLIN staff cut the basswood topographic layers on NextFab’s Trotec Speedy 500 laser engraver, and assembled the finished model. NextFab also fabricated a custom crate to protect the model during shipping. 

OLIN is a landscape architecture, urban design and planning practice with studios in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

This is an aluminum sign for the marketing firm Mighty Engine, displayed at the entrance to their new office in Old City. Mighty Engine approached NextFab with a design, and a some ideas about materials they'd like to use. We settled on aluminum, cut on NextFab's ShopBot CNC router, and hand-painted to highlight Mighty Engine's logo and and name. The sign is cut from 1/4" thick aluminum, and is nearly 4' x 4' in size. NextFab also designed a custom mounting system to 'float' the sign off the wall, and to make installation secure and easy.

Artist Robert Fedirko Jr. approached NextFab with a design for a wall-mounted tree, listing the names of donors to the new Parent-Infant Center space in West Philadelphia. Working with Robert, NextFab developed a fabrication strategy and designed a mounting system for the tree. The tree was cut and carved using NextFab’s CNC router, and is now permanently installed in the entry of the Parent-Infant Center.

The Chair was designed using SolidWorks and Adobe Illustrator. The seat and back were milled from Baltic Birch plywood on the ShopBot. The frame was cut from mild steel with the TorchMate II Plasma Cutter and assembled using MIG welding. Ross Kessler developed this design for a contemporary furniture class at the University of Pennsylvania. Prototypes for the class were featured in an exhibit at the ICFF 2011.

A color 3D model of a water-soluble peptide was made based on the crystallographic experimental coordinates (www.PDB.org).   The peptide model was 'fine-tuned' (color, scale & representation) in PyMol before being converted to a VRML file format and 3D printed in NextFab Studio's Z-Corp Spectrum Z510 3D printer. Tech Supervisor Derek Spence of NextFab has developed techniques which allow us to push the limits of the 3D printing process and successfully build models of this complexity.

This felt necklace, inspired by binary code, was laser cut for Maria Eife Designs.

A modern dish-rack fabricated for a client.

A vertical bike rack designed by NextFab Studio for Solutions for Progress.

Vinyl decals printed and cut on the Roland VersaCAMM for PENN Electric Racing.

Made with the Roland VersaCAMM SP-300i color print/cut system.

Manta & Snarl: Custom luminaire designs by NextFab Studio for Jet Wine Bar.

This sculptural installation was CNC plasma cut on the Torchmate for artist Joseph Jaludi.

A lion claw was scanned on the Next Engine 3D Scanner, enlarged, then milled on the Roland MDX-540SA for a client.

Milled on the Shopbot PRSAlpha

Table design by Cheng+Snyder
Photo taken by Mark Sebastian Stehle

Vinyl cut wall graphics for  Reiko Sudo: Nuno Circle exhibit at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University.

Printed on the Z-Corp Spectrum z510 Full-Color.

Concept copyrighted by Jacques-Jean Tiziou for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

Customizable system of laser-cut bins that can squarely divide any drawer and label its contents, utilizing representations from the original packaging.
 

Clock face with a graphic of Guam produced on the TorchMate II Plasma Cutter.

A NextFab Studio table designed and crafted for Maker Faire New York, 2010.