2013 / Guilloché
Guilloché, a decorative engraving technique dating to the 17th century, uses machines to produce extremely intricate and precise interwoven surface patterns. Also called engine turning, guilloché has been used in metalwork, printed currency and official documents as a means of thwarting counterfeiters; that is, as marks of authenticity and value. Presented here are three selections from a series of cuffs created using a custom parametric computer script-- a virtual guilloché engine-- that produces these patterns in three dimensions. The cuffs are digitally manufactured using a laser sintering process in nylon: a light, strong and flexible material that produces no waste. Because the cuff geometry is generated parametrically and its production is digitized, there is no limit to the number of possible iterations.
Featured at ACADIA 2013, Toronto Design Offsite Festival 2014, and offered for sale at the Guild Shop, Yorkville, Toronto. For more information, see the FedDev Ontario Shift/Craft brief at OCADU. (PDF)
SLS nylon. Photography by Jesse Colin Jackson. Project supported by ARC Fed Dev Ontario.
