Archive for the ‘mass customization’ Category
Michal will give a talk entitled “Digital Craft” at the Faculty of Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. It will be a discussion of computer aided manufacturing and design as tools enabling the creation of complex forms, often inspired by nature and contributing to developement of new business models based on the idea of [...]
Filed under: 06 talks, digital fabrication, digital paradigm, mass customization | Leave a Comment
Tags: Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie, Faculty of Design, Michal Piasecki, Wydział Wzornictwa
Michal’s new article on mass customization and the paradox of choice is published in 2+3d. The text features the works of Nervous System, Studio Ludens and Fluid Forms and touches on Michal’s PhD research subject – developing configurators which prevent the occurence of the paradox of choice. Michal is working on tools which enable intuitive [...]
Filed under: 07 texts, mass customization, online configurators | 6 Comments
Tags: 2+3d, Fluid Forms, mass customization, Michal Piasecki, Nervous System, Paradox of Choice, Studio Ludens
Michal tutored a 5 day Processing workshop for a master programme at Lund University’s School of Industrial Design. The workshop took place between 25th and 29th of October 2010. Many thanks to Andreas Hopf and Axel Nordin for the invitation. Below is the synopsis: Processing for Mass Customization Parametric modeling gains a significant influence on [...]
Filed under: 04 teaching, 05 programming, scripting, parametric modeling, CNC milling, configurators, mass customization, processing, workshops | Leave a Comment
Tags: Andreas Hopf, Axel Nordin, Lund University, Michal Piasecki, proce55ing, processing
Michal Piasecki’s recent design – Weaving Bowl – was selected for the final of Young Design 2010 competition organized by Warsaw’s Institute of Industrial Design (IWP). During the project presentation at IWP, taking place on June 2nd this year, Michal emphasized how mass customization paradigm shifts designers and users roles. Designers’ focus moves away from [...]
Filed under: 01 design, 05 programming, scripting, parametric modeling, 06 talks, Breeding Objects, configurators, digital fabrication, generative design, mass customization, online configurators, printing in 3d | Leave a Comment
Tags: Institute of Industrial Design, Instytut Wzornictwa Przemysłowego, IWP, Michal Piasecki, Young Design, Young Design 2010
Many thanks to everyone who decided to participate in the Breeding Objects Experiment 01. My initial hypothesis was that configurators with artificial selection in a GA implemented may prove to be a better tool to navigate through solution spaces with larger amount of dimensions. In other words, genetic algorithms are better tools to look for [...]
Filed under: mass customization, genetic algorithms, 03 research, configurators, evolutionary algorithms, breeding objects experiment 01, breeding objects experiment 02 | 1 Comment
Tags: Federico Weber, Voronoi diagram, Xylem
Breeding Objects Experiment 01
Breeding Objects Experiment 01 is my first experiment with configurators for mass customization of products over the Internet, conducted as part of PhD research at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies. The experiment is a comparison of two types of configurators: “parametric” configurators and genetic algorithms configurators. In parametric configurators users have to specify the [...]
Filed under: generative design, mass customization, 05 programming, scripting, parametric modeling, genetic algorithms, online configurators, 03 research, evolutionary algorithms, Breeding Objects, breeding objects experiment 01 | Leave a Comment
Evolve rings where commissioned and are distributed by Fluid Forms. I have co-designed them together with Krystian Kwiecinski and they are available for purchase since today. They where designed with an aid of an artificial selection in genetic algorithm (GA). I have developed the phenotype together with Krystian and then wrote a purpose-built GA tool [...]
Filed under: 01 design, 05 programming, scripting, parametric modeling, digital fabrication, evolutionary algorithms, generative design, genetic algorithms, mass customization, printing in 3d, processing | 3 Comments
Tags: Fluid Forms, GA, jewelry, Krystian Kwiecinski, ring
There where three sessions on MCPC devoted entirely to configurators. Before moving on to discuss them, let’s answer a question: “what is a configurator?”. The definition provided by Configurators Database is a good answer: “Simply put, a configurator is a software application for designing products exactly matching customers’ individual needs.” B2C online product configurators are [...]
Filed under: 03 research, 06 talks, conferences, configurators, mass customization, online configurators | Leave a Comment
Tags: B2C Online Product Configurators, MCPC 2009
MCPC 2009: Personalization
Michal Piasecki attended Mass Customization and Personalization conference in Helsinki (MCPC 2009), where he presented the Review of B2C Online Product Configurators. There where couple of really interesting issues raised during these intensive two days and I would like to begin with discussion of the term “personalization”. Posts on automation in architecture as well as [...]
Filed under: 03 research, 06 talks, conferences, mass customization, personalization | Leave a Comment
Tags: Bruce Kasanoff, MCPC 2009, Sunnika and Brage
