Archive for the ‘mass customization’ Category
Together with Sean Hanna, I have co-authored a paper: “Review of B2C Online Product Configurators”. The work was accepted for 5th World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC 2009), which is about to take place between 4th and 8th of October 2009 in Helsinki. I will discuss some of the issues mentioned in the [...]
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After finishing of the taught part of the Msc AAC I have now begun part-time work on PhD research. During the research I will be dealing with questions on how to facilitate user’s interaction with online configurators for mass customization (MC) of products through computation. First problem which I have encountered is what is referred [...]
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To continue the mass customization nomenclature debate – I have encountered the term “meta-design” in Lars Spuybroek’s text in Materialize MGX catalogue. The description accompanies the design of “Mylight” (above). The title: “We should breed objects like we breed rabbits” suggests usage of some kind of GA in the design process. Here is the whole [...]
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mass customization nomenclature
Guest post by Matt Sinclair at Fluid Forms blog made me think about the mass customization nomenclature in general. I think designing what was once called at Fluid Forms “Meta-Design” – meaning a framework for customization – could be called a process of design indeed. What customers do could, on the other hand, be called [...]
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I have just learned that Shapeways will be launching Beta Shops in 2009. The shops will enable designers to sell 3d printed objects directly to the customers. Designers’ responsibility will only be to upload a 3d model, while Shapeways will take care of all the rest (printing, shipping and customer service). Is it one of [...]
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Jujups.com is a customization website which offers a range of products (their personalized Christmas decorations maybe particularly relevant, since it is 22nd of Dec). It was created by Genometri, a Singaporean company specializing in online design solutions. To me, one feature of the website is very interesting. There is a possibility of sharing a personalized [...]
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customize your table on the go
I have just learned through Fluid Forms blog that Gramazio’s and Kohler’s mTABLE is available for purchase. All you need to do is to download the customization software to your cell phone, give it a go and send the data to the fabricators. The table will then be CNC milled. Is it the first example [...]
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It was quite unexpected to see an example of mass customization at an art fair such as Re:Visions (independent art fair, finished yesterday night in Warsaw), but Beata Sosnowska’s “Ból Trzeba Przeboleć” could be considered one. The original title is very hard to translate to English and stands for something like: You Need to Stand [...]
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As mentioned before I’m currently working on adjusting the Particles Ballet software from 2d motion picture generation tool (used for the Bix performance) to a tool for customization of 3d forms. This requires a new generative procedure, which goes away from the notion of unconnected strings. I have applied a procedure of connecting each particle [...]
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Ponoko’s new Photomake software has been talked about quite widely in the blogosphere over the weekend. But is it indeed such a “big step for user co-design and customization”? It eliminates the issue of customization interface and 3d modeling literacy (in a way, but on the other hand I haven’t yet seen anything truly 3d [...]
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