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Digital Daiku by Mark Laban M A
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F urniture
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Materials: Maple wood
www.marklaban.com
Obsessive precision and accuracy, attention to detail, a profound knowledge of material and anonymity are some of the key hallmarks of traditional Japanese craft surprisingly now mirrored in digitally-aided manufacture. Digital Daiku interprets traditional Japanese aesthetic principals, exploring their possibilities to create furniture crafted using contemporary digital manufacturing processes. The furniture is characterised on one hand by sleek minimalism and subtle detail inspired by traditional temple architecture, and on the @_mark_laban_
other a refined rusticity informed by the Japanese tea house. Digital Daiku developed through a processdriven approach to design and draws inspiration from the manufacturing technique itself: a 3-axis CNC machine. The resulting objects are simultaneously a tribute and a challenge to traditional ways of making and our perceptions of craft, tools and the maker in the digital age.
mark.laban@hotmail.com