WILL WE ALL BE DEVELOPING OUR OWN "NEEDS" IN THE FUTURE?
After the Ross Lovegrove experience, I needed to “digest” what I had seen. I went into the exhibition next to Lovegrove’s. “Imprimer Le Monde” but at a glance I could see that this was going to be as rich as what I had just seen. I would come back - and I did. We all know that digital technologies have revolutionised design and production making creators think quite differently about their work. “Printing the World” was in place to show us the 3D printed digital artefact. The digital age has spread to every field of production. Right from the start, I was fascinated by this printing feature and even looked into printers - that’s the gadget side of me - but why would I need one? I am not a creator. How much I was going to understand was another story. One point that really did make my eyebrows rise in surprise is that 3D was invented in 1860 by a certain François Willème who invented photo-sculpture. Then came the CAD (Computer-Assisted Design) in 1957 and in 1984 the first 3D pri