This week we feature ‘The Art and Science of Touch,’ a look at designer maker Farah Bandookwala, who uses 3D designing and 3D printing in her work.

Farah Bandookwala has a MFA in Jewellery from Edinburgh College of Art (2010) and won one of the four Jerwood Makers Open 2011 awards for the sculptural interactive work the video illustrates. 

This is CAD, but not as you know it!

With the evolution of virtual touch and 3D printing, artist and designer Farah Bandookwala shows us how Haptics has revolutionised the way she works with computers.

Her latest collection of interactive sculptures were created for the Jerwood Makers Open, designed using Cloud9 and 3D printing, and were seen (and touched) at the exhibition at Jerwood Space in London in August 2011 and at the Dovecot in Edinburgh earlier this year.

Film by Siri Rodnes and David Liddell

The software Farah Bandookwala used for designing includes the haptic Cloud9 3D modelling package from Anarkik3D, who are currently using the crowdfunding platform indiegogo to help develop the Cloud9 software. 

Find out more about Crafts Council’s touring exhibition ‘Lab Craft: Digital adventures in contemporary craft’ at The Barony Centre, Craft Town Scotland.

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