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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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A brand that captures your mind gains behavior. A brand that captures your heart gains commitment.
This is a brand book. Its main purpose is to share with you our brand vision. In this way, it puts us both on the same wavelength in order for us to create a strong connection with you for future makings together. This book is written especially for you, and you are an Aalto student. In this way when you come to visit you will feel like you already know us very well. Inside this book we will take a look at our brand vision, and paint a clear image that embodies the promise we make to you. We will look into our pillars, that stand on strong and rooted values. We will journey on our backstory, our future story, and showcase some works. This book also includes a section dedicated for a material production made - in the FabLab and for the FabLab - because we believe in taking theory and making it tangible.
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The laboratory of people and their Experiments; a space that has everything to make anything� ABOUT THE FABLAB
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FABLABS
AALTO FABLAB
A FabLab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop for digital fabrication, started by MIT. In a Fablab you can find machines such as the lasercutter, vinyl cutter, desktop CNC milling machine and 3D printer and electronics prototyping equipment.
The Aalto fablab stands out from the other fablabs around the world, mainly because it lies in the heart of a university. In its nature, it strives for excellence. It crosswes disciplines within education, cultures, and possibilities. It is our job as a fablab to provide the tools, the space, and the assistance in order to create early prototypes and eventually finished products. These have meaning, are backed by research, and are done through peer collaboration and a strong student community.
The FabLab makes this equipment available and free to everyone, no exception and throws in on the spot assistance
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The Aalto fablab stands out from the other fablabs around the world, mainly because it lies in the heart of a university. In its nature, it strives for excellence. It crosswes disciplines within education, cultures, and possibilities. It is our job as a fablab to provide the tools, the space, and the assistance in order to create early prototypes and eventually finished products. These have meaning, are backed by research, and are done through peer collaboration and a strong student community
Electronics
experimentation
lazer cutting
milling
courses
3d modelling
3d printing
new things
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vinyl cutting
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hacking
community
inventing
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AALTO FABLAB VISION
This is the Aalto FABLAB; Aalto University’s manufactory. This is an ever-evolving and driven place where everything meets digital fabrication to test, to make, and to experiment. It is a stimulating space of physical possibilities, that turns theories into physical things. Where a philosophical argument, a scientific experiment, a designed product, and a business idea can be prototyped, tested, and put out.
The best way to use the FabLab is to use it to prototype projects you are working on, from sciences to art,
It is a place where people and experiments meet technology and collaboration. A potent place to make things.
from architecture and design to computer engineering. Even business ideas and social sciences need a prototype. Even methodologies can be prototyped.
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We believe in the solidification of theory, the unification of disciplines, and the positive implications of testing and prototyping of anything. It is a multidisciplinary exploration, and evolution. We believe that everyone must fail harder, that failure brings out success, and that technology is free and accessible to everyone with a purpose. This book allows us to unite all our minds, and enter the Lab with a unified goal. A goal of documenting, researching, and using technology to give rise and place to new ideas. Creating objects with meaning, creating platforms of multidisciplinary collaboration.
What does the plus sign signify? The plus sign stands for addition and repetition + more addition and repetition. The fundamentals of prototyping.
Why in circles? This project aims to take a scientific notion (petri dish experimentation) and couple it with technology to make art.
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Creating a product that aims to embody the brand principles behind the AALTO FABLAB brand
This method is then used to show the stages of prototyping and that each circle alone is rubbish without the other circles. It is context that gives meaning. All the rubbish together make a coherent peice.
this does not look like a product of the fablab That is because the base is made out of plaster which is made in another department at the school. This aims to show that not all products need to come alive from scratch at the FabLab but they can continue or get extra parts from there.
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material object showcasing the protoyping aspect of the FabLab
a project on prototyping
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It also shows that there isn’t a certain look that dominates all the products emerging with this rapid protoytping.
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testing 3d printer
laser cutting acrylic and comparing forms
first imperfection due to base miscalculation
laser cutting plywood and comparing forms
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superposition of elements
cross between capping and non capping
cross between materials plywood /acrylic
testing different forms of filling
cross between 3 elements
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repition and superposition manual assembly
repition and superposition manual assembly with cross of material
future prototypes