psoa open studio 2013

The Peck School of the Arts held their Open Studio event at Kenilworth Studios last Saturday. We had a great turn out at the DCRL and the students did an excellent job of showing people various things that they've been doing in Digital Fabrication and Craft. We had free stickers, 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC drawings happening in the two DCRL spaces. It was so good to overhear the students talking with visitors and the purpose of the DCRL and explaining the processes that they are using to create work. So cool.

print:MKE 2013 part six

We had a lot of things set up in the DCRL for the conference. Michael E. and Bryan had the new drawbot set up, Jay had cut some linoleum blocks with the laser cutter, Raoul has a few of his woodcuts there, I made some free stickers and had some etching stencils set out, and artist Richard Forbes had his copper plate for top spinning set up in the fabrication lab. I think we had over 1,500 people in Kenilworth that night and I know at times I could barely move while standing in the output lab. It was crazy busy! We had the small router running, one of the 3D printers printing, vinyl cutter plotting, and Jay had his printing presses set up in the room as well. We had a great time and we met so many cool people.

dcrl decals

Today I made a lot of decals for the Southern Graphics Conference that is this week in Milwaukee. Come by on Thursday night if you want one of these. Jay Fox and I will be showing off some of Jay's latest experiments from the lab.

dcrl vinyl

Mike E and Aaron got the vinyl cutter up and running the other night. We had fun playing with it. Time for some signage.