Design with minimal intervention: Drawing with light and cracks

Nir Dick, Shani Reches, Naama Glauber, Maiayn Ben-Yona, Adi Yehezkeli, Anna Carmi, Moran Mizrahi, Amit Zoran

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Abstract

Industrial design focuses on minimizing fabrication variability, aiming for identical products, while craft practice often results in unpredictable outcomes. We rely on crackle, an explicit pottery phenomenon that renders a pattern of cracks in ceramic glazing, to produce craft-unique outcomes in a moderately controlled design process. With the help of a dedicated CAD tool and a laser machine, we embed artificial decorations in a crackle pattern. By preprocessing the clay and post-processing the glaze, we demonstrate a technique to partially control the typical size of cracks in a given area, thus embedding visual forms in the glaze.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages1107-1120
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9781450351980
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Jun 2018
Event2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 9 Jun 201813 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameDIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Conference

Conference2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2018
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period9/06/1813/06/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

Keywords

  • Ceramics
  • Computer-aided design (CAD)
  • Crackle
  • Craft laser
  • Glazing
  • Hybrid

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