For the last hundreds of years everything in ceramics has been made by hands.The artists throwing clay on potter’s wheels which limited the shape. That’s why the shape of most of traditional ceramic pieces are round.
In the last couple of years, the 3D printer has made its way into almost every aspects of production and even arts. With the help of 3D printer, people can print every shape that they can or cannot image. The shape are not limited by tools any more.
Stratigraphic Porcelain
Stratigraphic Porcelain is a great project between VormVrij 3D and Unfold. It is a series of tableware which is designed for the ceramic 3D printer. They finish a production of 1,200 cups in 6 weeks.
3D printing can also help us save time and money. It can create mass production easily and people only need to buy clay material they need. It is good for environment because of no extra storage and shipping.
As the 3D printing bring us these benefit, it has kindled the debate about craftmanship dying out. Some people might claim that auto machine is complete opposite of traditional craft. Therefore, some 3D ceramic printer try to find a new way.
Taekyeom Lee
Taekyeom Lee is an educator, maker, and designer using the artist’s material and artistic sensibility. He received an MFA degree in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois and he is currently an Assistant professor of Graphic Design.
He taught himself to build and use a 3D printer with no prior background in robotics. He used it to create 3D-printed ceramic pieces. Each piece takes on different and intricate shapes and can be used in new ways.
It seems Taekyeom Lee tries to taking pottery into the future. He is not trying to use 3D printing to replace how ceramicists making works by traditional way but explore another ways.
A Brand-new Ways
Some artists find adding human interaction while printing will create new kind of works. They try to interfere with print while it was working, which makes some art works couldn’t done without either the printer or human interaction.
3D printers won’t be replacing human for a long time. They don’t necessarily just do our job better. These artists’ pottery doesn’t tells us to replace how we do things, but explore ways to add on to them.
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