When asked to come up with an idea of a product to test under the laser cutter at NYDesigns by Design Glut. Jan Habraken & Alissia Melka-Teichroew decided that they had cut pretty much every material but food. This is where the hunt started, what foods can we cut or etch and also create something fun and something that would be too complicated to do manually (why else would you laser cut!). We decided sandwiches, pancakes, chocolate bars, sugar glass, tuna (can you imagine the seared edge the laser could make!). There was only time to etch some pancakes and cut some piggy “ham & cheese” sandwiches.
Laser Cutter Example: “Wooden Carpet” by Elisa Stroyzk (2010)
The project “wooden textiles” intends to look at the material wood in a new way. Geometric wooden pieces compose a flexible surface which can perform in different three-dimensional shapes. The material ranges between hard and soft, parquet and carpet, blurring relationships between furniture and textiles.
Laser cutter Example: “Dump Truck” by Wim Delvoye (2006)
His projects are typically related to constructions; it takes form of construction objects such as trucks and it is often made with materials such as cement and steel that are easily found in construction sites. He uses laser cutter to make the basis of his sculpture and curve in elaborate gothic patterns into it. Most of his laser cutting project has theme of Gothic.
Laser Cutter Example: “360 degree book panorama” series by Yusuke Oono (2012)
Her works are cut out elaborately and has a theme of Christmas, jungle, sweet home and all other festive season. She uses the book as an axis and each page of the book becomes a layer that has different stories of the same theme. She plans her work using 3D CAD programming and transform 2D surfaces to a rich visual sculpture using the laser cutter.