OTHR: Making Modern-Day 3D Printed Heirlooms
At OTHR, aesthetic design and functional design come together in a unique and simple fashion. Working with some of the world’s finest established and emerging designers and with transformative technologies (such as 3D printing), OTHR creates an exclusive edit of ‘modern-day heirlooms’ on demand. The concept of ‘on demand’ ensures there is minimum wastage with very little impact on the environment: objects are made only when requested, thus conserving resources and negating the need for warehouse storage.Such prescribed standards embody the notion of good design, of ‘less, but better’. OTHR demands three principles of each product. It must be: ‘useful’ and have a purpose; ‘aesthetic’ with an artistic merit; ‘unique’ and designed exclusively for OTHR.In a world where immoderate consumerism is commonplace, where the need to consume ensures many objects are squandered, it is vitally important that we look for novel ways in which to manufacture and buy goods. OTHR was founded by New York-based designers Joe Doucet, Dean Di Simone and Evan Clabots. Individually successful designers, they visualised OTHR ‘as a vibrant hub for unique ideas and new possibilities in design.’ While OTHR’s varied objects are costly, future development in transformative technologies will, it is hoped, make such items accessible to a wider user base: to those people desirous of other (diffe...
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