Printing Concrete...

A short (promotional) snippet from one of my alma matres, Loughborough University's Additive Manufacturing Research Group (AMRG) showing a large scale volumetric printing technology that provides a parallel and comparable 'slur-based' printing method to that developed by D-Shape's Enrico Dini...

Very cool and exciting indeed..!

Tasmeem - Synapse-Designer as Link - Conference & Workshop...

iphone image of the poster in front of VCUQ promoting the event...

Next week the Tasmeem - Synapse-Designer as Link Conference takes place... During the event I'll be conducting a (already sold-out?!) workshop titled, 'Exquisite Corpse Laser Cut Totem' during which we'll be conceiving just that, a quasi-randomly assembled and constructed laser-cut, layered cardboard, roughly five meter tall, totem...

Laser-Cut & Slumped Acrylic Bowl Prototype...

A few quick images of an initial prototype of a laser-cut and slumped acrylic bowl, roughly 45 by 55 by 15 centimeters in size...

More to come later...

Fire Fighting Features at the Traffic Gallery, Dubai...

A few images of the, in my mind quite ascetic and visually pleasing, fire-prevention equipment/ paraphernalia at the Traffic Gallery in Dubai...

Thank you Rami & Sharifa for your hospitality and great coffee...

Favorite Buildings - Burj Khalifa, Dubai

Wether one derides or admires the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, its audacity/ elegance (cheek/ boldness, superciliousness/ gravity...) is undeniable. Its delicately staccating and streamlined outline remains a sight to see and its presence and defining prominence in the city's skyline allows it to be used as an orientational tool from almost anywhere in Dubai...

Above and below are some images both of and from the burj.

A detail from the tower's lobby...

Above and below - images taken from the building's 124th floor...

The roof of the Mall of the Emirates...