Automake: set of digitally manufactured craftworks (i.e. produced using rapid prototpying and CNC technologies) arising from the Automake research project

These digitally crafted works form part of an output series from the Automake project. Automake combined generative systems with craft knowledge and digital production technologies to innovate participatory methods of designing and making that blur the boundaries between maker and consumer, craft and industrial production. Automake investigated the use of internet-based generative systems in the digital design of one-off works and their manufacture with digital manufacturing technologies., Started in 2006, this project is an example of early research into how online design tools can be combined with digital production technologies to create new forms of creative practice and models of business based on ‘consumer’ participation and individualisation of products. This field has substantially grown since the commencement of Automake in terms of economic growth and the number of systems and interfaces commercially utilised., The produced craft works produced have been internationally recognised: work has been included in nine curated exhibitions and a range of articles and papers (see the portfolio for evidence).