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Lionel Theodore Dean: Engineer, Designer, and Artist Lionel graduated from the Royal College of Art. London in 1987. He worked as an automotive designer, for Pininfarina in Italy, before launching his own consultancy business with a full-size concept car in the 1989 Tokyo Auto Salon. Initially focusing on small cars and motorcycles, lioners work spread from the mid-nineties into interior products, in particular lighting. Lionel's products are very much design led: through his work he seeks to explore the boundaries between Art and Design. In 2002 Lionel was appointed Designer in Residence at Huddersfield University where he began working on FutureFactories, a digital manufacturing (Rapid Prototyping) concept for the mass individualisation of products. The project has been a great success with acclaimed exhibitions in London and Milan. FutureFactories is the studio of Lionel T Dean. The practice is focussed exclusively on direct digital manufacturing; 3D printing, additive manufacturing or rapid prototyping technologies applied to the manufacture of end-use products The project began as a blue-skies university research project in 2002. It quickly expanded into a PhD thesis and then into commercial practice. FutureFactories aims to create added value through the design freedoms and the manufacturing flexibility of digital technologies. A key area of interest is the combination of computer scripts and CAD to create meta-designs with the capacity to change over time.

Lionel Dean

Industrial designer / South Rauceby, Linconshire / United Kingdom

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