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
Designer South Rauceby, Linconshire / United Kingdom
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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 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.
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