Materialise.MGX • Cookie.MGX floor lamp
Produced by rapid manufacturing
MGX by Materialise combines art and technology by using rapid manufacturing to produce series of exceptional design goods. Their exclusive products are created through 3D-printing prototyping techniques – stereolithography and selective laser sintering – that offer almost unlimited freedom of design. The aim is to unleash a new era of mass customised design.
Private.MGX
Every year Materialise.MGX launches a new .MGX collection, to display the varying facets of the technology by themes. For the fourth collection 2007, MAXIMALdesign was also invited by Naomi Kaempfer, managing art director of Materialise.MGX, to reflect on the theme of ‘Private’. This theme aims to illustrate what it takes to create a curational design together, a menu of ideas and understanding of how our engagement with products can be enhanced by means of rapid manufacturing (additive fabrication) and digitization.
Cookie.MGX
The Fortune Cookie is a thin, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or vague prophecy, usually served with Chinese food as a dessert. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers (used by some as lottery numbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation. Despite the conventional wisdom, they were actually invented in California, USA, not China.
The .MGX fortune cookie by MAXIMALdesign is based on this tradition. It has an intruigeing and inspiring shape, but the fortune only shows when the light is turned on. It is projected onto the nearest surface and will brighten up your life…
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that” by Martin Luther King is one of the available quotes. “It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness” is another one. Soon there will be more.
We’re very proud to be the first Belgian designers at Materialise.MGX, in good company of Arik Levy, Dan Yeffet, Ross Lovegrove and other renowned colleagues. The .MGX Private Collection was introduced at Salone del Mobile 2007 in Milan.
Technique: SLA (stereolithography)
Material: Epoxy
Colour: Havana brown