ABSTRACT

The Industrial Revolution introduced mass production and millions of affordable and identical products, which turned into mass consumers of low-value, short shelf-life products. In Digital Forming®, the original designs (ODO) software allows designers to build an interaction experience that is delivered to the user using the codo user interface. This new design method allows designers to design virtual, production-ready products with a user interaction to experience a setup that enables the users to personalize and co-design the products better for themselves. The Osteon Chair is the first object to have an internal optimized support structure, which is referred to as “infill”. Designed in 2004 and produced in 2005, this project has historical significance as it was the first time an object’s internal porosity was designed and optimized to achieve a material usage of a third of the anticipated amount.