Illusory Material

Reinventing material expressions with lenticular 3D printing

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Illusory Material printed models

Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

Illusory Material is a design philosophy, computational workflow that enables the designer to create material with dynamic color & texture in a controlled way. It breaks down design medium into 'matter', restructuring and reinventing materiality with unique expressions, properties & experiences.

Imagine designing everyday products with ‘impossible’ materials that only exist in the digital world; imagine a future where designers can manipulate the color, texture, and refractivity of materials across time and different viewing angles; imagine that

Computational geometry covered by lenticular lens

Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

3D optical textiles printed on flex material

Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

"Loopop" - interactive lollipop

Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

"nseen" - minimalist perfume bottle

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Participants of this exhibition

Jiani Zeng

Honghao Deng

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About Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

Graduated from MIT & Harvard, Jiani and Honghao are award-winning innovators working in the intersection of design and emerging technologies such as IoT, tangible interfaces and voxel printing. Their work has been awarded with Red Dot Best of Best, IF, Architizer A+, Core77 Design Award, IDEA, A'Design Award Platinum & Gold, and featured by Domus, TechCrunch, INNOVATION, ARCHITECT magazine, Dexigner, Fast Compay, CCTV, the National and CBS.