{"id":1445,"date":"2012-06-20T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1445-designer-spotlight-alia-hasan.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:19:14","slug":"designer-spotlight-alia-hasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/designer-spotlight-alia-hasan","title":{"rendered":"Designer Spotlight: Alia Hasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks Designer Spotlight focuses on Alia Hasan, of <a href=\"\/shops\/archetypez\">Archetype Z Studio<\/a>, an architect with a flair for jewelry design.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alia-vegas2.jpeg\" alt=\"Alia Hasan Shapeways Designer\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>What brought you to 3D printing with Shapeways?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I came across a website for another company that did 3D printing and was impressed at how far the technology had come along since I had used it briefly in grad school. The site was difficult to use and 3D printing was expensive so I searched for other companies until I finally came across Shapeways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>How did you learn how to design in 3D?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I did my undergraduate degree at Berkeley in Architecture and took a FormZ class to learn 3D modeling (at the time we didn&#8217;t use computers in the architecture studio courses so you had to take a separate course in it). After graduating I did a little bit of 3D modeling of architectural projects but it wasn&#8217;t until grad school at UCLA that I started using 3D software programs on a daily basis and really felt comfortable with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/model\/371179\/triangulated-cuff-size-small-other-sizes-availabl.html\" title=\"Shapeways Shops\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Triangulated_Cuff-3d_print_3.jpeg\" alt=\"Triangulated Cuff Shapeways\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>How would you describe your creative process?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I usually start with some concept or form I get fixated on and I sketch it out until I have a clear direction on what I want to model. Sometimes the modeling is just translating those sketches and sometimes the sketches are a jumping-off point and the design becomes something else. I&#8217;m not usually satisfied until I feel I&#8217;ve created something I feel is unique. And though I didn&#8217;t intend for it to be this way, my designs are inspired a lot by architecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>How do you promote your work?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To be honest I&#8217;m not very good at this&#8230; I try to use my facebook business page and have started using twitter. To really promote your work you have to do it consistently every day and I would much rather be designing!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Who are your favorite&nbsp;designers&nbsp;or artists?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Most of my favorite designers are architects &#8211; Shigeru Ban, Zaha Hadid, Foreign Office Architects, Herzog de Meuron&#8230; I could go on for a while but I&#8217;ll stop there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Who in the Shapeways community has served as an inspiration to you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I often find myself wasting hours on the Shapeways site because of checking out all the amazing things people come up with. A couple of my favorites are the Animarus creations by <a href=\"\/shops\/theojansen\" title=\"Shapeways Shop Theo Jansen\">Theo Jansen<\/a> and any of the product designs by <a href=\"\/shops\/michiel_cornelissen\" title=\"Shapeways Shops Michiel Cornelissen\">Michiel Cornelissen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>What&#8217;s your favorite material?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Concrete. Before architecture school I thought it was a horrible, ugly material. But after seeing so many amazing examples of concrete in architecture and seeing how it was this great fluid material that has a very pure quality in design, I learned to love it. It would be so cool to 3d print concrete but I guess the Polished Alumide will have to do for now. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>If you weren&#8217;t limited by current technologies, what would you want to make using 3D printing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I would love to design furniture that is made of one continuous form (no bolts or screws, or any adhesives to connect parts). I&#8217;d also love to design elaborate 3d printed food&#8230; I think I read recently that 3d printed food is already being done somewhere in a lab!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Check out her architectural designs at her Shapeways Shop&nbsp;<a href=\"\/shops\/archetypez\">Archetype Z Studio<\/a>&nbsp;or her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aliahasan.com\/Site\/Welcome.html\" title=\"Alia Hasan Website\">www.aliahasan.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"\/model\/277649\/faceted-cuff-in-size-small.html\/?material=62\" title=\"Shapeways Shops\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Faceted_Cuff_black3.jpeg\" alt=\"Faceted Cuff Shapeways\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks Designer Spotlight focuses on Alia Hasan, of Archetype Z Studio, an architect with a flair for jewelry design&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Faceted_Cuff_black3.jpeg","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Designer Spotlight: Alia Hasan - Shapeways Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This weeks Designer Spotlight focuses on Alia Hasan, of Archetype Z Studio, an architect with a flair for jewelry design. 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