{"id":2602,"date":"2014-06-30T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/2602-designer-spotlight-elena-low-and-kae-woei-lim.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:03:54","slug":"designer-spotlight-elena-low-and-kae-woei-lim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/designer-spotlight-elena-low-and-kae-woei-lim","title":{"rendered":"Designer Spotlight: Elena Low and Kae Woei Lim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week we are featuring the lovely husband\/wife duo of XYZ Workshop<\/a>. Apart from their architecture jobs, Elena Low and Kae Woei Lim use XYZ Workshop as a creative outlet and also hope to promote 3D modeling and printing efforts with their imaginative work.<\/div>\n
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Tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? Where are you located?<\/em><\/div>\n
XYZ Workshop<\/a> was formed in early 2013, by Australian Architects, Elena Low and Kae Woei Lim. We are a husband and wife team that fell in love with 3D printing after we assembled our first Ultimaker 3D Printer and started playing around with Shapeways. We work on XYZ Workshop outside out 9 to 5 jobs using it as an additional creative outlet for our designs and ideas.<\/div>\n
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What’s the story behind your designs? What inspires you? <\/em><\/div>\n
Our designs have a level of playfulness which perhaps has been inspired by playing with our 1 and half year old son, Cooper. We want to bring him up in an environment that encourages creativity and instil a spirit of exploration and making. Although Cooper is still young and still running around in his nappies, we are hoping that in the near future, he will be make his own toys with the 3D printers, giving him access to a level of “making” and inventing that we never had when were we kids. <\/div>\n
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What brought you to 3D printing with Shapeways?<\/em><\/div>\n
Shapeways allowed us to push our designs to another level that we couldn’t achieve using desktop 3D printers. Our first Shapeways designs were a series of wireframe animal sculptures called Digital Safari, which was inspired after a trip to the zoo with our son. We were impressed by the quality of the finish and the level of service Shapeways had provided us. Check out this cute stop-motion animation video we did our our digital safari animals:<\/div>\n
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