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NNN: Human Printer

Nhan-Nhi Lillian Nguyen

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Nhan-Nhi Lillian Nguyen is a spatial designer from Honolulu, HI. She came to London in the pursuit to combine her background in architecture with ceramic design to create a multidisciplinary practice that explores the boundaries of craft in the digital age. Her studio practice is a playful inquiry of experiments that explores methods to intervene machine processes with human touch and error.

Nhan-Nhi Lillian Nguyen is a spatial designer from Honolulu, HI. She came to London in the pursui...

NNN is a human printer orchestrating the use of the following machinery: 3d ceramic printer, computer, handheld extruder, mixer, and human hand. 

Exploring the intersection between machine-made and hand-made; the relationship between digital and the analogue, NNN is interested in reconnecting design with human touch.

Final work

  • This is 3d printed ceramic pink stained parian porcelain
  • This is 3d printed ceramic pink stained parian porcelain
  • This is 3d printed ceramic pink stained parian porcelain

Serendipity — of Errors

Nguyen inserts herself into the printing script by weaving coiled clay into the vessels while they are printing.

Intervening in the ceramic 3d-printing process, creates opportunities for intentional disruption, structure change and beautiful accidents. Thus, no two prints are ever identical. NNN is a celebration of organic man-made error and the presence of humanity into the man-made machine the resulting works offer richly textured surfaces and unfamiliar volumes. 

  • These are 3d printed cobalt blue and pink stained parian porcelain
  • These are 3d printed cobalt blue stained parian porcelain that experiments with over-firing vitrification
  • These are 3d printed cobalt blue stained parian porcelain that experiments with over-firing vitrification
These are 3d printed white parian porcelain

Three White Porcelain Vessels

Research and process

  • My pieces are inspired by weaving techniques and the softness of fabric.
  • My test pieces
  • These are the machines that I use as design tools.

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NNN: Human Printer

NNN is a human printer orchestrating the use of the following machinery: 3d ceramic printer, computer, handheld extruder, mixer, and human hand. Exploring the intersection between machine-made and hand-ma...

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