Iconic products- the Owala FreeSip, Eames Lounger, iPhone- marry beautiful design with practicality and manufacturability. In this course, students will learn to use modern manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and manual machining to design and fabricate objects with utilitarian and artistic value. By applying principles of design in their creations, students will learn how their designs could scale from prototypes to mass-manufacturing. By working with and through these computer-controlled tools, students will explore how these modern methods fit culturally and economically along the spectrum between mass-manufacturing and traditional crafting. Do the artifacts you make in this course still count as hand-made?