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Two-way text desk sign, 3D printed in colour

A desk sign for a private client: eight 3D printed pieces that read a name from one side and 50&FAB from the other, standing on a black base.

Client
A private client
What it is
A desk sign that reads differently from each side
What we did
3D design over three revisions, then the print
What the client got
The finished sign, eight colour pieces on a black base
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Pieces, each read as two different characters
8
Design revisions
3
Long base in the final design, 15 mm thick
251.9 mm

What we brought

  1. What we can do

    Two messages in one sign

    Each of the eight pieces is shaped to read as one character from one side and another from the other, so one sign carries a name and 50&FAB.

  2. How we look after you

    One colour per piece

    Each piece is a single colour, so both readings come out in the same blue, red, yellow and green.

  3. What you get

    Checked from both sides first

    Three revisions of renders, from the left, from the right and turning, let the client check both readings and the size before we printed.

The build

How we built it

5 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 5

Reads
A name on one side, 50&FAB on the other
Our scope
3D design over three revisions, then the print

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we designed and 3D printed a two-way desk sign for a private client. Seen from one side it reads a name. From the other it reads 50&FAB, between two diamonds.

Three revisions

Step 2 of 5

Each character is shaped so that it reads as one letter from one side and as another from the other side. We took the sign through three revisions, each shown from the left, from the right and turning.

  1. Revision 0

    The first model, rendered in grey: 50&FAB between two diamonds from one side, the name from the other.

    Render

  2. Revision 1

    The pieces in blue, red, yellow and green on a black base 165.57 by 38.36 mm and 5 mm thick, with letters 14.6 mm tall.

    Render

  3. Revision 2

    Updated measurements: a longer base, 251.9 mm long and 15 mm thick.

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The print

Step 3 of 5

We 3D printed the sign as separate parts: each of the eight characters in its own colour, blue, red, yellow or green, and the base in black.

Putting it together

Step 4 of 5

The eight pieces stand in a row on the black base, in the order that spells both readings.

The final build

Step 5 of 5

The client received the finished sign. From one side it reads 50&FAB, and from the other the name, in the same four colours.

In the hand, for size.

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