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Excited to have SLIC3D, my first 3D printed book acquired by Singapore Art Museum @singaporeartmuseum into the permanent Design Collection. — SLIC3D Dating: 2021-22 Dimensions: 20.5 x 15.5 x 1.0 cm Medium/material: 3D printed Thermoplastic polyurethane (pages), polylactic acid (spine) Edition: Unique Photography: @ve.you.vu Photogrammetry: @jonathantyl #graphicdesign #3dprintedbooks #3dprintedbook

CORPOREAL will accompany CORPUS's acquisition by Singapore Art Museum @singaporeartmuseum into the permanent Design Collection. --- CORPOREAL Dating: 2024 Dimension: 4 minutes 12 seconds Medium / Materials: Single channel 4K video Edition: 1 (1+AP) Special thanks to @gideon_kong Photography by @j__neo and Chan Jian Hong #graphicdesign #3dprintedbooks #3dprintedbook

Happy to announce that CORPUS, my second 3D printed book has been acquired by Singapore Art Museum @singaporeartmuseum and will enter the permanent Design Collection. --- CORPUS Dating: 2022-23 Dimension: 17.0 x 10.5 x 2.5 cm Medium / Materials: 3D printed/Thermoplastic polyurethane Edition: Unique Gaussian splatting/Photogrammetry with @jonathantyl #graphicdesign #3dprintedbooks #3dprinting

Manual is a fully 3D-printed book bearing raised marks of the very G-code (partial) used to fabricate itself, embedding within the object the instructions for its own replication. Designed to be printed in a single sequence using an @hyper.press experimental method that bypasses post-production, the book materialises directly on the print bed in fully bound form. Manual was launched in Toronto at SESSION organised by @final.research at @newsystems_ , where the book was sent digitally and 3D printed on site. Research & development w/ @mushroomhunting . Special thanks @devanshcshah . 📸: @jonathantyl — In 2008, a printer developed by the RepRap project successfully 3D printed 48% of its own (100% of printable) components, marking one of the first demonstrations of machine self-replication. Its long-term ambition is a 100% self-replicating machine capable of printing complete copies of itself. Founded in 2005 by Adrian Bowyer alongside collaborators including Michael S. Hart, RepRap inherited an ethos already central to Hart’s earlier work on Project Gutenberg: the decentralised circulation of reproducible books. Hart is widely regarded as the inventor of the e-book, having produced some of the first digital books. The relationship between self-replicating machines and books is not merely coincidental. Both function as technologies for the replication and dissemination of human knowledge and endeavours. Manual traces this shared trajectory between self-replicating systems and digital publishing by proposing the electronically transmissible and printable book object. Unlike the e-book, where only textual content is transmissible, this Replicable Book (r-book) enables the replication of both content and physical form. While the r-book can assume the form of any type of book, Manual consists solely of machine-readable code, positioning itself primarily as a book for machines rather than human readers. The first version of Manual contains only 2.5% of its own G-code. Current FFF print resolutions and text scales produce a recursive code-to-volume ratio in which the self-descriptive G-code cannot yet fully account for the pathing data of the structure and its marks.

building an archive, an inventory, a numbered list, a taxonomy, a glossary, a lexicon, a lore, a vector, a hypothesis, a research, and a practice for 3D printed books. hyperpre.ss (link in bio) beta site Initiated in 2021, hyperpress is a programme of research spanning 3D printing, graphic design, and publishing—producing 3D printed books, objects, and texts. The research traces the ontology of print by situating additive manufacturing within the lineage of the printing press, where 3D printed books materialise a counterfactual trajectory. #3dprintedbooks #graphicdesign

FINAL RESEARCH presents SESSION, an initiative with the goal of creating a space for global design discourse through live lecture, platforming people and practices that critically engage with design and research. SESSION is hosted at New Stadium @newsystems_ in Toronto with our guest speakers joining us virtually.

[INFORMATION] Our first guest is Darius Ou @darius_ou , a Singapore-based graphic designer whose practice focuses on typography, motion design and graphic lore. He runs hyperpress @hyper.press , a research initiative and body of work exploring the intersections of 3D printing, graphic design and publishing—producing 3D printed books, objects and texts. He is a recipient of the ADC New York Young Guns 21 award, and the Tokyo Type Directors Club Annual Award 2026. [DATE] Wed 04.29.2026 [LOGISTICS] Darius will be giving a 75 minute talk followed by an extended Q&A period with time for social after. Doors open at 7PM with talks beginning at 7:45. Guests are welcome to bring beverages. Snacks and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided. [RSVP] Seats are limited. Follow the link in bio to RSVP and guarantee entry. This event is PWYC, a $5 donation is suggested to cover costs and labour. FR_12_P TALK LUMA.COM/DARIUSOU #DARIUSOU #FINALRESEARCH #NEW

A slice of METALLY is now exhibiting at the @ginzagraphicgallery (ggg) as a Selected Work for @tokyotdc Tokyo Type Director's Club Awards 2026. This exhibited slice is a reworked prototype page from the development process and represents METALLY (2025) at the space. Also shown in this post are additional images of the inner workings and circuitry of the book from development. This 3D printed book took approximately 6 months of conceptualisation, hardware and software tests, and production of the proof-of-concept object. More at @hyper.press — Check out all 124 winning works at the TDC Tokyo Exhibition Dates: April 03, 2026 – May 16, 2026 Closed on Sundays and holidays (April 29, May 4-6) Venue: Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) Hours: 11:00-19:00 Address: DNP Ginza Bldg. 1F/B1F, 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo #3dprintedbooks

METALLY (2025) has been selected for the Tokyo Type Directors Club Annual Award 2026 @tokyotdc as Excellent Work for the Experimental Work Category. This marks an important milestone for the development of 3D printed books and re-emphasises their lineage in the printing press and tradition of graphic design. Beyond destabilising the ontology of print, 3D printed books interrogate the production processes and workflows of book-objects by retracing historical practices while speculating on their future. METALLY is a culmination of various experimental processes developed over years from previous titles (and from countless failures), such as flexible 3D printed substrates, purpose-built typeface and methodology for 3D printing (termed path-trapping), Multi-material mechanical interlocking for printing images (termed clotting) and other methods documented at @hyper.press . Special thanks to @feelers_feelers @joandkapi for the support, @hiddnur , @sojamo , @msjospark , Dr Aprille, for the invaluable guidance. Photography @jonathantyl Talent @suvalidh #3dprintedbooks #graphicdesign

Prototype book-objects These book-objects are 3D printed upright, from spine to fore-edge. Every piece is littered with randomly generated artefacts produced by the printer's pathing system, exploring accidental mark-making through the machines's vibration, belt patten ringing, and pathing mechanics. Through randomised start and end points per layer, each book-object is printed with a unique path. These artefacts are often perceived as printing flaws—here they are part of @hyper.press machine's unique signature through specific software settings and hardware intricacies. The logomark on the cover is made using a "x-for-z" method, where relief marks are printed through movements on the x-axis rather than z-axis—a maneuver only possible through 3D printing the book-object upright instead of cover-flat on surface. These exercises serves as a proof-of-concept for a process for 3D printing a book all at once. Each piece is produced from the same filament spool that was used to produce previous @hyper.press titles. Available @labour_block . While spool lasts. Limited drop @labour_block

LABOUR BLOCK Mini Docs Chapter 2: @hyper.press @darius_ou hyperpress is a research initiative and body of work exploring the intersections of 3D printing, graphic design and publishing—producing 3D printed books, objects and texts. Edit: JX Soo (@jadeexcess ) Shot by: JX Soo + Justin Tan (@just.a.tin ) -- OPEN STUDIO EVENT & MARKETPLACE 24—25 JAN, 1PM—8PM *SCAPE GROUND THEATRE (@scapesg ) MORE INFO >>> LINK IN BIO

DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENTS 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺-𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 feature a double-slit joint system across its constellation of spines. Conceived by polymath Thomas Young, the double-slit experiments from 1801 have since been explored in many branches in physics, including quantum mechanics. Initially designed to demonstrate the dual wave–particle behaviour of light and matter, the experiment later gave rise to profound scientific and philosophical questions concerning measurement, observation, and consciousness itself. The primary consequences of the findings from these experiments stem from how classical particles can exhibit behaviours of waves only under unobserved circumstances, either mechanically or by human interactions. 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺-𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴’s binding mechanism draws simultaneously on the technical logic of the double-slit apparatus and on the conceptual perplexities it exposes—the dualities that emerge from interactions. Each spread of 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺-𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 is 3D-printed with a pair of slits at the centrefold and extended tabs along the fore edges. These tabs are designed to be threaded through the centrefold slits of adjacent spreads and heat-bound together, forming a continuous, branching system of spreads. Book prose by @daisyfay #3dprintedbooks #graphicdesign

𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺-𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 2025 1500mm x 1000mm (without spool) Medium: 3D printed book, Thermoplastic polyurethane Commissioned by ArtScience Museum Singapore Book prose by Samantha Yap @daisyfay #3dprintedbook #graphicdesign