This week’s video comes from Lexus, which has commissioned a vehicle that won’t meet Euro NCAP standards and will probably fall apart in the rain.
London-based LaserCut Works and Scales and Models built the so-called Origami Car – a working replica of a Lexus IS – almost entirely from card.
Lexus’ Origami Car has a fully fitted interior, functioning doors, headlights, rolling wheels and an electric motor mounted on its steel and aluminium frame.
To build the one off commission, Lexus gave the team a digital 3D model of the IS, which was then divided into a series of parts including the main body, dashboard, seats and wheels.
These were then digitally rendered in 10mm slices to provide the two-dimensional profiles needed to laser cut each of the 1,700 sheets of 10mm-thick of cardboard.
Each layer was given its own reference number to help ensure it was assembled in the right sequence and the entire assembly was done by hand.
The vehicle will be revealed to the public at the Grand Designs Live Show at the NEC in Birmingham, from 8 October.
Superb …
Why?
This looks to me like an utter waste of time, money and resources. Plus, Origami mean paper folding, this is card and not folded.
This model of a car has nothing to do with origami.
It isn’t “Origami” inspired at all though, is it ?
It is card sculpting which has absolutely no basis in Origami (the art of paper FOLDING) . . .
Of course it is not Origami.
It is a bit of creative ‘fun’….no need to be so pompous in your criticism.
I suspect that the impact energy absorption characteristics will be off the scale.
It is a car advert.
Nice that it gave some artists some work and was indeed a clever designer exercise. Fun and lucrative for those involved otherwise quite pointless.
Lexus are doing a lot of this branding stuff, it is necessary to take them further from Toyota.
About 20 years ago, I cut out pizza boxes along topographic map lines to build a model of Lost Hill Island and Indian Point in Pomme de Terre Lake in Missouri, USA. My daughter then did the same thing with our home town, Half Way, Missouri, USA, and won a Reserve Champion award in the Ozark Empire Fair 4-H competition. If any lasers or computers were used, it was just in the copying machine. Her project was not as massive, but every bit similar, and done 20 years ago by a pre-teen.
“Alan Dominey | 8 Oct 2015 1:30 pm
It isn’t “Origami” inspired at all though, is it ?
It is card sculpting which has absolutely no basis in Origami (the art of paper FOLDING)”
Shows the poor state of journalism !
“Pushing the boundaries of design, technology and craftsmanship”
No, this is Pushing the boundaries of design, technology and craftsmanship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHS6_-ojsVQ
Also
“will be revealed to the public as at the Grand Designs Live Show” ???
Shows the poor proof reading or grammar. init !!
Lexus marketing team… get it right or get out of the way. The unwarranted desire to insert the word “origami” into the name completely distracts from the actual work that went into the project, and tries to sell it as something that it is not. It’s patronising to the people you’re trying to sell to, and your attempt at sensationalism has completely backfired, inviting mockery and derision rather than genuine interest or praise.