The Future Café

From clay through bronze and steel our creative power and design output has been dictated by means of manufacturing, means to shape available material into a designed object that serves a specific practical or social function. In the 3D printer era the consumer market faces a shift in the power balance, where the empowered end-user does not need to rely on big brands to interpret their needs through a mass-produced item. The de-centralization of design through facilitated fabrication will continue to feed the freedom of industrial design self-expression, and with it also change the future of custom motorcycle design. To embody the fabrication context of its design, the future café project will live in a set of 3D printed motorcycle fairings, designed to carry the classic elegance of vintage motorcycles into the new context of nearly limitless form exploration.