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Happy Returns Studio


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Projects
  1. Redemptive Plastics
  2. Adopt an Ott
  3. Counterpoise [Fish out of Water]

Client Work
  1. Jenny Kendler - Close to You
  2. Jenny Kendler - Governors Island
  3. Marz Community Brewing
  4. Michael Reese Trust
  5. Norman Teague Design Studios

Capabilities
  1. Robotics
  2. Recycled Plastics
  3. Machine Integration
  4. Material Research & Application
  5. Analogue to Digital
  6. Digital to Analogue
  7. Large Format 3D Printing
  8. Mold Making



Happy Returns Studio —
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  1. Happy Returns Studio is led by Cody Norman and Tom Burtonwood, artists and designers based in the Chicago area. Between the two of them they have over 40 years of combined experience solving creative problems and producing high touch outcomes for commissioned public art projects, commercial work and their own studio practices.
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2. Jenny Kendler - Governors Island




Photo courtesy of Jenny Kendler

In the spring of 2022 Chicago based Artist and Activist Jenny Kendler reached out to Happy Returns Studio for our help on a new public art commission they were working on for Governors Island in New York City.



For this project Kendler is attempting to encourage Oysters to adopt tiny 3D prints of classical sculpture from antiquity and to coat them in nacre, the pearlescent surface that Oysters build their shells from. Happy Returns Studio consulted on the project and produced small prototype prints from which Kendler was able to test the viability of the project.


Happy Returns Studio did a careful mesh analysis of all the proposed scans which Kendler then used to print using a third party SLS machine in medical grade nylon. Happy Returns also provided animated and static digital simulations of the proposed nacre surface treatment.


http://jennykendler.com
Mark



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