4. Michael Reese Trust
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Michael Reese Trust reached out to Happy Returns Studio for help producing an award to recognize leaders in the Health Care Sector. Michael Reese Trust contracted Happy Returns to make a 3D scan of a larger than life size bronze statue of their founder Michael Reese. Cody and Tom traveled to the statue storage location and made a photogrammetry 3D scan of the statue.
Happy Returns Studio proposed a number of different treatments to the form and Michael Reese Trust selected a triangulated mesh surface for the statue that accurately conformed to the features whilst abstracting the form to create a new work of art.
Happy Returns Studio offered Michael Reese Trust a range of possible material outcomes to choose from including 3D printed steel, recycled plastic and cast glass which was eventually selected. Happy Returns Studio worked with a local Chicago foundry to have a 3D printed pattern cast in glass.