Fashionable Innovation

For Pearl Octopussy, we wanted to develop a set of earrings that could be produced locally in Norway. Katrine, the founder of the jewelry brand, works intuitively and with a strong sense of form, but without experience in digital modeling. She therefore sculpted the earrings in clay as the starting point.

We 3D-scanned the models, processed them so they could be printed, and then produced them in a lightweight material. The advantage of this method is that we could create large earrings without making them too heavy. The goal was under fifteen grams, and we were able to produce earrings around eight centimeters in size while still staying within that limit.

For another set, we developed a custom toolpath generator. It controlled the printer in a pattern that laid down the material in a partially randomized structure. The result was organic spiral forms that gave Pearl Octopussy a unique series of earrings.