model making
After moving into their new shop at 7235 Saint Louis Ave in Skokie IL, new to this kind of design collaboration, John presented his four foot high stack of notebooks to Alex ready to start prototyping. Alex thought it better to take John’s designs and start a rigorous model making period, a process completely new to John, but familiar to him, now a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Some of their first investments were in art supplies like matt board, balsa wood, crazy glue, Exacto knives, and a mini-scroll saw...
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