'Manual': A fully 3D-printed book that embeds its own G-code as raised lettering
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Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong have created 'Manual', a fully 3D-printed book where the pages, binding, and raised lettering are produced in a single continuous printing sequence. The book's raised marks are actually G-code — the machine instructions used by the 3D printer — translated into tactile lettering, making the object carry part of the code that fabricated it. The book requires no separate assembly, binding, or graphic layer, existing as a single-material object that emerges complete from the print bed.
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· 4 pulledDeveloped by Studio Darius Ou with Benson Chong, Manual is a fully 3D-printed book that carries part of the machine code used to fabricate its own body.
Its pages, binding, and raised marks are produced in one printing sequence, so the book comes off the print bed already formed.
There is no separate assembly stage, no later binding process, no applied graphic layer.
The marks belong to the same material logic as the pages themselves.
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