In today's Fortnight podcast, young furniture designer Timothy Aaron Huston talks with  Ian Campbell about the challenges and quirks of designing digitally. "The technology is a little limiting if you're trying to make something whimsical, and something warm," he says.

During his training, Timothy had to quickly translate his background in two-dimensional graphic design concepts to industrial design in the 3-D realm. Timothy describes learning the best way to render, so that a lab or a shop can seamlessly translate his directions into practical built objects. Describing his past collaborators—Danish manufacturers and Pennsylvania Dutch craftsmen—Timothy remarks, "They're the ones in cold, hard reality, and we're the ones in the design-creative fun lab."

Timothy explains how he initiates designs and handles their challengs, "It has to meet Newton's laws of physics, and you have to build it out of steel, wood or glass," he says of designing a new piece, while avoiding the "uncanny valley" feeling of artifice that pummels the "magical."

All of this leads Timothy to postulate on a different area. The mediation of creation and life in the virtual arena makes his mind wander. Perhaps we are the generation to make the leap, he says, "being native in both realms."

Timothy Aaron Huston: Designing in 3D

Katherine Robinson read her poem the Swimmer for Fortnight Journal. 

Original music is by Christopher North, the track is entitled, "Slow Still". www.christophernorth.com. 

Katerine Robinson: The Swimmer

Katherine Robinson: Mallory On Everest

Ben Watsky: The Flying Business 2

Katherine Robinson: Williamson Poems

Katherine Robinson: Bone House

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