Melting CDs

Ethical Making

Experiment

Other

Reinvention

Sustainable

By melting CDs over a form, you can form the plastic into a new shape. You get a new texture because the reaction between plastic and aluminium creates bubbles.

Material

Metal
Plastics and resins

Craft

Other

General Technique

Forming and shaping
Surface modifying

Specific Technique

Melting a CD over a form with a heat gun

Properties & Qualities

Application

Art, Product, Sculpture

Qualities

3D, Shiny, Textured / tactile, Transparent

Colour

Green, Grey, Metallic, Red, Yellow

Sample Information

Date of creation

10/31/2022

Credits

Craft Maker

Hilde Eik

Photographer

Hilde Eik

Practitioner

OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University

OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNew knowledge – new practice

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