Lisa Marks and Ian Harmon
Lisa is an international keynote speaker and Industrial Design
researcher specializing in combining craft and algorithmic design. She
uses technological adaptations of traditional techniques to promote
sustainable methods of production that help endangered craft
communities. Her work has been shown at design weeks in New York,
Milan, Bangkok, and India, and has also won the 2019 International
Grand Prix Lexus Design Award. Lisa is an Assistant Professor and
Director of The Algorithmic Craft Lab at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. Lisa collaborates with Ian Harmon, her research assistant.
Ian is an Industrial Design student at the Georgia Institute of
Technology with an interest in nature and bioinformatics.
Inspired by the Goodyera pubescens, more commonly known as the
Rattlesnake Orchid, these plates depict artistic variations of the
variegation patterns found within its leaves. Using Grasshopper,
we produced these patterns through a jittered variation of a
Voronoi structure that has been geometricized into different
polygons and concentrations. We hope to continue with this piece
to create freestanding embroidered lace that represents various
flora native to Georgia in the near future.