# Layerd.Studio

> UK-based industrial design studio working with clients worldwide. We design products for 3D printing (additive manufacturing) and take them from idea to manufacture-ready files and production, with recycled and bio-based materials.

Layerd.Studio designs physical products around additive manufacturing from the start (Design for Additive Manufacturing, or DfAM): product and industrial design, prototyping, and taking products into batch production, with sustainability built in. We work with brands, startups, hospitality and retail buyers, and independent clients. Most design projects cost £1,000 to £5,000; small jobs are welcome, and so are people who aren't a business.

Contact: hello@layerd.studio · Book a call: https://layerd.studio/call · Send a brief: https://layerd.studio/message

## Pages

- [Layerd.Studio — Industrial Design for 3D Printed Products](https://layerd.studio/): UK industrial design studio working worldwide. We design products for 3D printing, from idea to manufacture ready files and production, in recycled materials.
- [Industrial Design and 3D Printing Services](https://layerd.studio/services): Six stages from first idea to production: concept development, design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), prototyping, manufacture ready files and production support.
- [Philosophy: Sustainable Design for 3D Printing](https://layerd.studio/philosophy): How Dhruv and Layerd.Studio think about sustainability, tactility, longevity and honesty in industrial design.
- [Thoughts on DfAM and Sustainable Design](https://layerd.studio/thoughts): Studio writing on design for additive manufacturing, sustainable materials and process, plus free tools such as Is 3D printing right for your product?
- [Contact](https://layerd.studio/contact): Start a project with Layerd.Studio, a UK industrial design and 3D printing studio working worldwide. Copy our email, book a call or send a brief.
- [Book a call](https://layerd.studio/call): Book a 20 minute intro call with Layerd.Studio about your product, idea or production run. No commitment, just a conversation.
- [Send a message](https://layerd.studio/message): Tell Layerd.Studio about your product or project in about two minutes, and we'll come back to you within two working days.

## Projects

- [Le Bon Ton: Musical Toys in Recycled PLA](https://layerd.studio/project/le-bon-ton): A musical toy set for children's workshops, designed for FDM 3D printing in recycled PLA. Snap fit with no glue, and reground PLA pellets inside make the sound.
- [Hotel Panel Inserts, 3D Printed in Recycled PLA](https://layerd.studio/project/hotel-inserts): Routed panel inserts for a major European hotel refurbishment, across hundreds of rooms. Vase mode FDM printing with forced seam placement, in bronze and white.
- [3D Printed Hotel Wall Hooks in Recycled PLA](https://layerd.studio/project/hotel-wall-hooks): Three wall hook profiles for a hotel refurbishment, FDM printed in recycled PLA with a ribbed bronze finish that matches the rooms' panel inserts.
- [Pin.Peep: Enamel Pin Display Holders in Recycled PLA](https://layerd.studio/project/pin-peep): A home for an enamel pin collection, printed as one part in recycled PLA. Two forms, three sizes, made to order. Free samples for shops and pin brands.
- [{access}ories: Adaptive Toothbrush Grips for Ordo](https://layerd.studio/project/ordo-grips): Taking Landor's adaptive toothbrush grips for Ordo into production: 270 shape, size, texture and colour combinations, each validated for FDM printing in recycled PLA.

## Writing and tools

- [Is 3D printing right for your product?](https://layerd.studio/thoughts/is-3d-printing-right-for-your-product): Six questions. Watch your answers print a part in front of you, defects and all. Including the answers that mean you should be making it another way.
- [Most 3D printed products are designed wrong](https://layerd.studio/thoughts/most-3d-printed-products-are-designed-wrong): The slicer will happily hide bad decisions for you. Here's why I stopped letting it, and what a bike light mount at university taught me about designing on purpose.

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- [Full text of every page](https://layerd.studio/llms-full.txt): the pages above as one Markdown file.