WE LOVE LASER!

LASERLEA Laser Cutting & Engraving Lab based at Hotspur House in Manchester City Centre We love all things laser and hope to share our experiments, inspiration and laser love x

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Laser engraving eggs today in the studio. We love how every day is different! #eggs #lasercut #laserengraved #welovelaser #Manchester

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My Augmented Reality CV!

Finally finished my video/interactive CV, having collaborated closely with Dee at Manchester Metropolitan University for the last year. 

My laser cut (by laserlea) design is a single sheet of paper that folds out with instructions of how to view videos of my work, interviews and also links straight to contact details.

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We have recently worked with the hugely talented @sallyannprovan Headpiece created from laser engraved acrylic. Her work is being shown at @natgalleriessco #laserengrave #laser #welovelaser

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Laser Engraved signs for @propermagazine Thank you for letting us help with the signage., #laserengraved #lasercut #propermag #welovelaser #Manchester #laserlea #wood #timber #signage #sign

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15,625 stars lasercut into birchwood by naked geometry

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Fantastic geometrical piece made from 15,625 stars #lasercut into birchwood by naked geometry

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Laser cutting doesn’t have to be 2D.

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Laser engraved business cards for a joinery company in Macclesfield, Cheshire.

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The New American: An Abstract Stop Motion Animation Laser Cut onto 800 Blocks of Wood by Nando Costa | Colossal

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From the Notice Board!

LaserLea Competition - Design a Laser Cut Christmas Decoration, and Win the opportunity to sell your work in the beautiful &made - Studio21 in Manchester Craft and Design Centre.

More info here

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Than you very much to Blyth & Co. for allowing us to put our poster in their fab art materials shop. 

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Having lots of students come through the doors at Laserlea with their projects at usually an early stage.  We very rarely get to see the finished product/piece.  So when we went around Manchester colleges and uni's graduate shows we went a little snap happy. 

Firstly, we have Amber Hulme from Graphic Design at Stockport College whose project was inspired by the constant comparison English folk make, that other cultures, languages and social circles change and destroy the English language.

Here is what she said about it 'I decided to shine a little light onto this subject in the theme of Loanwords. 

A Loanword or Borrowing is a word taken from a language and introduced and combined with another language, such as English. This is the basis to all languages but most commonly English, this is due to politics, wars and travel. 

The English language is in fact made up of so many different tongues that very few words are solely 'English'. Therefore my piece contradicted these comments of 'destroying English' with the actual truth that English isn't in fact very English to begin with, it's multicultural and internationally influenced.'

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On June 2nd 2013 at 9:45 am we began building our first “prototype park” on the Dobbins site.

On the back of £200 raised online and a few further donations on the day we:

Bought 62 sqm of turf

Laid our turf over 6 car parking spaces in the Eastern corner of the site

Paid for our car...

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We're totally in support of this great idea to bring back green spaces into the city.

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Poinant message laser cut from paper in lab this week about the Holocaust by Alicia Pfeffer. The smoke residue is part of the piece.

The one thing I can't believe is that people in her uni, had no idea what the Holocaust was!??

http://www.behance.net/aliciapfeffer.although

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We often get asked how small we can engrave text and we thought that an experiment would help put it in perspective.  Sorry about the poor image but it was taken with our Iphone for speed.  We will put a proper one together and update.

Text size is 1.07mm 

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Rollware: Edible Dishware by Joanne Choueiri, Giulia Cosenza and Povilas Raskevicius 

Rollware is a set of laser-cut rolling pins designed as a tool for the production of bread-based edible dishware, which are adorned with customised and useful patterns. The sustainable products merge traditional crafts, tableware production and cooking with digital technology.

Altered Appliances by Piet Zwart Institute Students

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/04/11/altered-appliances-kitchen-tableware-piet-zwart-institute-students/

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Laser cut panels inspired by Polish paper cuttings. Cut at http://laserlea.com/ today

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Photo etched job for a Maritime Solicitors.

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Typography laser engraved at Laserlea today