Wiggles Big Red Car
Over the years we’ve been involved in a number of displays for the Powerhouse Museum but probably none as shiny as these miniature Big Red Cars in commemoration of 20 years of The Wiggles. The exhibition, running from Sept 2011 until 2012 consists of a huge variety of installations and activities for children and adults. [...]
2011 Super Rugby Trophy
To commemorate the inaugural Super Rugby championship, SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby) were after an iconic trophy designed to impress. The entire project consisted of 15 conference tropies and a number of replicas, but the highlight was of course, the single championship trophy coming in at a massive 18kg. In concept, it [...]
Tyco F638 Slurry Valves
Tyco Flow Control Pacific are one of the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of valves, actuators and controls. Our most recent work with them has been the production of 1:1 scale models that they use for instructional purposes during exhibitions, trade shows and as a mobile sales tool. Considering the investments that are commonplace in [...]
Zoe
Each year Corporate Culture host the Design Journey Competition, helping independent designers explore and prototype their ideas. In 2008 Lenard Design Associates came up with the winning entry for the year’s theme “room within a room”. The result was Zoe. This was one of 2 designs that Box and Dice produced for Corporate Culture that [...]
Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch
Box and Dice was part of an award winning team that successfully designed and pitched the official Sydney 2000 Olympic Games torch and cauldron. It won a Gold Design Award in the 2000 Australian International Design Awards. The prototype torch had its central core CNC machined from Aluminium. the outer shells were then vacuum formed [...]
3D Computer Modelling
We are proud to offer Computer Aided Design (CAD) services utilising the latest in parametric 3D modeling software. We work off anything from a napkin sketch to a well gesticulated description with facial expressions to create a 3D CAD representation of what it is you would like to build. This 3D CAD model will be [...]
CNC Machining
Our main in-house service is CNC machining. This includes CNC milling, CNC routing and CNC lathing. CNC milling is good for medium sized objects where a 3D file can be supplied (otherwise you may need our 3D CAD modelling service). CNC routing is best suited to large scale projects and our machine can handle profiles [...]
Silicone & Plastic Moulding
One of our main services is silicone moulding and cold casting or vacuum casting. We work with 2 main types of materials – silicone and polyurethane. Both of these come in a range of hardnesses and can be pigmented with a select pallette of colours. We use rigid moulds when pouring silicone parts and silicone [...]
Rapid Protoyping
Rapid prototyping of the SLA or SLS variety takes your 3D data and, using laser technology, builds up the object layer by layer until the final piece is complete. The beauty of this process is in its disregard for conventional inconveniences such as undercuts or hollow forms. Continual advances in rapid prototyping technology are resulting [...]