Our facilities allow you to bring your designs to life using the latest technologies and equipment. At the Academy, you will find yourself sketching in 3D, modeling with high-end tools and 3D printers, and restoring one-of-a-kind vintage cars, all without ever leaving the Industrial Design building.
The 3D printing lab is a great place for students to experiment with physical form to prototype cutting-edge wearables and other alternative physical interfaces. Both small-scale and oversize 3D printing is available for presentation, mock-up, and display. Students can provide files for visualizing ideas both flat and form-based.
The metal shop expands students opportunities to realize their projects and explore the potentials of different material expression and technique. Students can learn a variety of metal fabrication processes. Craft precision metal parts in our full featured metal shop. Machine lathes, milling machines, disc grinders, rollers,and formers are all at your disposal.
This VR Room is used by students to analyze their projects (Digital 3D Models) in immersive environments throughout the creative process:
• set up the package and proportions of their designs
• develop and evaluate multiple design directions in one environment
• evaluate different colors, materials, and finishes of their final design
• show the final design in context
With a custom-built negative pressure spray booth large enough to hold a full-sized automobile, discover one of the best-equipped painting facilities in the county.
Fabricate objects and jigs in both natural and artificial wood in our wood shop. Work with band saws, drill presses, jointer, planer, miter saws, panel saw, wood shapers, and table routers. Two wood lathes and two isolated sanding rooms with spindle and disc sanders and one more lathe for working foam plastics give you the control to polish your designs. The wood shop also features four SawStop table saws as part of our ongoing commitment to safety.
Our in-house lab technicians will be able to assist you with the high-resolution printing of your large-format presentation boards using these cutting-edge printers.
You will use the latest software packages on regularly updated Dell computer workstations connected to Wacom Cintiq interactive pen displays.
The San Francisco Auto Museum presents a tantalizing glimpse into the history of the art and design of automobiles. Displaying cars from this expansive collection, the museum preserves an integral piece of international automotive culture.
