Cookie packaging by Baking and Pastry Arts program and Faculty of Media & Creative Arts students
Baking and Pastry Arts program creates custom molds using emerging technology
In a recent initiative that is characteristic of the Baking and Pastry Arts program’s interdisciplinary approach, Chef Kenneth Ku and his students collaborated with David Neumann, professor in the Faculty of Media & Creative Arts (FMCA), to create custom molds using 3D printing technology. The delicious results of the project are easily visible in the bake labs, but the inspiration for the collaboration was ignited at a place far from campus: Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
David proposed the idea to Chef Kenneth, who readily agreed to collaborate with him on the project. To make the molds, the project team brought together a diverse group of students. Meagan Martinez of the Baking and Pastry Arts program worked as a confectionery/baking artist; Tiam Bennett Morrow-Rogers, a student employee at the Barrett Center for Technology and Innovation, worked as an industrial designer, while Paul Moon and Heesu Woo, students in the Faculty of Media and Creative Arts (FMCA) worked as a 3D artist and a 2D designer, respectively.
