David Lister

David is currently the head designer and owner of the digital design and fabrication workshop CNC Cutting Inc. The workshop designs furniture and interiors as well as services the architecture, design, manufacturing and contractor industries in Toronto, Canada and abroad.

Architectural graduate, [Bachelor of Planning and Design and Masters of Architecture, University of Melbourne] designer, fabricator, educator, research assistant, specialist in computational design and digital fabrication.

Digital modes of design and its relationship to fabrication have been the major curiosity driving his work and thinking for the past 10 years. This interest led to the forming of the Elseware Collective in 2011 which, amongst other pursuits, conducted the design-make ExLab workshops introducing digital design concepts and technical skills to participants while more interestingly, exploring the possibilities of computation to existing and emerging fabrication processes. The workshops have evolved into an ongoing design studio run at the University of Melbourne. The learning content created by Elseware also went on to become the course content and literature for the Studio Air third year design studio at the University of Melbourne.

After working with Prof. Bharat Dave at the University of Melbourne on the Australian Research Council funded research project on digital fabrication in Australian architecture, focusing on how design practice and the construction industry has responded to the adoption of technologies, David moved to Canada and promptly set up the design, modelling and fabrication workshop. Over the last eight years CNC Cutting Inc have designed a number of interiors and furniture pieces as well as turned some of the most challenging interior, installation and furniture concepts by other designers into materialised form.

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2-29 Connell Court
Toronto, Canada
M8Z1E8

david@cnccutting.ca