ceramic bird feeder a clay 3d printing, grasshopper exersice academic work softwares: rhino grasshopper The approach to this project was inspired by the book ‘The way of Craftsmanship’, to think like a craftsman and not like an artist. By having only two ideas, to create a vessel that served the purpose of being a bird feeder and to create an outer and inner shell that would enable the birds to perch more easily on the bowl. This project provided an ideal opportunity to explore the possibilities of grasshopper and the wasp. The iterations of design lead to an octagon as the inner shell and a circle as the outer shell. Both forms are connected by the endpoints of the octagon.