NICETRAILS is a design-centric artist-run sme that prototypes with emerging technologies like digital fabrication, augmented reality and AI to create solutions and digital businesses. It has been involved in EU R&D projects, including Light Touch Matters (H2020), where it developed touch-sensitive luminous plastics for well-being, and AMABLE (H2020), contributing to the digitalization of manufacturing through a generative design tool for digital fabrication. Their projects blend technology with user-centered solutions.
NICETRAILS is a collaborative firm that assembles expert professionals and service providers to form the ideal team for each project. Leveraging an expanding network of tech centers and production hubs, we ensure efficient digital fabrication and delivery. NICETRAILS combines creative talent with technical capabilities to drive innovative solutions.
Funded: 2016 in Barcelona, Spain
3D - AR - AI
BITZ : biodiversity in transition zones → nicetrails.com/bitz
LENSCAPES : portals to estuary futures → nicetrails.com/lenscapes
Use the existing physical material environment (sculptures, nature, world details) as content and starting point for designing contemporary forms and solutions.
skills / tech: photogrammetry / NeRF / 3D modelling
Generate custom visuals according to specified values and properties: ie. floral / geometric / styles
potential uses: patterns / decoration / textures /packaging / 3D shapes / CNC / engravings / moodboards
skills / tech: GAN / Diffusion / text-to-image / Depth estimation / segmentation / classification
