Erik Tietz

Long Island City-based fabricator and co-founder of Tietz-Baccon, a digital fabrication studio he established with Andrew Baccon in 2007. The firm provides CNC milling and routing, laser cutting, and waterjet cutting for architecture, art, and design clients, translating conceptual designs into buildable production across services that include furniture design, gallery and exhibit design, scale models, and design research. Tietz and Baccon developed Machinemade, an online platform that lets designers upload digital files to get feasibility and cost estimates for fabrication, built in collaboration with RockPaperRobot and Shady Hill Studios. The studio was profiled in Metropolis magazine's Makers issue in December 2012.