"IM Design" offers a wide spectrum of custom services such as custom sculpting, custom mold making and
copies of antique ceramic items. These services are based on many years of experience in ceramic art and in the ceramic industry. They oriented to help our customers achieve the desired end result.
We provide a wide range of custom designs for industrial production as well as unique, one-of-a-kind items
created for reproduction in a desired material such as - porcelain, ceramic or resin.
Original pieces can be hand-sculpted to your direction. But if you already have an original piece you would
like to put into production this step can be bypassed providing it is appropriate for a ceramic mold
Here we offer to copes any ceramic or porcelain antique item in technique of your choice, like "Italian Majolica", "Holland
Cobalt Painting" or "German Over-glaze Painting.
Igor Mintchenko continue the best traditions of European porcelain sculpting and painting.
Working few years for one of the oldest European porcelain factories as an artist he learn allot of secrets of this grate and intricate material and now he is well known for quality of his work.
The three steps of Sculpture, Mold
making and Making a rubber block prepares your product for the mold duplication process.
The mold making is a second step in the process of bringing an original work to production. It does include taking the original work
and producing the first original mold. This mold is one of a kind and normally cost is figured in terms of a mold making time. The more complex the mold, the more costly the process.
TERMS
Terms for first time customers are payment in advance for the sculpture, mold making
and rubber block making process.
This process includes taking the initial mold through the process of making a rubber master-block so the initial
mold can be duplicated for finished product production. In order to reduce a weight of your mold rubber-block can be done with inserts. Cost is determined by rubber weight used plus the mold-makers time.
To walk through a sample cost of a project, please contact IM DESIGN at (859)236-3169
