// the process · from sketch to shipped

How it's made.

every Q.M.M. piece starts as a sketch and leaves as a signed, numbered edition. one artist, one room in Chicago. here's the whole thing, start to finish.

// 01 · sketch

Sketch.

sketches on whatever's nearest. reference walls. cut-and-paste collage to find the form. if a piece doesn't earn a reaction here, it doesn't make it past here.

// 02 · model + print

Purple 3D print fresh off the printer in the Q.M.M. print bay

Model + print.

the digital step — modeling the piece, then the print bay takes over. PLA laid down layer by layer: objects, product runs, and filament paintings straight off the bed.

// 03 · paint + finish

Smoke, a mixed media painting by Q.M.M., worked by hand

Paint + finish.

print bay, paint wall, finishing station. sand, seal, paint by hand. mistakes get kept if they're better than the plan.

// 04 · sign + ship

Finished Grippy in its packaging, signed and numbered

Sign + ship.

sign, number, document — editioned in the same week. boxed by hand and out the door from Chicago.

// in the wild · northalsted market days · aug 2026

The studio, out in public.

our first Market Days booth — the tent up, the printed letters riding the front, and the filament paintings out in the sun where they belong.

Booth row on Halsted during Market Days, Chicago — booth row, day one

Visitors at the Q.M.M. booth, Northalsted Market Days — new friends, new walls

Green filament painting hung at the Q.M.M. Market Days booth — filament painting, hung

Q.M.M. booth at Northalsted Market Days at night, Chicago — last light on Halsted

// what comes out the other end

First Kiss, a 3D printed piece by Q.M.M.

Feeling Free, a mixed media painting by Q.M.M.

Pink chrome finish study, a 3D printed object by Q.M.M.

Want the full walkthrough?

studio visits by appointment in Chicago. commissions, collabs, and questions about the process all welcome.

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