Most of the night it was surrounded by students, friends and designers, drinking beer and playing pool.
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Craig was amazing and worked incredibly hard to build a full working model for the final year exhibition. It is not always about the most commercial idea, or about 'good taste' but following and idea to see where is goes. Being a final year project we encourage students to take on challenging projects and radical ideas and see if they can make them work. All credit to Craig, he took the idea and ran with it. At some point we thought, if it is glass why not make it clear. In the early stages of the project we were unsure how the number stacked up so we took a dive in and committed to the glass to see if it would work. We originally thought it would enable the table to be constructed for less than a traditional slate table. The use of glass was originally explored as a more cost effective way of creating large flat surfaces for pool tables. I was the professor who supervised the project when it was developed as a final year project a number of years ago. My purist professor would have lambasted this in crit however, what's your take on it? But changing the material to glass and Vitrik does not confer any functional advantage, just novelty. The X1 is pretty to look at and surely a status symbol as only five will be produced annually. The result? " discovered to his horror that this left the table 'scuffed, scratched, damaged-essentially destroyed,'" the man's lawyer told ABC News, in describing the man's subsequent $219,000 lawsuit against Nottage Design. The company has apparently not done a good job of making this clear: Five years ago a California man purchased the $73,000 G1, a predecessor to the X1 that's also made of glass and coated in Vitrik, and began shooting pool on it with regular billiards. Not mentioned in the product copy, but buried in the FAQ is the fact that "Only balls supplied by Elite Innovations can be used on the Vitrik surface," as they are coated in a corresponding finish that will not mar the surface of the table.
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