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Mike Perina

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Warner Bros. DiscoveryUniversal PicturesParamountSony MusicAtlantic RecordsRed BullIBMABBARRISyscoSorelCitizenPat McGrath LabsBattleBotsDiscovery ChannelHOKLocal MotorsVicarious SurgicalTomorrow LabMakerspace NYCSnug HarborYoungwoo & AssociatespropNspoonVertical GrouponeZeroGilchrist & SoamesAmerica's Big DealClassic AuthenticsFiberFoxForce MajeureCos PhonesBed ScrunchieUnited Activities UnlimitedVISIONSHistoric Richmond TownProjectivity GroupTiltGDC
14
Years turning digital intent into physical and operational reality
209
Projects catalogued across objects, systems, activations & products
41
Media appearances, national & local
NYC
Based in New York. Available worldwide.
01 Selected Case Studies

Things Made Real

Six builds. Six rooms
someone trusted me in.

Times Square — Tenure · USA Network
PhysicalTenure · USA Network2021

Times Square

USA Network needed Main Street USA to exist physically in Times Square for the launch of America's Big Deal. The activation had to read as a real town at miniature scale, survive a public plaza, and go up inside a production load-in window.

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— open project detail
The finished 3D-printed prosthetic arm
000%Wire

Prosthetic Arms

I started printing prosthetic arms and giving them away. No charge and no medical camouflage—if a kid wanted an upgrade, we designed an upgrade.

Open the build →
Gotham City — Warner Bros Television
PhysicalWarner Bros Television2018

Gotham City

Warner Bros Television needed a scaled Gotham City for the final season of the series. Towers, spires, and skyline pieces were modeled, printed, post-processed, and assembled under a production calendar that did not move.

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— open project detail
Mile Long Runway — Tenure · Sorel
PhysicalTenure · Sorel2019

Mile Long Runway

For NYC Fashion Week, Sorel staged the world's longest fashion show runway along the High Line. The set needed a miniature white city the models moved through—architecture at prop scale, produced fast, finished clean.

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— open project detail
One Sleepless Night — Community response
PhysicalCommunity response2020

One Sleepless Night

When New York hospitals ran out of face shields, I turned the shop over to producing them.

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— open project detail
Pat McGrath Labs — Vertical Group · Pat McGrath Labs
PhysicalVertical Group · Pat McGrath Labs2019

Pat McGrath Labs

Custom product containers and influencer kits engineered so the open was part of the product.

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— open project detail
02 Selected Evidence

More Things Made Real

No case-study theater—
just proof.

Retro Boombox — Original design
Physical

Retro Boombox

2019 · Original design

Every grille, slider, and panel modeled from scratch.
— open project detail
Desert Pearl — Emma Stern
Physical

Desert Pearl

2022 · Emma Stern

A gallery-scale mermaid, fabricated for the artist—and covered in Vogue.
— open project detail
Harlem 1:50 — Architectural model
Physical

Harlem 1:50

2018 · Architectural model

A city block held together by cumulative precision.
— open project detail
Pokémon Go Scavenger Hunt — Public event
Physical

Pokémon Go Scavenger Hunt

2016 · Public event

Five hundred printed figures hidden across Staten Island.
— open project detail
Red Bull Culture Clash — Red Bull
Physical

Red Bull Culture Clash

2018 · Red Bull

Laser-cut and printed components built for the stage.
— open project detail
03 Current Systems

Building Now

Software is the shop's
next material.

Loombuild orchestration OSActive
Titan Capital Managerclient financial infrastructureShipped · in daily use
PrintMatrixprint-farm operating systemIn development
The print farm in production55 machines
PrintMatrix production operating system interfaceone system
HybridPrintMatrix · 2014–2026
With: Jonathan Y — 55 printers, 1,000-unit runs

From 55 Printers to One Operating System

— open project detail
Titan Capital Manager — Titan Holdings Partners
DigitalTitan Holdings Partners2026

Titan Capital Manager

Titan Capital Manager replaced spreadsheet drift with a multi-tenant operational system for investors, agreements, payment state, approvals, and exports.

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— open project detail
Loom — Creative-work operating system
DigitalCreative-work operating system2026

Loom

Loom is the operating system I wanted every long build to have: intent, tasks, decisions, artifacts, proof, and release history held together as one inspectable record.

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— open project detail
04 Off the clock

Reprogramming Reality

A book of paradoxes.
Made solo.

With: no one — wrote, designed & illustrated solo

Every chapter is built on a paradox—two ideas that can't both be true, held until they turn into something you can use.

Same trick as this site: two channels disagreeing until they make depth.

Read on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
Chapter 8 — The Luck Paradox: why success is just a system
Reprogramming Reality book cover, with red and blue 3D glasses
Chapter 4 — The Paradox of Reality: from 3D to 2D to one profound truth
05 Chronology

Fourteen Years
of Making

The medium changes.
The discipline doesn't.

2012DIY printer kits. $100K in year one.
2015Assembyl 3D opens. First production runs.
2018Arms hit national news. Gotham gets built.
2020The shop becomes a PPE line.
2021Main Street goes up in Times Square.
2022–2455-printer farm. 1,000-unit runs.
NowThe system becomes software—and whatever you bring next.
06 Selected Coverage

What They Said

41 appearances across national
and local press since 2014.

A father is using his 3-D printer to create face shields to protect people against COVID-19.

HuffPost · 2020

Wow!! Impressive and more impressive!

Lori · VISIONS — on the press sheet · 2026
07 About

I've been building with 3D printers since 2012—back when you had to build the printer first. That work grew from objects into systems: prosthetic arms, Gotham City, a Times Square installation, manufacturing software, client portals, and the operating infrastructure behind them.

I work where design has to become operational—an object surviving a public plaza, or software surviving real users. Understand the constraint, build the thing end to end, leave evidence that it works.

Let's build
something.

Physical builds, digital infrastructure, and the hybrid problems that need both.