Mahdi Naïm Studio , an industrial design practice led by designer Mahdi Naïm, has unveiled AERIS, a bicycle saddle in active development built around a single design hypothesis: additive manufacturing and traditional craft produce a coherent object only when both are conceived together from the first design decisions, rather than combined at the end of the process. The saddle combines a 3D printed lattice structure made through high-precision photopolymerization using SLA/DLP technology and high-performance elastomer resin with full-grain vegetable-tanned leather hand-stitched in France. The saddle is moving toward small-series production and is open to industrial partnerships, press coverage, and real-condition testing partnerships.

AERIS is built on a lattice geometry developed through the strict application of Design for Additive Manufacturing principles and biomimetic structural optimization. That geometry is presented not as decoration, but as the direct structural basis of the saddle.…