Design challenges
i.materialise Jewelry Design Challenge
2 May 2011 - 1 June 2011
The i.materialise Jewelry Design Challenge
This challenge has ended. We are currently 3D printing selected entries and testing them to determine the winners of the challenge.
Today we have an exciting Design Challenge for jewelry designers. We’re reaching out to you in order to find jewelry design talent. We’re looking for new concepts, techniques and ideas in jewelry design.
We want this challenge to help us discover you so that we can then encourage and promote you and your work.
3D printed jewelry is very new and affords designers with an immense freedom to design. But, very few pieces have really managed to elevate 3D printing pieces to the level of high end jewelry. Can you do this?
Can you design a jewelry piece that elevates 3D printed jewelry? Can you make something that is beautiful, practical and above all “works” as a 3D printed jewel?
What you can win
Ten winners will be selected and their pieces will be offered for sale in the .MGX Store in Sablon Brussels. The jewelry design will always remain your property and you will receive a 5% royalty on every sold item.
The top 3 will also receive a 3D print of their work.
Additionally the overall winner will receive a personal one on one MasterClass from noted hat designer Elvis Pompilio.
The winner will also get to collaborate on a 3D printed product with Mr. Pompilio.
There will be a further exhibition of the winner’s work at a Sablon together with a 3D printed jewelry workshop lead by Karen Wuytens.
Exceptional work will be considered for inclusion in the .MGX collection.
We will also dedicate PR support to you so that we can hopefully get your work noticed!
Guidelines
The contest runs from today to the 1st of June. Winners should be announced by mid July.
Submit either a sketch or 3D model as well as an additional explanation of your piece.
You can add renderings or multiple sketches if you would like.
You can select any material in the i.materialise arsenal. But, if we do select your piece as one of the 10 winning pieces we reserve the right to 3D print it in a material of our choosing.
The piece above is by Karen Wuytens and an example of a joyous and attractive 3D printed jewelry piece.
19 Comments
the above says 'You can add renderings or multiple sketches if you would like' however the entry form seems to allow for only one .jpg file to be attached per entry. I'd love to show multiple views of some designs
Joris
I appologize for any comments made that could cause offense. I really don't mean to cause offense, but I do ask that before people vote on winning entries, they consider the full scale of the task in hand. As a designer, I just don't see the appeal of certain items, and when others rave about it, I can only ask for an explanation. I don't want people hating on me just because I made a controversial remark, rather I ask that people explain their choices so that I may understand their point of view. This is where good debate comes in, and this is how good designs are born.
I'm not the most influential designer in the world, but I am a designer none the less. Sorry again for any offence taken, none was meant. Can I ask one of the people who 'liked' the armour jewellery to tell me why they do like it, and what the appeal of it is in this context (RP comp.)?
Most of the jewelry pieces have been printed and are available on http://i.materialise.com/gallery. More photos can be found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaterialise/sets/72157627074809985/detail
From next week on, we will gradually add more designs to the gallery.
I have seen some the pieces been printed but what about the final results of the competition? There should 10 selected designer and among these 3 should get their job printed and the winner should get also a Master Class. Is not anymore like that?
you probably missed this blog post, in which we announced the winners.
http://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/winners-of-the-3d-printed-jewlery-contest.
Martijn
I missed the results!
Thanks
Alberto
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