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Month: January 2014

A New Dimension For Book Covers

A New Dimension For Book Covers

Lien Dierckx recently graduated from Luca, School of Arts, campus Sint-Lucas Ghent with a collection of four books with 3D printed covers. And we found them so interesting we had to share them with you! The four books are a study about how modern artists get inspired by art history. Dierckx found contemporary artists are looking for a way to give old art a (sometimes literal) new dimension, and so she decided to visualise this idea with… Yes! 3D printed covers!

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Recycling 3D Printing Materials: 4 Possible Solutions

Recycling 3D Printing Materials: 4 Possible Solutions

When will more eco-friendly and sustainable materials be available for use in 3D printers? Something like hemp plastic or other biodegradable materials? What are the technical limitations and who is working on them? Read on to find answers to these and more questions about ABS recycling, PLA recycling, and new materials that are on their way. Below we outline, very broadly, four mayor developments in recycling and 3D printing. These developments are: recycling existing 3D printing materials, using materials that are already recycled as 3D printing materials, using bioplastics, and recycling on location. (more…)

The Devil’s Chair

The Devil’s Chair

We’re no angels… Ok, we’ll admit it. Even we ourselves sometimes feel like there’s a little bit of a devil inside us. Not a big one, not a very bad one, but a small little devil that kicks us very hard in the side every morning when we’re supposed to be polite to the man wearing too much cologne on the bus ride to work. Designer Rendy Himawan knows the feeling: he created a chair based on this very idea and called it the Devil’s Chair.

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Eric van Straaten Presents the Largest Full Color 3D Printed Sculpture in the World

Eric van Straaten Presents the Largest Full Color 3D Printed Sculpture in the World

Last Wednesday, the Amsterdam art fair REALISM opened its doors and this year marked the first time that the Dutch contemporary figurative art fair has featured a special exhibition of 3D printed art. Dutch artist, Eric van Straaten, is a prominent name in this exhibition thanks to his latest work ‘Priezah’, the world’s largest full-color 3D printed sculpture – printed with great care and attention here at i.materialise.

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