Designer Portrait: 3D Customization Start-Up Twikit Uses 3D Printing to Make Personalized Products Come to Life
Martijn Joris, co-founder of the Antwerp-based startup Twikit, has a passion for 3D creation, making, and 3D printing. His company is pioneering a new way of customizing digital production and is rapidly carving its place in the 3D printing world. Twikit builds 3D customization tools for brands, retailers and designers that allow consumers to create their own unique products and bring them to life with 3D printing. We met up with this visionary entrepreneur to learn more about the passion that drives him and to see first-hand how new, cutting-edge apps are developed in his co-working space. (more…)
How 3D Printing Allows For Customization of Products: Meet Martijn Joris, Co-Founder of Belgian Start-up Twikit
Martijn Joris has a passion for 3D creation and making. He co-founded Twikit in 2012, a Belgian start-up that builds easy creation tools, allowing consumers to create unique products and bring them to life with 3D printing. Twikit is pioneering a new way of using digital production technologies in the creation of customized products.
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i.materialise and Twikit Now Powering 3D Printing at Auchan
Ever dream of going into a store and customizing an item to be 3D printed? Well, now customers of Auchan’s store in Lille can go to Yoomake, an in-store kiosk, to make “mini-me” figurines, jewelry, trophies and medals to be 3D printed at i.materialise. Even people with no previous 3D printing experience can customize a design and get involved to get high-quality prints. (more…)
Twikit Releases Seal Ring and Cufflinks Apps
Twikit designs 3D Customization tools for brands and designers. Last summer, they powered jewelry designer Anne Zellien with her own customizable necklace app. This time, they’ve teamed up with Dutch brand POSTUUM and Belgian designer duo DAMN for 2 new jewelry apps.
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Twikit launches customizable Jewelry app
Belgian company Twikit launched their first customizable trophy app a few months ago, now they’re conquering the hearts of many girls and women with their new jewelry app. (more…)
Tweak it, build it: unique 3D printed trophies by Twikit
Enough with the generic, uninspired metal medals. Three friends, Martijn, Gijs and Georges, just introduced their company Twikit. Winning will now be even sweeter thanks to their 3D printed personalized trophies.
Winning is great. But everytime I see the medals and trophies I can’t help myself thinking: ‘Again?’ For years, there haven’t been big changes or innovations in the trophy market to supply the winners with a hip and glam -3D printed- medal they deserve. Till now! Belgian based company Twikit is ready to change that industry. Martijn Joris, one of the founders: “We see ourselves as an exponent of the ‘makers’ era with a strong consumer oriented point of view. We want people to tweak and build products in the easiest way possible. Everybody can tweak our designs by using our online configurator.”
The Twikit team created an online platform through which anyone can personalize and order their very own 3D printed award. The company takes care of the production and finishing o
“Discover the Unimaginable” – Take a Look at the i.materialise Video Spot
With the launch of our new website design earlier this month, we are also happy to release our new i.materialise video spot. We visited 3D designers and community members all over the world and learned how 3D printing is changing their way of designing and creating products.
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Live Update from the Materialise World Conference
Twenty-five years ago, a young research engineer saw a 3D printer for the first time. Seeing this novel technology in action immediately sparked his interest and, more importantly, his imagination. Now, 25 years in, we are proud of all the meaningful innovations we’ve materialized, and invited the “Leaders of the 3D Printing World” to come to Belgium to celebrate with us at the Materialise World Conference.
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10 Examples of How 3D Printing Is Changing Consumer Products
Everybody’s talking about 3D printing: 3D printed implants, 3D printed cars, 3D printed houses. While the media likes to focus on big projects, a large part of this new industrial revolution is happening in small design studios, backyard sheds, and start-ups by makers, designers, and other creative minds. In this post, we show you some examples of how 3D printing is changing our everyday consumer products. (more…)
Viva Las Vegas – i.materialise looks back at CES 2015
Taking place in Las Vegas from January 6th to 9th, this year marked the second edition of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 3D Printing Marketplace. Organized by the intrepid team at TCT Magazine + Personalize, it was i.materialise’s first time participating in the event. Just like the awe-inspiring hotels and casinos of its host city, it goes without saying that CES was an incredibly huge and impressive event with more than 150,000 visitors. (more…)
