Check out the 3D printed Dragonbite: the winner of the Metal Challenge
It was a very hard decision to choose a winner for our Metal Accessoires Challenge but, as we mentioned in an earlier blogpost, Vangelis and Dinos convinced us with their marvellous design: the dragonbite pencil. We’re very happy to present to you the 3D printed resultand we can tell: it fits perfectly in your hand!
Its ergonomical design fits perfectly in your hand.
Don’t forget our other challenge, the Facebook/Forum Design Challenge: Post a nice picture of your project in ‘Unbox it’ on our forum and win a voucher of 250 euro for 3D printing. We post the pictures on Facebook, whoever gets the most likes can when another voucher of 250 euro. Good luck to you all!
Featured Friday- showing your 3D printed designs
Another week full of nice looking, inventive designs has passed. We selected some eyecatching 3D printed items that caught our attention. First of all, we want to show you this elegant ring Woman, made by Els Cuvelier, a designer from the Netherlands. Can you imagine this ring around your finger?
Another nice design is this gold plated brass pendant made by Dizingof. It’s called Klein Bottle and it’s a mathematics shape. You can wear it on a necklace or just put it on your desk as an eyecatcher.
It’s always fun to be surprised by a design, such as this one, made by Carlos Gomez, in white polyamide. This shopping bag helper makes your shopping a little easier (and less painful) especially when you’re walking around with too many plastic bags in one hand! By its finger friendly grip it gives you just the support you need, instead of having paintful fingers. Who knows we’re all walking around with this in a couple of months.
Hope to see more nice designs in the future. Have a n
Iris Van Herpen: taking her dresses a level higher
‘Could a dress create the impression that it is moving by itself or make the viewer believe that it is making the wearer compelling to walk’, is in short a description used by fashion journalist Jean Paul Cauvin about Van Herpen her dresses. It illustrates perfectly her groundbreaking innovations and experimental designs. As she says herself ‘couture represents the future of fashion’, her collections are living it to the fullest.
Iris Van Herpen, not just another 27-year young Dutch woman, is putting the fashion industry upside down with her designs. She is not a promising talent. She is a talent. We’ve blogged about her before but she keeps amazing us every day. Her dresses from her latest collection Hybrid Holism are one by one true pieces of art and clever design.
DREAMS
In 2008 she started off with her collections Chemical Crows for which she used children’s umbrella’s, industrial boat yarns, leather, metal chaines and so on. A few collections later she discovered 3D prin
Designerhub The Machine discovers i.materialise
Last friday we were glad to finally meet the designers of The Machine, a designerhub created by i.materialise and Designplatform Limburg. For the first time they could see their 3D printed designs which they all developed for the exposition at C-Mine Genk under the theme ‘mining’.
We saw a lot of curious faces about the facilities we have at our disposal. To introduce everyone started off with an overview of i.materialse in the co-creation room.
POSSIBILITIES
The group couldn’t wait to see and touch all the materials. ‘Is that really possible?’and ‘It’s so wonderful’ were only some of the quotes we heared. Excited as they were, they were firing their questions at our support engineers to look into future possibilites for their designs.
TRAINS
The looks on their faces were amazing as we were passing by the different 3D printers and they could actually see objects being printed at the moment of speaking. The showroom gave them an idea about the endless creativ
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
A new week has passed. We welcomed new designers into our house and to kick off the weekend we present you our favorite designs!
Our first pick off the week is the AERO Chair, designed by Jean-François Roulon is made in white Polyamide. The picture you see below is a scaled model. It consists of two peaces which can be be assembled by sliding the back-leg component into the slit of the seat-back leg.
The second design seems a little bit odd, but it’s a custom gnome figurine. It looks like a shrinked human being with the clothes, pose and park bench. The designer, Josh Azevedo, used multicolor composite for this design.
Last, but not least, we picked out Semeaureo, a lovely pendant, made by Marco Ferrarin. For this piece of jewelry he used gold plated brass.
Now, enjoy your weekend everyone. Can’t wait to to see more of your designs!
Winner Metal Accessories Challenge
We have a winner! It was a tough decision, but finally there is only one winner….and that’s the Dragonbite Pencil, made by Vangelis and Dinos. They win their own 3D printed design!
On June the 15th we introduced our Metal Accessories Challenge: we wanted designers to make something useful with a nice design at the same time. We gave everyone six weeks to show us their best work in stainles steel. It had to be something that makes your everyday life just a little easier and comfortable. The dragonbite is ergonomically designed and you can adjust it the way you wantallowing you to find the most comfortable way to write.
Not only is it handy to use, the designers made a beautiful and fun design. Just what we love and we hope you will too.
On behalf of the whole i.materialise team we wish these designers the very best and we thank all the other participants for their nice designs too.
Don’t forget our other challenge, the Facebook/Forum Design Challenge: Post a nice picture
We introduce to you: Ceramics
We’re very happy to give you the possibility to print in ceramics, as the latest material available on i.materialise. Imagine all the new, beautiful designs you can make: table ware, tiles and even jewelry or candle holders. Anything is possible, really. The models are made from alumina silica ceramic powder and sealed with porcelain and silicia. The colored glaze we apply after printing is a lead-free, non-toxic gloss.
The lovely thing about ceramics is all the nice colors you can choose from. They say ‘there’s a color for every mood’, so we made a selection of eight, in our eyes nice, fresh and warm colors. Choose the colors you like the most, we offer you a wide range:
- Glossy white
- Glossy Black
- Lemon Yellow
- Pistachio Green
- Sky blue
- Ocean Turquoise
- True blue
- Peach Orange
For more detailed information about the basic properties and pricing, check out our webpage.
Not only is this material we’re using heat resistant (up to 600°C), b
Share your projects on our newly launched forum and win a voucher of 250 euro!
Did you ever want to discuss your techniques with other designers? Or get feedback? Or you want to show your project? Now you can! We just launched our forum for all the members to connect and share their experiences related to 3D printing.
It’s a great way to meet your fellow designers and other members of our community. We want to offer you more than just 3D printing service. We are a vibrant community of creative, out-of-the-box thinking artists, designers, thinkers and doers.
To start off we’d love to see your work. Show your project (in a very creative way of course) that was printed by us on the forum in unbox it and after six, on September the 15th, we will choose one of your designs. The lucky winner get’s a voucher of 250 euro for 3D printing. And that’s not all…We will also post the pictures from unbox it in an album on our Facebook page . Whoever gets the most likes can win another voucher of 250 euro for 3D printing. So get your project out there and start liking!
