Business cards 2.0: Watch out for the 3D printed super heroes!
How many of your received business cards did you lose in your life? Too many probably. Creative agency ‘resoluut‘ came up with a solution: they replaced their 2D cards by 3D printed avatar statues: Super heroes to the rescue!
Micha Commeren: “We started creating business cards with superheroes, but we absolutely wanted to test 3D printing to stay up to date with this revolutionary technolgy. Each team member has its own personal superheroe, like the incredibles. Mine for example, is an action figure with two babies, because I’m a proud parent of two. But you can also see a space helmet; I keep the overview in the office (= earth). ”
“3Dwergen, a company specialized in 3D printed gifts, printed all the figures in multicolor. Now people are sending us pictures of the statues on the weirdest places: Mission accomplished!”
Share us your personal 3D printed story: tatiana.dewee@materialise.be
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day everyone!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day everyone! It’s time to go green today..
We’ve just introduced our new green dye finish for polyamide; perfect to create a shamrock for Saint Patrick’s Day. Enjoy!
Don’t forget: Order some samples! It’s the best way to get a good sense of the materials. You can buy a basic sample kit or seperate samples.
Prepare yourself for Saint Patrick’s Day…With our green dye finish!
Our range of finishes is continuously growing and today we’re happy to introduce our green dye finish for polyamide. Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day!
We’re expanding our family of color finishes more and more. On Valentine’s day we introduced pink to you, today we’re adding green to our range. Try it out for free now, until the 3rd of April!
- Dimensions max 200 x 200 x 180 mm
- Pricing: 0,25€ per cm³ on top of the natural white color price + a start up of 1€ per type of model with a maximum of 20€.
Do you want to see the finish yourself? Order some samples! It’s the best way to get a good sense of the materials. You can buy a basic sample kit or seperate samples.
With 16 materials and over 70 finishes, i.materialise offers one of the widest material ranges in the world to 3D print in. We’re always making sure our designers get the best quality offer and with our design guides on the material pages, we lead you to the finish of your design.
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday! Check out the latest gallery items.
Printcraft, an online world that lets Minecraft players convert their Minecraft creations into 3D printable files, printed this nice pendant in silver.
Next design is a a 1900’s door latch created by Ben Jane in prime gray: “I designed it for my house since we’re missing the original one. I sculpted the design to be similar to the orginals but then added custom text.”
Our last design is a Daisy ring created by Tweetonig in gold plated and polished brass. Who hasn’t made one when they were young? It was used to play husband and wife with an anonymus daisy ring as a symbol for their love. The ring has one open side and can therefor be used as different sizes.
Do you want your design to be featured on our website? Then don’t forget to put your design in the gallery or on our forum. Hace fun designing!
Opening a bottle has never been so cool!
Can’t find the right (fancy and shiny) bottle opener you’re looking for? Then just design one yourself and 3D print it like Andrew Martin.
Andrew sure knows how to intrigue his invitees. He created an eagle head bottle opener and 3D printed it in naturalpolished bronze. Andrew: “I’m so happy with the bronze material, it actually gleams like gold.”
Andrew was even so happy, he made a little YouTube movie about his design:
Do you want to know more about bronze? Read our last Material Monday or go to the material page.
Do you want your design to be featured on the blog? Send an e-mail to tatiana.dewee@materialise.be or show your design on our forum.
Get your groove on with Bronze and Stainless Steel
It’s time for a new Material Monday. This month: Check out the new design guides of bronze and stainless steel!
Stainless steel is one of the cheapest material of our steel family. It’s perfect to give your design extra character. The material looks a little pitted and robust and is often used for scale models, jewelry (but be aware of skin irritation) and decorative models.
COMPETITIVE PRICING
For models up to 5 cm³ volume you pay $35.00 for non gold plated colors and $41.00 for gold plated colors. For every extra cm³ above 5 cm3 -till 40 cm³- you pay $8.00 extra. For every extra cm³ above 40cm³ you pay $7.5 extra. For compact models we have a discount: The more material you have within the imaginary box around your model, the bigger your discount becomes for the same model volume. Check out the material page for more information.
Do you need more details? Then high detailed stainless steel could be perfect for you. It’s got the strenght of titanium, but the pricing is less ex
Accessory Challenge- Be inspired by birds
Did you ever dream of an international platform to show off your design skills? Then prepare for our next challenge! i.materialise, in cooperation with Materialise Malaysia, challenges you to make the most unique, breath taking 3D printed accessory inspired by birds.
Do you want to be the star of a fashion show? Then we have great news! On the 14th of June, Materialise organizes an international 3D design fashion show in Malaysia. As a participant your creation can earn a spot at this event! The event will be attended by national and international media houses.
This is the perfect opportunity for you to try out and explore the 3D printing technology and experiment with design.
THE CHALLENGE
For this competition, your challenge is to use 3D printing to create a fashion/lifestyle accessory around the theme of “birds” (Yes, birds who have the freedom to soar high into the clear blue skies!). This accessory can be anything: jewelry (such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, …), belts,
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D prints
Happy Friday everyone! Check out our latest gallery entries.
Paul Marx customized the bust of Richelieu with a 3D scan of his fathers face. He created the design in natural white polyamide.
This beautiful vase is 3D printed in ceramics by Printopi. The design is inspired by Gustav Adamis in the early 1980s and printed in ocean turquoise.
We love 3D printing because it creates a perfect environment for makers, just like Jan Dewever. He created cufflinks for his son and personalized it by adding the letters of his name. Dewever: “Since this was my first 3D printing experiment I printed them in polyamide with a blue dye finish. For me the test was so succesful that I will also have them printed in high detailed stainless steel for sure.
Don’t forget to put you’re own design in the gallery, maybe you will be the next one featured on the blog?
Or do you have a story you want to share related to your 3D print? contact tatiana.dewee@materialise.be
Meet the (train) designer: Ed de Bruijn
There are so many beautiful scaled train and tram models in our gallery that we couldn’t wait any longer to put them on the blog. Meet one of the specialists: Ed de Bruijn.
Where did you grow up?
« I grew up near and in Haarlem, the Netherlands. I had a relaxed childhood being the youngest of 5 children. In 1986 I met my wife and we got married in 1994. In 1999 we moved to Bussum, where we still live. We have two kids, Ewout (16) and Rozemarijn (12).»
What do you do in your everyday life?
« I used to be an Interim Manager, but unfortunately the crisis hit hard so I tried to find a new way of living. I’ve been building train models for many years and people were always very enthusiastic about my design skills. They asked me so many times to build them a model too, but there was a big problem: I used to build in metal (brass) and the number of hours to get the result was too big. The price of the model would become enormous so luckily I heard about 3D printing! Now I can order th
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Roberto Trentin gather the most votes in the last Valentine’s challenge. His ‘hearts embraced’ ring was printed in high detailed stainless steel. Roberto: “This ring represents the embrace of two hearts with a hidden message, a declaration of love in Italian: “ti amo”, immersed in the decoration as a sort of secret statement.”
‘Diamonds are Forever’ is an eclectic mix of multiple abstract gems and a classical solitaire, confined in silver mineral formations. A beautiful ring in high gloss silver by Isaie Bloch, the second winner of the Valentine’s challenge.
And last but not least, Pinar Timur printed a case and a case back of a watch in stainless steel and the bezel in titanium. The watch has a automatic winding Swiss movement, is waterproof, and has a functioning rotating bezel. The dial was made by acid etching and painted with glow in the dark luminous
