Meet Mark Bloomfield – A Man with a Winning Spirit
As promised yesterday, we present you with the winner of the Hats off to 3D Printing Design Challenge… Mr. Mark Bloomfield. Below you’ll find the interview we took with him after the 3D printed fashion show of the Materialise World Conference.
And for those of you that like pictures… here are some of Mark Bloomfield’s winning masterpiece: Daisy.
Stories from the Materialise World Conference
The Materialise World Conference has kicked off with a bang and we’re here to tell you our stories. As you might have seen on our constant tweets, yesterday on April 18th, the Materialise World Conference finally opened the doors to its many guests. Amongst them were European President Herman Van Rompuy, countless world famous 3D printing companies and fashion icons like the master milliner Elvis Pompilio himself.
Together with its many successful clients, Materialise CEO Wilfried Vancraen showcased the current state of 3D Printing technology and did this through an extensive program that touches many different industries.
Of course we at i.materialise were also present and had the wonderful opportunity to be accompanied by some of our most dearest friends and designers. Amongst them were also some of the participants of the Hats off to 3D Printing Design Challenge. It was a grand pleasure to see them arrive from places as far as Australia as was the case for design c
Because we love to touch fluffy things
Recently we gave you the possibility to add some color to your polyamide designs. We loved the results and saw it was good. Today we bring you something that looks just as great and feels even better. It’s the ability to turn your polyamide designs into colorful fluffy works of art by adding colored fibers onto your model (we call it adding velvet fur). We tried it out, took some pictures and again… we saw it was good. Considering this will be offered as a trial during a period of about two months, we look forward to your feedback to turn our good results into great ones.
So, how can you add fluffiness to your polyamide you might ask? By simply selecting it in the finishing tab in the 3D print lab as shown below.
Ok… so now that you know how that works, let’s take a look at some of the facts about adding velvet fur at i.materialise:
- The ability to fur up your polyamide designs will be launched as a trial that ends on June 17th
- The minimum bounding
Getting Ready for the Materialise World Conference
As mentioned on our blog before… this year will see the rise of another Materialise World Conference. As it’s just around the corner we thought it would be a great idea to remind you guys of the awesomeness that it will bring. Are you curious to know who will win the Hats off to 3D Printing Design Challenge? Then definitely stay tuned on our twitter account on Wednesday April 18th as we will be announcing it through there as soon as it’s revealed to us. We also plan to tweet some pictures of the event as the day progresses to keep you up to date on the latest 3D Printing news.
The following day we’ll finally showcase all the Top 20 3D printed hats on our blog and on our flickr account + if possible provide you guys with inside information from some of the participants who will be present at the event themselves.
We’ll keep you updated so stay tuned!
Meet the Designer: Ulrich Schwanitz
Today I’d like to introduce you to our beloved friend and designer Ulrich Schwanitz. A man that continued a vision of his son through 3D printing and managed to bring adorable stainless steel characters to life in the name of love. He also just started an interesting funding campaign on Indiegogo (see video below) where you too can play a part in the realization of 3D printed love.
So for this lovely occasion we thought it would be interesting for our readers to get to know Dr. Ulrich Schwanitz a bit more ans the ideas and thoughts behind his latest project, The Scrappies. Here’s his story…
Tell us a bit about yourself… Who is Ulrich Schwanitz?
I am everything but a typical designer. I grew up as a scientist in the 1970’s and 80’s, and I still remember the times when computers were controlled by punch cards, typewriters and without undo buttons. I have worked in the IT departments of multinational manufacturing companies in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. During that
Meet the Designer: Josh Henry
Not too long ago, we received an order at i.materialise to 3D print some pretty big transparent pieces. Our curiosity kicked in and we decided to contact the designer to find out what these transparent parts were for. To our surprise, Josh revealed to us that it was for his magnificent Ula Miami Concept Car that he was developing at the University of Cincinnati. As soon as knew that, we didn’t hesitate a second and contacted him for an interview.
Here’s what our friend Josh had to say…
Tell us a bit about yourself… Who is Josh Henry?
I am currently a Junior at The University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Car design has been a passion of mine and is what I have wanted to do for as long as I can remember. Car design for me is really about creating a product with emotion. Creating a life, or a character if you will. Thinking about the interaction between a person and a vehicle and that emotional attachment that one has with the vehicle. These are things that fas
Stories from our latest Meetup
Last Friday we had a very successful meetup at i.materialise. We got to meet some of our community members and got to hear their stories first hand. We provided them with a presentation about our services and a guided tour of the facilities where they did (as promised) get to see about 60+ printers. We were also very excited to find people flying in from as far as Sweden or Slovenia to attend this meetup. Now that’s what I call passionate community members!
The attendees ranged from university students, to working professionals, to independent business owners and to accommodate them, we made sure to have a big part of our staff at their disposal. Questions got asked and answers were provided. It was the ideal way for us to interact with our community.
I must say that we were very satisfied with the results of our first meetup and we can only hope that our attendees enjoyed themselves as much as we did. If you are reading this and think to yourself “I wish I could have bee
Impressions from a very inspiring TEDxLeuven
Let me tell you of a place where you get to shake hands with the president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and hang out with the phenomenal chocolate master Domique Persoone at the same time… that place was TEDxLeuven. What is TED or TEDx for that matter? Watch the video below to find out!
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Take a walk down Fantasy Lane for this Design Challenge
Do you remember the days when you used to read these magical children’s storybooks as a child? Your imagination running wild while you processed the words on the page… Imagining the world and the characters behind the story… It was the perfect way to stimulate your imagination. Well today in collaboration with the awesome Digital Tutors, we ask you to jump back in time in search of the wonderful characters your imagination cooked up for you!
We have organized a design challenge where you get to walk down fantasy lane one more time to bring back the memories of your favorite children’s storybook character.
So the objective is to create your interpretation of any children’s’ storybook character, that is, it has to be an original design and not based on an existing illustration. The material used will be multicolor, so don’t hesitate to have a look at the multicolor design guide to maximize your chances of winning. So what can you win in this challenge? i.materialise will provid
Announcing a New Challenge with Too Many Wires
Ever found yourself tangled up between all these cords that connect your screens with your computer and your computer with your printer or router and so forth?
Unfortunately we live in a world with too many wires and considering technology is having it difficult to keep up with our demand for a wireless environment, why not find a solution ourselves?
The time to create that solution is NOW!
Mookum & i.materialise have joined forcess to bring you the following design challenge:
Create your own cord manager
This can be a cord manager that collects all the cables from your computer or one for all the loose phone and adapter cables in your bag. Or what about a cord manager to hold your earphone wires in place? The possibilities are endless, it’s up to you to find that perfect design that will fit your needs.
Find out more about this new challenge on Mookum’s website.
