Patrick Jouin wins a Red Dot Award for his MGX.Bloom lamp
Very loud cheers and congratulations to our colleagues over at .MGX and designer Patrick Jouin. Patrick Jouin has just won a Red Dot Award for his .MGX.Bloom lamp in the category outstanding product design!
The Bloom table lamp is inspired by nature. As many flowers do the Bloom can actually bloom by opening and closing. The entire lamp shade is 3D printed and the shade is produced in one piece and works straight out of the 3D printer. By letting the lamp bloom you can mechanically regulate the light that comes out of it. Opening and closing this lamp is addictive as you can see the hinges move and the entire body slot into itself. Its a wonderful lamp to look at but also a powerful example of the power of 3D printing. Its a huge honor for the lamp to be awarded with a RedDot and I”m sure all of our colleagues are happy not only for .MGX but also because Patrick Jouin”s beautiful design is 3D printed here at Materialise. The same 3D printers and the same high level of c
Priority 24 get your 3D prints quicker
Faster 3D prints anyone? We’ve just launched Priority 24. Priority 24 is a way for you to get your 3D prints quicker. With this option we will 3D print your design within 24 hours. When you get it depends on where you live. If you order before 12:00 CET on a Monday we will produce it within 24 hours and ship it Tuesday. If you’re in the UK, Belgium, France, Netherlands and Germany your order should be delivered on Wednesday. If you’re in a US major city you should also get it on Wednesday also. Major Asian cities will get their orders on Thursday.
- To use this service choose the Polyamide Priority material when uploading.
- You can order models up to 100 by 100 by 100mm.
- Priority makes your order 30% more expensive.
- If you miss the 12:00 CET deadline it will arrive one day later.
- If there is an issue with your model that we have to fix or come back to you with questions about, it will also take at least one day more.
- Customs hold ups or shipping delays might delay the ar
Free shipping on orders above $99
We”ve looked at the results of our free shipping experiment over the past few weeks. The results were very encouraging and lead to an increase of orders from faraway places. In light of this we”re now offering you free shipping on any and all orders that are more than $99 or 99 Euro depending on which currency you pay us in. We like the fact that we can make it cheaper for you to order from us and can now get your goods, concept models, lamps, book ends and all the other awesomeness for less. We hope this encourages you to make more things with us and let more of your creations to stream in for us to make.
We know that many people would like to also have free shipping on orders below $99. At the moment we”re not ready to do this. There is a lot of handling involved with small parts and this drives up their cost and overal costs. It will be easier for us to control costs and lower overal prices in the long term if we concentrate on stimulating you to make larger pieces. In
First World War Soldier identified using 3D Printing
A team of researchers from Canada”s Directorate of History and Heritage have managed to identify the remains of a First World Soldier. The team used forensic anthropology, facial reconstruction, isotopic analysis and…3D printing to identify the fallen soldier.
Canadian private Thomas Lawless was killed on June 8th 1917. His body, along with a comrade, was discovered in 2003 on a construction site. The comrade could be identified using DNA testing but the team were unable to find a  mitochondrial DNA sample to compare Private Lawless” DNA to.
The initial scan of the remains. Image credit Steve Kruithof.
“The identification team created 3D computer models of Lawless”s skull, derived from CT scan data of several large skull fragments, in order to narrow the list of possible matches for the remains. Physical models of the skull were produced using a Z Corporation 3D printer (..). Using muscle markings on the skull model, scientific tissue-depth tables and plastili
Opening the Pandora’s Box that is 3D Printing
Its great to see that the world is catching on the the potential of 3D printing. It is a transformational technology that will speed up innovation & democratize technology. It has the potential to make almost every single product in our world better either by speeding up product & development or by producing things that fit tasks better. You will be able to make what you want exactly as you want it to be. We will be able to personalize, customize and design our world. Implants, medical instruments and replacement parts of our bodies will be created.
Products will be improved literally, continually, globally by loose networks of people collaborating at speeds we can scarcely imagine. By combining the connectivity of the internet and its creative force with decentralized production the variety of things optimized for a certain task will explode. Every niche will be filled, layer by layer. Not only will innovation be democratized it will be near instantaneous. As soon as an idea ha
Fluid Forms & i.materialise partnership announced
We”re pleased to announce our partnership with Fluid Forms. Fluid Forms is an Austrian team of designers that have been working on creative design tools since 2005. Their tools are fun ways that let you customize and individualize your own designs. Using Fluid Forms you can for example virtually box your own lamp design or get your own personalized wall clock based on an overhead view of streets of your choice.
We”re very happy to be able to work with such an experienced design team. Fluid Forms makes personalization not only easy but also fun. With their creative and enganging online tools and our 3D printing expertise we hope to be able to offer you many great personalized products in the future. For us this is yet another important step in seeking out the best design talent we can and working with them to help them create and promote their work.
We will be handling the production of three great Fluid Forms designs the Silver Earth Cufflinks, the Silver Earth Pin and t
i.materialise site redesign
Today we launched the first version of our new site. In the coming weeks more updates will follow. We”ve updated the look and feel of the site and hope you like the results. The most important thing is that we”re going to give your stories and your designs a much more central place in the website. We want to emphasize that we as a company are a factory for your ideas. Your creativity as a designer, inventor or artist coupled with our 3D printing prowess leads to the expression of your idea in an object. This object could be a keepsake, a Design Academy graduation project, an invention, a jewel, an art piece or a product meant for sale. For each object we will use all our skill, years of experience and equipment to create the most accurate representation of your idea that we can. We will treat each file and each 3D printed object with care and take the time to give you the advice you need. And to show the world what your idea and design skill and our manufacturing leads to
This week in 3D printing: March 5th to March 11th
March 7th. EADS” Innovation Center 3D prints a bicycle in SLS and gets to show it on the BBC.
March 8th. TCT Magazine takes exception at much of the mainstream media”s coverage of 3D printing.
March 10th. Shapeways reintroduces Silver, Bruce Sterling promptly reproduces the entire press release on his blog.
March 11th. The Open3DP lab 3D prints in bone.
March 11th. Investor blog Seeking Alpha goes gaga over 3D printing.
3D printing in bone now possible
The insanely creative team over at Open3DP have amazed us yet again. Now they have been able to 3D print in bone. For a project with Juliana Meira do Valle and Michael Storey the team developed a way to create a bone mixture that can be 3D printed. The mixture consists of Powdered Bone Meal, Powdered Sugar, MaltoDextrin and urea formaldehyde resin is used as a binder. The team found out that you buy your very own food safe powdered bown meal at your local health or vitamin store, by far the most worrying thing I”ve learned today. The recipe should you want to 3D print your own bone at home:
Powdered Bone Meal — 4-5 parts by weight.
UF plastic resin glue  — 1 part by weight.
After five weeks of testing the team was sucessfully able to 3D print the bone 3D prints needed for the project. This is still an early test and by no means does this mean you can take your 3D printer with you on your next ski vacation, just in case. But, it is another piece of groundbreaking
PeliDesign”s Machine”s Perception doorhandles, 3D printed in steel
We”re proud that our collaboration with Alexander Pelikan of PeLiDesign has resulted in some beautiful doorhandles. A few years ago Peli (you can try call him Alexander but he prefers Peli) worked with TNO and Studio Ludens on his Machine”s Perception project. This project aimed to look at how machines percieve things and explored the limits and resolutions of 3D scans of a number of household objects, including doorhandles. Now Peli has turned his project into a line of doorhandles that he will present in Milan at the International Furniture Fair. Â
We think that the first of these doorhandles shows great promise. Not only is it an interesting design but it is also a sophisticated working 3D printed product. Not a just a concept, not just a fun model or a shape but something that people would and could have in their houses. Something that will replace boring doorhandles. We believe that there are people all over the world looking for more interesting, more engaging
