Who is….(y)our Product Designer?
Hi everyone!
It’s time to introduce myself. Tatiana, our community manager, has requested it already so many times that I lost count but here it goes. I’m Bert and have been working for Materialise for 3,5 years now. Until recently I only worked for .MGX by Materialise as a Product Development Specialist but now I also lend my services to i.materialise.
Mainly I have been working with designers from all over the world on luminaries and interior products for the .MGX Collection. I was involved in the development of the Cadence.MGX, the Gamete.MGX and the Dragonfly.MGX to name a few. With my knowledge of possibilities and limitations of the different 3D printing techniques, I ‘m well place to give assistance and guidance to the designers. For i.materialise I have developed the instructables, design guides for the new materials and I am working on other (behind the scene) products and material developments.
Enough about my work at Materialise, now a little bit more about m
Back to School Meetup: 28th of September
Did you always want to know more about 3D printing your designs? We’d love to welcome you to our next Meetup at i.materialise.
WHO
Every designer, independant business owner, working professional,…. that’s interested in 3D printing. Journalists are welcome as well to meet our designers and follow a tour through one of the biggest 3D printing facilities in the world.
WHY
It’s a great opportunity to meet fellow designers and share your experiences, so don’t forget to bring your 3D printed design. You’ll get to know more about the services we offer, you can see all te materials you can print in and ask all your questions concerning 3D printing to our support engineers.
PROGRAM
- Welcome
- Presentation and see materials
- Tour
- Drink & Talk
WHERE
Materialise
Technologielaan 15
3001 Leuven
WHEN
Friday 28th of September 2012, 14.00-18.00 GMT +2 (Belgium time)
REGISTER
You can register on this website!
Hope to see you soon.
Urban Nomad Challenge: 3 materials, 3 winners!
ABOUT THE CHALLENGE
Inspired by our modern and mobile way of living we introduce to you our new challenge: The Urban Nomad Challenge! Let the nomads inspire you to make something extra-ordinary, never-seen-before or handy 3D printable design. Nowadays, thanks to technology, we can work everywhere; we are urban nomads using all kinds of tools and gadgets to support our mobile life. From iPhone cases to cellphone holders…..Think about it and surprise us, there are so many options: a tool, an ingenious gadget, something to support a mobile lifestyle,…
RULES
Participants need to upload their file here. You can find more information about the file formats in our FAQs under ‘website’. You can choose between 3 materials: ceramics, polyamide or stainless steel. When you upload the file you can mention in the comments section in which material you would like your design to be 3D printed in.
There are limits on the size of the design:
Bounding box polyamide: 12,5 x 12,5 x 12,5
Designers: Get your name out!
Ok, now that you started designing, you want to take your creations (and yourselves) a level higher? No problem! Here are some tips to get yourself into the spotlight.
These days, the internet offers great opportunities to do self promotion. Set up a Facebook page for your projects and promote your designs through social media: Twitter and Facebook are perfect platforms to spread news about designing and connect with fellow designers. Or have you ever thought about an online portfolio? There are several portfolio communities to showcase your design. Try Behance , DeviantART, Coroflot or Computerlove. Get in touch with other artists and share knowledge or sell your designs.
VOTE
Promotional websites offer good opportunities to share all kinds of information. Think about Digg: you can submit stories and links and comment or vote on other links. If you have a lot of votes, you’ll get a nice position on the frontpage. Design Float and Design Bump are similar to Digg, but made for
3D printing in bronze has passed the test
We’re happy to say to you our trial period of bronze is over! So from now on we can serve you with exact prices and details about the designs on our webpage. The maximum size we offer is 50 x 50 x 50 mm, but we do encourage you to challenge us with bigger models. If you come up with a design a little bit bigger than the imaginary box, don’t hesitate to tell us: we can check wheter it’s possible or not. We hope to print bigger models in time as research is still going on.
For the prices: we can say that a design up to 5 cm³ will cost you 38,50 dollar, for every extra cm³ you will pay 8,8 dollars extra. For compact models there’s an extra discount. The more material you have within the imaginary box around your model, the more discount you get for the same model volume.
Bronze is typically used for coins, medals, key or small figures, but don’t hesitate to think out of the box. We welcome any possible design!
Do you have more questions about your design, just mail it to cont
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!
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
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!
