Designer Portrait: Stunning Footwear Created by Shoe Designer Katrien Herdewyn
Katrien Herdewyn, a shoe designer with a background in engineering, material sciences, and nanotechnology, is blurring the lines between science and fashion. This talented Belgian designer creates stunning footwear by relying on traditional craftsmanship skills as well as cutting-edge technology. For our latest video interview, we met up with Katrien to learn more about the passion that drives her.
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SpaceTime, a Personalized 3D-Printed Solar System
3D printing is the perfect technology for a product that needs to be customized. That’s why award-winning French artist Govy’s idea for a jewelry item that truly needs to be personalized is so smart: a pendant that shows the constellation of the solar system at your date of choice, based on data provided by NASA.
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You Can Now Buy Your Own Piece of Design History: The Lily.MGX Pushed 3D Printing from Prototyping to Design
In 2003, Finnish digital sculptor Janne Kyttanen presented a 3D print unlike any other to the audience of Milan Design Week. Until then, 3D printing was considered more of a prototyping technology. Janne pushed the boundaries and presented a 3D print that was meant for the consumer market. Little did the designer know that his Lily.MGX print would pave the way for many other great designs to be produced with the help of 3D printers.
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Designer Portrait: Model Train Designer Kees-Jan van Vessem Builds Incredibly Detailed Scale Model Worlds
With 3D printing, you can create entire new worlds. And that’s exactly what Dutch railway and model train designer Kees-Jan van Vessem has been doing with his “Rail-Kees” label and webshop for years now. We haven’t seen many designers that put more effort, precision and passion into their designs than Kees-Jan. That’s why we met up with this talented designer and learned more about the passion that drives him, as well as how he produces one-of-a-kind scale models.
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Wearable 3D Printed Tech from Japan: Masaharu Ono’s Knitted Vest
3D printing is already shaping the way we design and produce unique fashion pieces. 3D printed fashion by designers such as Iris van Herpen and threeASFOUR has already been worn at runways around the world. But while those designs might be impressive feats of integrating technology with fashion, you can hardly wear them while nipping down to the shops for some groceries.
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Exploring 3D Printing in Furniture Design: Jon Christie’s State-of-the-Art Furniture
Meet Jon Christie, a former DJ who discovered a passion for Scandinavian furniture, design, and 3D printing. In his latest project, John explored 3D printing in furniture design and has been enhancing chairs and tables with smartly modeled 3D printed parts. Jon’s state of the art furniture is both exciting and elegant in equal measures. His table and chair designs blend traditional craftsmanship, modernist design, and state-of-the-art 3D printing technology.
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Meet Designer Desmond Chan and His Collection of 3D Printed Precious Metal Jewelry Inspired by Salvador Dali
More and more jewelry designers are discovering the great potential and design freedom that 3D printing offers. i.materialise enables designers from all over the world to order 3D prints in precious metals such as brass, bronze, silver or gold. Desmond Chan, founder of jewelry label Vulcan Jewelry is one of the outstanding designers working with these materials through 3D printing. Read on to learn more about his innovative necklaces and bracelets.
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Enhancing The World’s Most Bad-Ass Mowers with 3D Printing
You’ve probably never seen lawn mowers anything like this. While for most of us lawn mowers just need to make sure that our backyard doesn’t turn into a jungle, municipalities, plants and national parks need remote-controlled mowers with extreme power to overcome obstacles and slopes, which also don’t cause erosion. And where there is a tailored need for solutions, 3D printing fits the bill perfectly.
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SUPERLORA: A 3D Printed Jewelry Brand at the Intersection of Art and Science
Having initially studied physics and only later turned to the world of jewelry and fashion design, Ariadne Kapelioti calls herself a “scientist-gone-artist.” According to Ariadne, art and science actually share surprising similarities, however much they might seem like polar opposites in popular imagination. That’s why she instantly fell in love with 3D printing when she first discovered it; she knew that it would be the perfect tool to express her ideas and emotions in a scientific way.
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