Dario Scapitta’s 3D Printed Neck Piece “Extravaganza” Won the Design Silver Award
We’re excited to announce that Dario Scapitta’s 3D printed neck piece “Extravaganza” won the A Design Silver Award 2014, under the “Jewelry, Eyewear and Watch Design” category. Congratulations, Dario, from everyone here at i.materialise!
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The Articulated Cube: A Clever Piece of Engineering Made With SketchUp
Being a professional designer and CAD engineer is awesome and gives you almost boundless possibilities to unleash your creativity. Basically anyone can get creative and design something in 3D. Today, a lot of 3D design applications like SketchUp are free, easy to use and require no prior experience. Need a success story to be inspired?
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3D Printing Jewelry: Learn to Make Custom 3D Jewlery Designs with Jweel
What’s more romantic than searching high and low for a nice gem for your partner? Creating the perfect piece of jewelry yourself of course! And with the new online app Jweel you can do just that. This free-to-use app allows you to create custom jewelry, with the elegance and precision of a professional designer. It is a company to our liking that were more than happy to partner up with.
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We ♥ Autodesk’s 3D printing app Charmr!
Recently, Autodesk 123D has come up with a brand new tool that lets you personalize one-of-a-kind jewelry with your own photo: Project Charmr! After announcing this exciting news, we had to give it a try. Check it out to see the results!
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Kipling Enters the World of 3D Printing: No Monkey Business
Ever since they started in 1987, Belgian bags and accessories brand Kipling has given its monkey mascot a prominent role. No one can say ‘Kipling bag’ without referring to the iconic monkey key chains. For their latest collection ‘Monkey Madness’, Kipling and Materialise took it one step further. Based on the Monkey Madness collection, the “City Jungle Shopper” is a co-creation between Kipling and Materialise to showcase Kipling’s trademark monkey in the world’s first fully-flexible 3D Printing material TPU 92A-1.
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3D Printing and Iris van Herpen’s Biopiracy Fashion Show in Paris
Everything about Iris van Herpen’s Biopiracy Fashion Show in Paris was impressive, the setting, the music, the shrink wrapped models, and of course, the 3D printed, flexible dress!
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How Many Ways Can You Bring an Aardvark to Life?
Meet the Aardvark, a story about persevering with an idea. For sure many of you had various passions when you were kids. Perhaps you even drew pictures of them (back then we were all great artists, weren’t we?).
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Blueberries anyone?
Some people might eat them…some people might wear them! 3D printing offers an endless world of possibilities and fashion is definitely benefiting from it. At least that’s what jewelry maker Markéta Richterová and designer Zbynek Krulich thought while incorporating 3D printing in their artwork. They launched the Blueberries brand in 2012 and they have been producing exquisite jewels and accessories ever since.
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Meet the designer: Elise Luttik
Meet Industrial Designer Elise Luttik from Amsterdam, founder of eli5e, a design studio specialized in 3D printed designs that will make you smile.
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Charmr: Make one-of-kind jewelry personalized with your own photo
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Autodesk 123D is ready to help you combine 3D design, printing technology, and creativity to create a gift right from the heart. They have come up with a brand new tool that lets you personalize one-of-a-kind jewelry with your own photo: Project Charmr!
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