Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! Check out our gallery picks!
‘Ultimate love’, the mother and child ring, designed by Mark Heuvelman in sandblasted silver. Heuvelman: “It represents a mother’s ultimate love for her child. This piece was inspired by all the mothers out there and is a perfect gift to show her gratitude.”
Daniel Chapelle created a very cute animal for his desk. He 3D printed it in ocean turquoise ceramics.
Designer Victoria Collins designed a sweet 20 mm stainless steel (old silver), woodlouse pendant:
Don’t forget to put your own designs in the gallery!
First 3d printing gallery in Amsterdam
Amsterdam is getting ready for the first 3D printing exposition ever. The initiative comes from a bunch of creative entrepreneurs with a passion for 3D printing.
Do you want to find out more about the mystic world of 3D printing? Then don’t miss this exposition in Amsterdam. From the 6th of April until the 2nd of June you can enjoy the exposition ‘XYZ Shaping Free Dimensions’ which will showcase designs from i.materialise community members Ilse Vermeulen and Eric van Straaten among others like 3D printing artist Nick Ervinck who 3D printed his collection at Materialise and Joshua Harker, famous from his Kickstarter project. With this project Ground3D wants to introduce everyone in the 3D printing Maker movement.
Our nice colleagues from .MGX added designs from the exclusive .MGX collection to show to the public, so get ready to discover high level 3D printed interior creations from top designers Xander Lust, Jiri Evenhuis, Janne Kyttanen, Bathsheba Grossman, Patrick Jo
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s our favorite day of the week again: Friday! Check out our latest gallery entries.
Chris Peters designed a custom wedding band in titanium:
Matthias Flück made a copy of Sydney’s famous Harbour Bridge in multicolor (scale 1:2500) and is currently working on a copy of the Opera House.
The last design is also a ring. This one is created in silver by Edouard Gautier and inspired by the -very cool- street artist ArtofPopof.
Don’t forget to put your designs in the gallery for Mother’s Day. Enjoy your weekend!
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy Friday everyone! Watch our newest gallery entries.
James William Kincaid III designed this cool belt buckle in gold plated brass:
The second design is created by Visa Jaamuru in natural white polyamide. It’s a phone stand for the Nokia Lumia 920: “I think it’s a stylish design coupled with added functionality. The phone can sit nicely in both portrait and landscape orientations. In portrait orientation the sound from the phone speakers is amplified by built in design. That makes it perfect for skyping, watching videos or simply browsing the internet on your Nokia Lumia 920.”
marco ferrarin has got something with spaghetti. He designed these nice earrings for real pasta lovers and 3D printed it in gold plated brass.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s almost weekend, so that means it’s time for our Featured Friday! Check out the latest entries.
Designer Armand Graham created this beautiful bracelet in gold plated brass:
Marc Fournier designed this great ring in silver:
And last but not least: Software companie Uformia, which we wrote a previous blog about, created this ceramics cup by using 3D face scan data of a real Norwegian Viking.
Enjoy your weekend!
Don’t forget to put your designs in the gallery.
Business cards 2.0: Watch out for the 3D printed super heroes!
How many of your received business cards did you lose in your life? Too many probably. Creative agency ‘resoluut‘ came up with a solution: they replaced their 2D cards by 3D printed avatar statues: Super heroes to the rescue!
Micha Commeren: “We started creating business cards with superheroes, but we absolutely wanted to test 3D printing to stay up to date with this revolutionary technolgy. Each team member has its own personal superheroe, like the incredibles. Mine for example, is an action figure with two babies, because I’m a proud parent of two. But you can also see a space helmet; I keep the overview in the office (= earth). ”
“3Dwergen, a company specialized in 3D printed gifts, printed all the figures in multicolor. Now people are sending us pictures of the statues on the weirdest places: Mission accomplished!”
Share us your personal 3D printed story: tatiana.dewee@materialise.be
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday! Check out the latest gallery items.
Printcraft, an online world that lets Minecraft players convert their Minecraft creations into 3D printable files, printed this nice pendant in silver.
Next design is a a 1900’s door latch created by Ben Jane in prime gray: “I designed it for my house since we’re missing the original one. I sculpted the design to be similar to the orginals but then added custom text.”
Our last design is a Daisy ring created by Tweetonig in gold plated and polished brass. Who hasn’t made one when they were young? It was used to play husband and wife with an anonymus daisy ring as a symbol for their love. The ring has one open side and can therefor be used as different sizes.
Do you want your design to be featured on our website? Then don’t forget to put your design in the gallery or on our forum. Hace fun designing!
Opening a bottle has never been so cool!
Can’t find the right (fancy and shiny) bottle opener you’re looking for? Then just design one yourself and 3D print it like Andrew Martin.
Andrew sure knows how to intrigue his invitees. He created an eagle head bottle opener and 3D printed it in naturalpolished bronze. Andrew: “I’m so happy with the bronze material, it actually gleams like gold.”
Andrew was even so happy, he made a little YouTube movie about his design:
Do you want to know more about bronze? Read our last Material Monday or go to the material page.
Do you want your design to be featured on the blog? Send an e-mail to tatiana.dewee@materialise.be or show your design on our forum.
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D prints
Happy Friday everyone! Check out our latest gallery entries.
Paul Marx customized the bust of Richelieu with a 3D scan of his fathers face. He created the design in natural white polyamide.
This beautiful vase is 3D printed in ceramics by Printopi. The design is inspired by Gustav Adamis in the early 1980s and printed in ocean turquoise.
We love 3D printing because it creates a perfect environment for makers, just like Jan Dewever. He created cufflinks for his son and personalized it by adding the letters of his name. Dewever: “Since this was my first 3D printing experiment I printed them in polyamide with a blue dye finish. For me the test was so succesful that I will also have them printed in high detailed stainless steel for sure.
Don’t forget to put you’re own design in the gallery, maybe you will be the next one featured on the blog?
Or do you have a story you want to share related to your 3D print? contact tatiana.dewee@materialise.be
Meet the (train) designer: Ed de Bruijn
There are so many beautiful scaled train and tram models in our gallery that we couldn’t wait any longer to put them on the blog. Meet one of the specialists: Ed de Bruijn.
Where did you grow up?
« I grew up near and in Haarlem, the Netherlands. I had a relaxed childhood being the youngest of 5 children. In 1986 I met my wife and we got married in 1994. In 1999 we moved to Bussum, where we still live. We have two kids, Ewout (16) and Rozemarijn (12).»
What do you do in your everyday life?
« I used to be an Interim Manager, but unfortunately the crisis hit hard so I tried to find a new way of living. I’ve been building train models for many years and people were always very enthusiastic about my design skills. They asked me so many times to build them a model too, but there was a big problem: I used to build in metal (brass) and the number of hours to get the result was too big. The price of the model would become enormous so luckily I heard about 3D printing! Now I can order th
