Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Roberto Trentin gather the most votes in the last Valentine’s challenge. His ‘hearts embraced’ ring was printed in high detailed stainless steel. Roberto: “This ring represents the embrace of two hearts with a hidden message, a declaration of love in Italian: “ti amo”, immersed in the decoration as a sort of secret statement.”
‘Diamonds are Forever’ is an eclectic mix of multiple abstract gems and a classical solitaire, confined in silver mineral formations. A beautiful ring in high gloss silver by Isaie Bloch, the second winner of the Valentine’s challenge.
And last but not least, Pinar Timur printed a case and a case back of a watch in stainless steel and the bezel in titanium. The watch has a automatic winding Swiss movement, is waterproof, and has a functioning rotating bezel. The dial was made by acid etching and painted with glow in the dark luminous
monomer starts 3D printed earring collection
The German based design brand monomer just started to 3D print their own earring collection in metal.
First they launched their metal ring collection, now it’s time to introduce to you to their matching earrings. They were printed in silver and (gold plated) brass, but any material is possible, really. They can even add a Swarovski stone in the middle, if people ask for it.
Meiko Hecker, monomer: ” The earrings complete our collection. If you take a good look, you can see each designs has two names: all the names are from Greek mythology. The first name stands for the volume and size of the design, the second refers to the surface and the structure. So if you want to match both earrings and ring, you just have to look at the second name.”
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Gavin Galligan made a brooch consisting of a silver (high gloss) pin and a natural white polyamide part. He made a re-interpretation of the Tara Brooch, a Celtic brooch that’s considered as one of the most inventive one of all the Irish brooches. Galligan: “This interpretation takes its place in current history using modern processes, making it unique of its kind. Each brooch is constructed from your choice of polyamide with a polished silver pin to securely fasten the brooch to your clothing.”
Michael Mueller made another great creation in brass called ‘Gready Fish Pendant‘. He removed the gold layer so it looks more rough.
Don’t hesitate to put your own designs in the gallery to be featured on the blog.
Flexible 3D Printed Fashion Hits the Catwalk with Iris van Herpen, Julia Koerner and Materialise
Recently, on the catwalks of the Spring Fashion Week 2013 in Paris, 3D printing was again a major highlight in Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture show, ‘VOLTAGE’. Collaborating with 2 pioneers of the 3D printing industry, the Dutch designer presented never-before-seen 3D printed Haute Couture. Van Herpen is without any doubt the leading lady of Haute Couture and 3D printed fashion.
COLLABORATION
Dutch designer Iris van Herpen’s eleven-piece collection featured two 3D printed ensembles, including an elaborate skirt and cape created in collaboration with artist, architect, designer and professor Neri Oxman from MIT’s Media Lab, and 3D printed by Stratasys. An intricate dress was also designed in collaboration with Austrian architect Julia Koerner, currently lecturer at UCLA Los Angeles, and 3D printed by Materialise, marking the second piece created together with Koerner and the ninth with Materialise .
A MATTER OF TIME
“I feel it’s important that fashion can be about much more
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy our featured designs.
Peter Donders made a lovely ring called Cloud10 in high gloss silver.
The second design is made by design studio 3D Materialize Ltd. It’s a bowl 3D printed in multicolor. “The essence of a relationship between men and women was a source of inspiration for our ‘Bowl Couple’. Both sides are in equal position and rely on each other like in a real relationship.”
Guido Mandorf made some more train parts in Prime Gray and painted them beautifully afterwards.
Finally, Rob Hocking made a lightning bolt shaped Quaternion Julia set in gold plated brass.
We hope you have an awesome weekend!
Don’t hesitate to put your own designs in the gallery. Maybe your design will be featured the next time?
Valentine Story #3: Say it with 3D printed hearts
365 hearts for every day of the year, designer Marc van Megen sure has some love inside him.
We just loved the whole idea of the pendant and the ring from the first moment we saw it. The designer created it in gold plated brass for that special someone in your life. Just perfect for Valentine!
Van Megem: ” They symbolize the love you feel for someone, built up by the many little things you love the person for. The 365 hearts can also represent the 365 days in a year. Love and time merge in harmony in this meaningful design. You can wear eternal love, it has bonded mankind in beautiful ways.”
Tell us a bit about yourself? (Where did you grow up?)
Marc: «I was born in a little village, Blerick, situated in Limburg (The Netherlands), a district known for its friendliness and Burgundian lifestyle. I graduated at the Design Academy of Eindhoven.»
What do you do in your everyday life?
Marc: «I am an industrial designer and self-employed. My company is “Van Megen Product De
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday! Let’s go into the weekend with some wonderful new designs. Let’s hit it off with The Ring of The Monkey Pirate King.
Inspired by Pirates of the Carribean, Tintin, Monkey Island, and ancient Inca gold, Ben Dansie created this dazzling ring. 3D printed in silver (gloss finish) and hand finished with Liver of Sulphur for the dark patina.
Human White Matter Tracts
Prevue Medical presents the world’s first accurate model of the wiring of the human brain. It seems these structures have never been reproduced in 3D, until now. The model scale is 1:1 and shows various connections between parts of the brain. These connections are beneath the familiar gray matter, embedded in the white matter of the brain. The individual fibers are actually microscopic, so bundles of fibers are here represented by millimeter scale tracts.
Bogies for R Class Diesel
And last but not least, a nice work in progress from Richard from WA SN 3-1/2 Models. 3D p
3D printing a GoPro Scuba Mount
Described as the world’s most versatile camera, GoPro has sold over 3 million cameras over the past three years. It’s a camera that is quite unlike what you are used to. A GoPro is not meant to be handheld but to be mounted on surfboards, skateboards, helmets, bikes, and so on. And if the standard sold mounts are not your thing, you just design one and 3D print it. Just like Felipe De La Torre, a high school senior/scuba diver from Pacoima, California did.
“This was my first 3D printed design. I always found the technology really interesting… thought I’d give it a go. Honestly, it was a bit difficult for me to design this, considering I didn’t have much experience going into this. However I got ideas from similar mounts and figured I would make a derivative composed of multiple ideas. Luckily, it worked out in the end… the design was everything I thought it to be.” – Felipe De La Torre
Why a tool for his camera? Well… the real reason is that he just didn’t have the heart to dri
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
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Andreas Damhofer designed a framed painting-like sculpture in natural white polyamide.
Jason Goodman designed a vase in gloss black ceramics, but you can 3D print it in 8 other colors as well. Goodman: “the vase consists of eight perfect ellipses that form an open basketwork. Fill with fresh flowers (if you put a small glass container inside), art supplies or kitchen tools.”
Last but not least Prevue Medical 3D printed multicolor. This model shows the correlation between resting-state BOLD MRI time courses in one hemisphere of the human brain. Areas that are brighter red are more highly correlated with activity in the rest of the brain. Areas in blue tend to have more local and less global connectivity. Colors are visible inside folds and undercuts as well, giving a hint of just how complex the brain’s structure really is.
Have a nice weekend!
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Thank God it’s Friday. Check out our new gallery entries!
The first design is made by DAMN, two ladies who make damn good designs. This is a diamond shape accessory you can wear with your scarf. The design is printed in Stainless Steel gold plated and polished.
ORGANIC
3D Materialize Ltd made a nice pendant ‘Organic Mystery’ in brass.
Christopher Ouellette made a pendant, called ‘Deathly Hallow’. The name refers to the deathly hallow symbol that’s incorporated into the pyramid shaped pendant. He printed his design in Brass gold plated.
