Featured Friday: Showing your 3D Printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
The first design we want to show you is made by Rick Fichthorn. It’s based on the Egyptian winged scarab. This little creature was associated with the generative forces of the rising sun and with the concepts of eternal renewal and spontaneous creation. The scarab is flanked by the wings of a falcon representing earth and the power of the sun. It’s printed in silver and finished in high gloss.
Have you seen the second design? The LOVE cube is made by Ulrich Schwanitz in multicolor. This three-dimensional object was inspired by the world-famous sculpture from the American Pop-Artist Robert Indiana. The object is slightly more than 15x15x15 cm in size and seems to be hovering in free space. The actual model is only half a cube and mounted on a mirror.
Last but not least: a pendant made by SILBERNEUN. This navette is constructed of many
Stunning 3D Printed Bioscope
Once more, designers are pushing the boundaries of photography, film and 3D printing technology. Simon de Bakker and Jon Stam designed their ‘Bioscope‘ during the V2_ SummerSessions and 3D printed it at i.materialise: a digital movie viewer in the shape of a Fisherprice camera. (more…)
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
We have another shiny week ahead! Dizingof made a new dice: the D6 Sliced Dice (one of the 300 he already designed!) for dice collectors and gamers worldwide. The design is created in goldplated and polished brass.
The next entry is a design made by Flavio Bellantuono: the Lotus Ring. It’s a really nice jewel to wear. The ring is white and rose gold plated with a small yellow sapphire on the top. The petals are completely movable.
Last but not least: Kevin Wei, an experimental designer from New York, keeps surprising us with his original designs. One of his latest entries, Basalt 114 Double Ring, is inspired by the columnar structures of Namibia, Turkey, and Brazil, where fractured, faceted plates have formed through the rapid cooling of basaltic lava. The ring is finished in gold-plated brass.
Well that was it for this
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
This week we have a very shiny Featured Friday! The first 3D printed design we want to show you is this Lovely Whistle, created by Michael Muller. According to him you can use the whistle to command people you like and because there is a heart in the whistle they won’t be annoyed by you. The whistle is created in gold plated brass. Can’t wait to see more of this German designer!
EYE CATCHER
The second design is from Dizingof and called Infinity because the form has a continous flow. You can use this brass design as a penholder or as an eye catcher on your desk.
Last design is a very nice one as well. The Bellflower Earrings are a creation by Flavio Bellantuono and are silver plated.
Well that was it for this week, hope you have a good weekend!
PS: Don’t forget we’ve got a new challenge ‘Christmas Ornaments’ going on, find
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
RINGS
We had a tsunami of jewelry from Monomer, a great designer from Germany. We’d like you to show one his rings, the Aurora Minos, which is very light as it is made in titanium and then nicely polished. Discover his other rings in the gallery!
ITALY
The second design we’d like to show you is also a very nice piece of fine jewelry: the semeaureo mini! Made by Marco Ferrarin, one of our great designers from Italy who created this earrings. It matches perfectly with the pendant. Both are made in brass.
TRAINMODEL
Last but not least: we really love the trainmodels we see in our gallery and this is one of the latest entries from Jan Neider from Germany. He made some really good pictures of his painted prime gray trainmodel.
Well that was it for this week, hope you have a good weekend!
PS: Don’t forget we’ve got a new challenge
Meet the designer: Dario Scapitta
Growing up in a family full of designers, Dario Scapitta was destined to be a designer himself. Nowadays he’s experimenting with 3D printing and tries to find his way in the industry.
When did you start being interested in design?
<< Well, I was born in Valenza, the capital of the Italian jewellery business. Since I was young I heard about jewellery designers and goldsmiths, because my parents and my brother are all working in the jewellery business. So jewellery design is in my blood. Later on with my studies and my experiences I’ve learned how to become a designer myself. >>
How would you describe your style?
<< It is very difficult for me to describe my style, and probably it is also too early to talk about it. I’m always working on something that I like very much; I’m constantly inspired by nature, fashion, art, architecture and everything else that surrounds me. Every day I find new things or ideas to transform in a piece of jewellery. I like to be simple and original and
12 Yale students rebuild ancient Rome in gold for the Venice Biennale
Ancient Rome has always inspired people, but now 12 Yale Students and their professor have really surprised everyone with their project. They succeeded in making a 3D printed display, based on the 250 years old etchings of Piranesi, completely covered with gold leaves.
Amazed by 6 etchings of ancient Rome from mapmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi, twelve students of Yale and their professor decided to bring the project to life. It looked quite impossible in the beginning, but with the help of Materialise the students were able to create a maquette with the 250 year old etchings of Piranesi.
SHINE
The students first had to reinvent the etchings through three-dimensional digital modeling. Then the biggest printer, the Mammoth Stereolithography machine, printed the models. With its amazing size, measuring 1500 x 1300 x 90 mm, the project needed something extra to shine at the Biennale in Venice. So they came up with an idea: why not cover it with gold leaves? The art
3D printing mingles with the past in Belgium’s oldest town
The Gallo-Romeins Museum, one of the most important archaeological museums in Europe, is currently holding a solo exhibition of Nick Ervinck. He is a rising star in the Belgian art world and the talent behind some truly spectacular works of 3D printed art, printed at Materialise.
Last Friday night, I headed to Tongeren with Nick Ervinck’s project managers here at Materialise, and others on the prototyping and manufacturing team, to witness the opening of the exhibition. Although we had witnessed several of his works come off our printers over the years, there was something about seeing them set against archaeological relics that made the jaw-dropping creations more spectacular than ever. Here are some images from the exhibition and if you are in Belgium anytime before the 6th of January 2013, I highly recommend fitting in a visit to the Gallo-Romeins Museum to see The 9th Month yourself.
The exhibition, The 9th Month (De 9de Maand), includes several pieces 3D printed here at Mat
Featured Friday – Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
To start with we want to show you this Simplicated Lamp, made by Rendy Himawan who made some previous designs for i.materialise. It’s a very simple box form but if you take a closer look you see there is a circuit on it. When the lamp is turned on you can perfectly see all the lines. The whole design is made in white polyamide.
SUPERDOG
The second design is from Ilse Vermeulen, she made this figurine, The Indispensable, out of Multicolor Composite. It looks like a really nice superdog!
HAMSTER
Last but not least: this funny figurine Hamster is developed by Vicky Wong, a Computer Animation student. She made this for her senior thesis project.
Well, that was it for this week. Have a nice weekend!
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Another week has passed again and we’re happy to show you these new designs!
We are glad to see how your creative minds always come up with new, fun and cool designs. This week we’d like to show to you a very nice bracelet, designed by Buro Bruno, created in gold plated brass.
PEDAL
Next design is a fun pedal beat, made by Tofty, from the UK. He created a small pedal shaped tritium vial holding bead with large side cut-outs, designed to take two of the 2.5x10mm tritium vials.
FOX
Last but not least, this design (or better: piece of art) is from Ilse Vermeulen, a dutch designer. Her artwork, called van Dyck, is made in Multicolor Composite.
Well, that was Featured Friday for this week. I hope you have a lovely weekend and keep up the good work!
