3D printing the top 3 of the bead design challenge
About 2 weeks ago we announced the winners of the Bead Design Challenge. The 3D printed results came in yesterday, looking all loveable, and shiny as hell! Congrats again to the winners: Eva Tucek, Francisco Galan Manzo and Luigi Vaghi. Your 3D printed designs are on their way!
Pocket Rockets & Love Bombs by Eva Tucek:
Hoss Bunny Bead by Francisco Galan Manzo:
OX8 by Luigi Vaghi:
p.s. Don’t forget that the metal accessories challenge is still running, so don’t hesitate to submit your design.
Featured Friday – Showing your 3D printed designs
Nice designs made by you and 3D printed at the highest quality. Keep on amazing us!
Boxing Nature Ring by Mark Heuvelman.
3D printed in sterling silver
The Cable Car from the movie Where Eagles Dare in 1/72 scale by Sven-Åke Grufstedt.
3D printed in prime gray and beautifully painted! From what I’ve been told, probably the best 3D printing material out there for scale models.
A great connector piece for a wooden lamp stand by Benedikt Gnadt.
3D printed in polyamide
Meet the designer: Da Capo
Da Capo is a unique Dublin-based workshop providing bespoke commissioned jewelry, creative objects and limited editions. They also make use of 3D printing to create their final products and are featured on our blog today to tell their story and experiences. Let’s have a look at what they have to say… (more…)
Featured Friday – Showing your 3D printed designs
Here are a few of your nice designs to kick off the weekend!
PEPITA Collection by Dario Scapitta
3D printed in sterling silver
Seyo 001 (graffiti art) by Simon Potter
3D printed in polyamide
Virtual Florist Vitrine by Mario Minale
3D printed in polyamide
Garada 7, a replica of one of the most mystical and rare toys from Japan by Mike de Coninck
3D printed in paintable resin
Non Singular Knot – Math Art by Dizingof
3D printed in stainless steel
A very full caterpillar by Steve Patterson, winner of the Digital Tutors challenge
3D printed in multicolor
Presenting the Top 3 of the Bead Design Challenge
When we announced Metal Month at the beginning of June, we also included a wonderful design challenge where you had to design your own personalized bead in silver. It was the Bead Design Challenge. It became quite a popular challenge with a total of 27 entries from different designers around the world. As the challenge concluded on the 30th of June, our team got together to go through all the entries and choose our top 3 that will be 3D printed.
After some debating and vote counting the following three made it to the top.
Pocket Rockets & Love Bombs by Eva Tucek
Hoss Bunny Head by Francisco Galan Manzo
OX8 by Luigi Vaghi
We congratulate our winning three and thank everyone for participating. The top 3 will get their design 3D printed and send to them by the end of this month. And because we know all participants love their designs, they’ll all receive a discount of 15% (to be used on their design entry) sent to their email addresses shortly. This gives you the opportu
Featured Friday – Showing your 3D printed designs
Because we’re continuously seeing more and more nice designs being printed, we just have to feature them on our blog. A warm welcome to ‘Featured Friday’ where we’ll post some of your designs that caught our attention. A great start to get noticed, is to begin uploading your design(s) to the gallery with some nice photos. Enjoy the following designs and have a wonderful weekend!
Biomimicry shoe by Marieka Ratsma, in cooperation with Kostika Spaho
Photography Thomas van Schaik
3D printed in polyamide by i.materialise
Beautiful Japanese tea ring by Flavio Bellantuono
3D printed in sterling silver
Reflection by Cynthia Aldershof
3D printed in polyamide
Ohio Electric interurban freight trailer by Volkmar Meier3D printed in prime gray
Pirate Mouse and Dragon Treasure Wedding Cake Topper by Marty Hon
3D printed in polyamide
Aislin by Yarrid Henrard
3D printed in prime gray
Fiona gift box set by Mark Bloomfield
3D printed in polyami
3D Printing Toys & Figurines: Recreating Lost Action Figures
Today we have an intriguing blog post by special guest writer Mike de Coninck, a Belgian visual effects supervisor. He’s with us today to share the story of his long journey that ended up bringing his lifetime dream toy to life with the use of 3D printing. It’s a story that shows true dedication and an unquestionable passion for realizing a lifelong dream. (more…)
Imaginarium brings us Silver Indian Beauties
Mumbai based Imaginarium invites you to take a trip to the beauties of Indian culture in 3D printed silver. Today marks the beginning of a wonderful jewelry collection that’s brought to you by these talented creative minds. We start off today with three wonderfully detailed silver pendants that can be yours for the amazing price of 49,90 Euros and more lovely designs are to follow soon.
So if you’re into Indian history and culture, have a look at Imaginarium’s great gallery items. A preview can be seen below.
Do these lovely pendants inspire your creative mind? Do you also like to 3D print in silver? Then don’t hesitate to take a shot at creating some nice silver jewelry yourself by participating in our Silver Bead Design Challenge. The top 3 winners gets a free print of their designs!
Meet the designer: Eric van Straaten
Today we offer you an in-depth look into one of our favorite designers: Eric van Straaten. His multicolor magic has continuously pushed the technology to its limits and has attracted countless of enthusiastic crowds to admire it. Therefore it comes as no surprise that we were more than happy to receive such a deep look into the mind behind the artist. It is with great pleasure that we present you with Eric’s deepest thoughts, feelings and visions told in his own words.
I don’t really think you need much of an introduction anymore as you ‘ve made quite a name for yourself at i.materialise, but what we would like to know is a bit about your background. Tell us a bit about the boy that became the man…
I was born in 1969 in the Dutch city of Leiden and grew up in Haarlem. From the age of about 17 I have always wanted to be an ‘artist’, and after a career that we call in Dutch ’12 trades, 13 accidents’ (more or less successful photographer, musician, actor, journalist, entrepren
Materialising Minecraft Dreams
Today we would like to highlight the work of one of our dear colleagues at Materialise called Sander. He’s a fan of Minecraft and happens to work at a 3D printing company so the following was obviously going to happen someday… With help of a software solution called Mineways, Sander was able to create a bridge between his creations in Minecraft and our 3D printers. The results and Sander’s story can be seen below.
Tell us a bit about yourself. Who is Sander?
I’m a software engineer working for Materialise. In my free time I’m involved in several music activities and I spend quite some time behind my PC programming and playing games.
How did you discover 3D printing?
My current employment brought me into contact with 3D printing. I was not exposed to it before then.
What brought you to Minecraft and which realms do you command in there?
It is kind of strange but my cynicism brought me to Minecraft. When I heard about it first I didn’t believe such a simpl
