Columbia GSAPP 3D printed designs Watercolor
Alistair Gill and Veronika Schmid held a Saturated Models seminar at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. During the seminar the Master’s students explored 3D printing and created 3D printed objects. i.materialise made the resulting 3D prints. This is the second interview with a team of participating architecture students. The first one is here.
1. Who are you? We are Kasey Josephs and Kurt Rodrigo both originally from the Western United States, hailing from Arizona and California, respectively. We are recent graduates of Columbia University”s Master of Advanced Architectural Design program and are passionate about architecture, music, and cake.Â
2. What is Watercolor? Watercolor as a medium blends color to blur the boundary between hues and tones. The Watercolor Wall is a prototype for a wall paneling system that uses this similar technique to create dynamic space around the wall. The relationship between the user and the wal
3D printing vs mass production: Part II Manufacturing Complexity and Marketing Promise
This is the second post in a series covering 3D printing versus mass production. You can find the first here. The other parts are: The Power of Unique, Everything you own Sucks and Wish Fulfillment. This post deals with the increase in manufacturing complexity that accompanies mass produced products. Mass production is in my opinion gradually undermining its own strengths by focusing not on increased utility for consumers but rather on things such as increased complexity. At the same time unrealistic and product unrelated promises by marketing create a gap between what products deliver and what they promise.
II. Manufacturing Complexity and Marketing Promise
The increase in the complexity of the cheap consumer products we can buy today is staggering. I can now buy a 12 megapixel camera with12. a 3 inch LCD and 3X digital zoom for $99. If you read this post in a few months the same camera model will have 14 or 20 megapixel. I can remember how limited and expensive the f
Columbia GSAPP Saturated Models 3D printed: Corset
Alistair Gill and Veronika Schmid held a Saturated Models seminar at Columbia”s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. During the seminar the Master”s students explored 3D printing and created 3D printed objects. i.materialise supported the project and we were amazed and impressed with the results. To showcase them we will be doing a series of interviews with the participating architects starting with the Corset team. Â
1. What is Corset?
We produced an object. This object doesn’t consist of its material aspects but of relationships between the atmosphere, between the infinite number of possible qualities / properties / situations that can be attached to it. We produced a corset. Our corset enters into a machinic assemblage with the human body. It extends therefore beyond any earlier distinction between the mechanical and the organic and includes both domains. There is a dual relation between the body and the object. The body forms and deforms and
i.materialise at TEDxKids 3D printing for ten year olds
On June 1st i.materialise participated at TedxKids Brussels. This event brought together people as diverse as Walter Bender (of Sugar Labs), Maarten Lens Fitzgerald (the Founder of Layar), Mark Frauenfelder (Editor of Make Magazine and Boing Boing), Mark Surman (of the Mozilla Foudation), Gever Tully (of the impecably awesome Tinkering School), the great team of Technology Will Save Us and more inspiring and wonderful people. Also in the mix were Franky and I on behalf of i.materialise. One part of the day was to give a TED style presentation to a group of 450 adults. Â
The “TED style presentation” was daunting enough. I mean you”re standing on the same red dot as that mind blowing guy with the windmills. At the same time it does not help that all the other speakers have clearly done this kind of thing before and that everything is being recorded and simulcast. All I wanted was one crappy speaker so that I”d look good. Alas, the presentations were all informative
Fried wins RTAM/SME Industry Achievement Award
We”re very proud to announce that Materialise CEO Fried Vancrean has just been awarded the Rapid Technologies & Additive Manufacturing/Society of Manufacturing Engineers Industry  Achievement award. We”re pleased that it not only recognizes Frieds pioneering work at Materialise over the past 20 years but also his work for the entire industry. We”re also pleased that as well as Fried”s involvement with i.materialise was one of the specific reasons he was commended.  This is amazing considering “Fried also pioneered several major applications in the AM sector including stereolithographic medical models, colored stereolithographic medical models, perforated support structures, RapidFit Fixtures, surgical guides for oral and orthopaedic surgeons, and automated hearing aid design” as well as work in 3D printing software.
Above is one of the very first articles about Fried Vancraen after starting Materialise, it appeared in the October 1990 “Industrie, Magazine voor Pr
Interview with Viridis3D President Will Shambley
Will Shambley is a true 3D printing pioneer. He spent eight years directing the 3D printing materials Research and Development effort at Zcorp, the full color 3D printing company. He is now at Viridis3D, a company that sells 3D printers and 3D printing materials used for casting metal and ceramics. He is Viridis3D’s CEO & President. We interviewed Will in order to find out more about Viridis3D and his significant expertise in the 3D printing industry.
Joris Peels: What is Viridis3D?
Will Shambley: Viridis3D, at it’s heart, is a materials development company that focuses on commercializing new solutions for the additive manufacturing community. Our current primary focus is on making molds for metal casting, however we are dabbling in a range of refractory / ceramic applications. We are developing products that we believe have unmet market demand, and we actively solicit projects from universities or individuals who have something unique to bring to market.
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Meet the i.materialise Team: Volodymyr
Greetings,
My name is Vlad, and I’m that guy who is always replying on your e-mails something like “I have just checked your 3D model and…” :).
I really love to check your 3D models – each of them is really different and amazing. Each one requires unique approach that has to be applied in order to make it printable and to have a nice final look. I love this challenge and see it as a competition for me to win, for you.
I’ve been working in Customer Support for five years and when I saw that i.materialse was searching for a new employee that will be working with 3D models, designers and 3D printers– I was so impressed with that job and I was ready to start the next day! My first working day started in the Belgian Materialise Headquarters in the general planning department where I saw how projects were handled. Later on I was shown the production facility, got to speak with the production guys and did some finishing work together with them. That was a really fun and interestin
C3A, Océ and i.materialise Architect@Work architecture competition
C3A, Océ and i.materialise are organising a 3D and 2D printing contest for Architect@Work. This contest is for Belgian architects.  C3A is a company specialising in software, hardware and training for architects and engineers in the construction industry.  Océ is a € 2,6 billion revenue part of the Canon group that specialises in large format and professional imaging and 2D printing. Together we will be doing a contest that ends at the end of this month. You can submit your entry at C3A Net. There will be 2 categories in the contest 1. A large format 2D print of a AutoCAD, Revit or Sketchup project. 2. a 3D print of a Sketchup project. We will select 3 entries per category and then the visitors to Architect@Work that is taking place in Kortrijk Xpo on May 5th and 6th will be able to vote to decide who the winners are. The 6 entrants designs will be 2D printed on a size of A1 and displayed on the stands of C3A and Océ. The winners can win €600, €500 and €300 in
Be Your Own Souvenir with 3D printing
Be Your own Souvenir was a project that ran in Barcelona in the beginning of this year. Using open source software the project let people pose in front of a Kinect set up and the resulting shape was 3D printed by a RapMan 3D printer. The project aimed to turn consumers into producers and give people the experience of creating their own souvenirs. The installation was on the Rambla and the “project mimics the informal artistic context of this popular street, human sculptures and craftsmen, bringing diverse realities and enabling greater empathy between the agents that cohabit in the public space.” The installation was the work of BlaBlabLAB.
Be Your Own Souvenir! from blablabLAB on Vimeo.
Via Truthisaconcept.
Opening the Pandora’s Box that is 3D Printing
Its great to see that the world is catching on the the potential of 3D printing. It is a transformational technology that will speed up innovation & democratize technology. It has the potential to make almost every single product in our world better either by speeding up product & development or by producing things that fit tasks better. You will be able to make what you want exactly as you want it to be. We will be able to personalize, customize and design our world. Implants, medical instruments and replacement parts of our bodies will be created.
Products will be improved literally, continually, globally by loose networks of people collaborating at speeds we can scarcely imagine. By combining the connectivity of the internet and its creative force with decentralized production the variety of things optimized for a certain task will explode. Every niche will be filled, layer by layer. Not only will innovation be democratized it will be near instantaneous. As soon as an idea ha
