Creating Unique Design Solutions with 3D Printing: This Modern Design Studio Uses 3D Prints to Enhance Its Workflow
3D printing has opened up more possibilities for design studios. Exploring new materials, creating new forms and shapes, designing highly-detailed prototypes: there are many advantages for designers by using 3D printing. We visited one of our clients, Slovenian design studio Gorjup Design, to see how 3D printing is changing their everyday work.
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3D Printing For The Royal Theatre of Madrid: Tomasz Dabert’s Modern Armor
To keep old stories fresh, theaters try to combine both classical and modern elements into their plays and stage sceneries. It thus only seems logical that the Royal Theatre of Madrid would search for new ways to create and enhance their costumes. But what would you create if you were asked to build a set of modern 3D-printed armor for an opera? Especially as your very first 3D print ever? (more…)
3D Printing in 5 Different Silver Options: Introducing Our New Antique Silver Finish
Fantastic news for jewelry designers and metal-printing enthusiasts: After just launching 18K gold last month, we are already expanding our metal options, this time with the new Antique Silver Finish! This means that you can now order a 3D print of your item in five different silver finishes. Read on to see some examples and learn about each type. (more…)
Turning a Smart Idea into 3D-Printed Reality: A Simple Keychain That Makes Life Easier
Barney Mason, a product designer from the UK, is changing the world one step at a time. He started creating keychains to expand his knowledge of 3D modeling and 3D printing processes and soon found a simple, yet efficient, way to design smarter keychains. (more…)
10 Examples of How 3D Printing Is Changing Consumer Products
Everybody’s talking about 3D printing: 3D printed implants, 3D printed cars, 3D printed houses. While the media likes to focus on big projects, a large part of this new industrial revolution is happening in small design studios, backyard sheds, and start-ups by makers, designers, and other creative minds. In this post, we show you some examples of how 3D printing is changing our everyday consumer products. (more…)
Photo to 3D: How to Turn a Single Photo into a 3D Model & 3D Print
Are objects from photos 3D printable? Recently, a new app made quite a stir: Smoothie-3D promised to provide an easy modeling tool that gets you from a single photo to a printable 3D model. Now we put the app to the test: we converted a photo to a 3D model and printed it! (more…)
How 3D Printing Allows For Customization of Products: Meet Martijn Joris, Co-Founder of Belgian Start-up Twikit
Martijn Joris has a passion for 3D creation and making. He co-founded Twikit in 2012, a Belgian start-up that builds easy creation tools, allowing consumers to create unique products and bring them to life with 3D printing. Twikit is pioneering a new way of using digital production technologies in the creation of customized products.
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Making 3D Printing More Flexible: New Color Option for Rubber-Like Material
Printing in flexible rubber-like material just got better: now in addition to our existing dyed black option, you can order your 3D print in natural white here at i.materialise! Read on to take a closer look at these color options and see what kind of objects can be created with this amazing material. (more…)
A 3D Printed Dress That Uses Robotic Arms To Defend Itself: Anouk Wipprecht’s Spider Dress
Known for fusing wearables and the latest technology, Anouk Wipprecht is no stranger to the fashion tech field. Her latest creation, the Spider Dress 2.0 is equipped with an Intel Edison chip that reads biosignals to defend the wearer’s personal space. Anouk used Materialise’s Magics software to create a watertight file so that the beautiful, complex design could be 3D printed flawlessly. And the result is amazing. (more…)
How 3D Printing is Changing Architecture: Learning from the Sagrada Familia Team in Barcelona
The world-famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona has been using 3D printing since 2001 to continue the work of the great designer Antoni Gaudí. This modernist architect was not able to finish the work during his life, so the Sagrada Familia consortium has to design much of the cathedral themselves. With the assistance of 3D printing, Gaudí’s glorious magnum opus is well on its way to completion. (more…)
