The i.materialise Jewelry Design Challenge
Today we have an exciting Design Challenge for jewelry designers. We’re reaching out to you in order to find jewelry design talent. We’re looking for new concepts, techniques and ideas in jewelry design.
We want this challenge to help us discover you so that we can then encourage and promote you and your work.
3D printed jewelry is very new and affords designers with an immense freedom to design. But, very few pieces have really managed to elevate 3D printing pieces to the level of high end jewelry. Can you do this?
Can you design a jewelry piece that elevates 3D printed jewelry? Can you make something that is beautiful, practical and above all “works” as a 3D printed jewel?
What you can win
Ten winners will be selected and their pieces will be offered for sale in the .MGX Store in Sablon Brussels. The jewelry design will always remain your property and you will receive a 5% royalty on every sold item. Due to questions below in the comments we have updated the royal
.MGX at Salone: new lamps by Batsheba, Xavier Lust and Wertell Oberfell Platform
Our colleagues from .MGX attended Salone. They were at Euroluce and introduced 4 new 3D printed lamps. 2 lamps, the Quinn & the Gamete, were new versions of designs already in the .MGX collection. The two other lamps are completely new.
First off we have the dodecahedron, Quinn floor lamp by 3D printing pioneer Bathsheba Grossman.
“Tree seeds blowing in the wind” was the inspiration for Xavier Lust”s Gamete lamp.
The Diatom by Wertel Oberfell Platform.
And a last surprise addition, the otherworldly Algue lamp by Xavier Lust. “Algue, an ornamental lamp, seems to ondulate following the streams and moving fluids that surround us… Algue is a lit evocation of the abyssal deapth of the oceans.”
David Friedman”s Inventor Portraits
David Friedman”s Inventor Portraits are an intimate and engaging look at inventors. In the series of photographs and videos of inventor”s telling their own story. They show and explain their inventions ranging from the convertible pizza box to the digital camera. This is by far the most fun and inspiring thing I”ve seen in a while.
Steven Sasson is the inventor of the digital camera and this was the one I saw over on SwissMiss. I didn”t know that Mr. Sasson had invented the digital camera and liked his congenial explanation of the process behind it and how the first digital camera worked (tape!).
I loved listening to Brent Farley explain his madcap ideas while I ogled his off the wall interior. Watch as he explains how marketing is his weakness.
Inventor Portrait: Brent Farley from David Friedman on Vimeo.
William Walsh, developed a pizza box that splits up into plates. “I bought 50 or 100 pizza boxes — the guy thought I was out of my mind — and an exacto knife, and a
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
i.materialise Student Discount
UPDATE: This post is from 2011. Click here for the latest promo code for students!
Last year we noticed a spike in orders in April through July from design and engineering students worldwide who 3D printed concept cars, architectural models, functional models of prototypes and all sorts of other things with us. We really liked working on those projects (despite all the last minute stresses some of you had) and would like to encourage more students to 3D print with us.
If you’re a student at a College or University and want to use 3D printing for a school related project we”re giving you a 20% discount if you 3D print with us. We”re especially interested in Design Academy Students (Eindhoven, Finland etc.) & Engineering and product design graduates. But, feel free to wow us with any work from any discipline.
Rules
- You have to be enrolled at a College, University or Technical school
- You must contact us using a .edu or other university/school email adress to verify th
Patrick Jouin wins a Red Dot Award for his MGX.Bloom lamp
Very loud cheers and congratulations to our colleagues over at .MGX and designer Patrick Jouin. Patrick Jouin has just won a Red Dot Award for his .MGX.Bloom lamp in the category outstanding product design!
The Bloom table lamp is inspired by nature. As many flowers do the Bloom can actually bloom by opening and closing. The entire lamp shade is 3D printed and the shade is produced in one piece and works straight out of the 3D printer. By letting the lamp bloom you can mechanically regulate the light that comes out of it. Opening and closing this lamp is addictive as you can see the hinges move and the entire body slot into itself. Its a wonderful lamp to look at but also a powerful example of the power of 3D printing. Its a huge honor for the lamp to be awarded with a RedDot and I”m sure all of our colleagues are happy not only for .MGX but also because Patrick Jouin”s beautiful design is 3D printed here at Materialise. The same 3D printers and the same high level of c
The Periodic Table of Materials
At the same time, we put a lot of effort into making detailed information pages about each material. This should help you find the material that best suits your needs as a designer or inventor.
So, we’ve described all the materials, made some sample pictures, collected information about coloring options, thought about the typical use of a certain material, and created videos about different 3D printing technologies. For steel and titanium we wrote design guides to get you on the right track. And we did even more, but we”d rather let you discover that for yourself.
Learning about mater
Improvements to customer service and feedback
Hi all I”m Karen,
I”m in charge of making sure that we help you in any way we can in getting your idea 3D printed. Together with the launch of the new website we have also improved our support pages. We hope that this lets us capture more feedback, ideas and suggestions from you and that we can translate this into better service. Our aim is to give you the best customer service possible while making it easier and easier for you to 3D print.
 We also want to share knowledge so you can post your questions, idea, problem,…here using Get Satisfaction.
Off course we understand that in sometimes you want personal advice in this case, you can ask it privately using Get Satisfaction or email us. If you have a question about a file or would like our help in fixing files you can email contact (at) i.materialise.com. In most cases we can fix your files and get them ready to 3D print. Do first try to upload your file though our algorithms can fix a lot automatically!
We w
Fluid Forms & i.materialise partnership announced
We”re pleased to announce our partnership with Fluid Forms. Fluid Forms is an Austrian team of designers that have been working on creative design tools since 2005. Their tools are fun ways that let you customize and individualize your own designs. Using Fluid Forms you can for example virtually box your own lamp design or get your own personalized wall clock based on an overhead view of streets of your choice.
We”re very happy to be able to work with such an experienced design team. Fluid Forms makes personalization not only easy but also fun. With their creative and enganging online tools and our 3D printing expertise we hope to be able to offer you many great personalized products in the future. For us this is yet another important step in seeking out the best design talent we can and working with them to help them create and promote their work.
We will be handling the production of three great Fluid Forms designs the Silver Earth Cufflinks, the Silver Earth Pin and t
