Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s almost weekend, so that means it’s time for our Featured Friday! Check out the latest entries.
Designer Armand Graham created this beautiful bracelet in gold plated brass:
Marc Fournier designed this great ring in silver:
And last but not least: Software companie Uformia, which we wrote a previous blog about, created this ceramics cup by using 3D face scan data of a real Norwegian Viking.
Enjoy your weekend!
Don’t forget to put your designs in the gallery.
Business cards 2.0: Watch out for the 3D printed super heroes!
How many of your received business cards did you lose in your life? Too many probably. Creative agency ‘resoluut‘ came up with a solution: they replaced their 2D cards by 3D printed avatar statues: Super heroes to the rescue!
Micha Commeren: “We started creating business cards with superheroes, but we absolutely wanted to test 3D printing to stay up to date with this revolutionary technolgy. Each team member has its own personal superheroe, like the incredibles. Mine for example, is an action figure with two babies, because I’m a proud parent of two. But you can also see a space helmet; I keep the overview in the office (= earth). ”
“3Dwergen, a company specialized in 3D printed gifts, printed all the figures in multicolor. Now people are sending us pictures of the statues on the weirdest places: Mission accomplished!”
Share us your personal 3D printed story: tatiana.dewee@materialise.be
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday! Check out the latest gallery items.
Printcraft, an online world that lets Minecraft players convert their Minecraft creations into 3D printable files, printed this nice pendant in silver.
Next design is a a 1900’s door latch created by Ben Jane in prime gray: “I designed it for my house since we’re missing the original one. I sculpted the design to be similar to the orginals but then added custom text.”
Our last design is a Daisy ring created by Tweetonig in gold plated and polished brass. Who hasn’t made one when they were young? It was used to play husband and wife with an anonymus daisy ring as a symbol for their love. The ring has one open side and can therefor be used as different sizes.
Do you want your design to be featured on our website? Then don’t forget to put your design in the gallery or on our forum. Hace fun designing!
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D prints
Happy Friday everyone! Check out our latest gallery entries.
Paul Marx customized the bust of Richelieu with a 3D scan of his fathers face. He created the design in natural white polyamide.
This beautiful vase is 3D printed in ceramics by Printopi. The design is inspired by Gustav Adamis in the early 1980s and printed in ocean turquoise.
We love 3D printing because it creates a perfect environment for makers, just like Jan Dewever. He created cufflinks for his son and personalized it by adding the letters of his name. Dewever: “Since this was my first 3D printing experiment I printed them in polyamide with a blue dye finish. For me the test was so succesful that I will also have them printed in high detailed stainless steel for sure.
Don’t forget to put you’re own design in the gallery, maybe you will be the next one featured on the blog?
Or do you have a story you want to share related to your 3D print? contact tatiana.dewee@materialise.be
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Roberto Trentin gather the most votes in the last Valentine’s challenge. His ‘hearts embraced’ ring was printed in high detailed stainless steel. Roberto: “This ring represents the embrace of two hearts with a hidden message, a declaration of love in Italian: “ti amo”, immersed in the decoration as a sort of secret statement.”
‘Diamonds are Forever’ is an eclectic mix of multiple abstract gems and a classical solitaire, confined in silver mineral formations. A beautiful ring in high gloss silver by Isaie Bloch, the second winner of the Valentine’s challenge.
And last but not least, Pinar Timur printed a case and a case back of a watch in stainless steel and the bezel in titanium. The watch has a automatic winding Swiss movement, is waterproof, and has a functioning rotating bezel. The dial was made by acid etching and painted with glow in the dark luminous
Intellectual Property and 3D printing
It’s great and exciting to see so many ideas coming alive at i.materialise and to notice more and more people find their way to our online service. To help people in the design process, we want to highlight the issue of Intellectual Property.
Intellectual Property?
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are granted. The principal categories of IP are patents, trademarks, and copyrights. With respect to 3D printing, there are many interesting and unsettled questions about how current IP laws will be applied to this developing technology.
i.materialise strives to respect the IP rights of all third parties, like you. This is still new territory for everyone and because many of the most interesting legal questions have yet to be answered, we want to caution designers to think about IP when creating and uploading new designs.
We wish you a good time designing, creating and amazing us (like you do every day).
monomer starts 3D printed earring collection
The German based design brand monomer just started to 3D print their own earring collection in metal.
First they launched their metal ring collection, now it’s time to introduce to you to their matching earrings. They were printed in silver and (gold plated) brass, but any material is possible, really. They can even add a Swarovski stone in the middle, if people ask for it.
Meiko Hecker, monomer: ” The earrings complete our collection. If you take a good look, you can see each designs has two names: all the names are from Greek mythology. The first name stands for the volume and size of the design, the second refers to the surface and the structure. So if you want to match both earrings and ring, you just have to look at the second name.”
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Gavin Galligan made a brooch consisting of a silver (high gloss) pin and a natural white polyamide part. He made a re-interpretation of the Tara Brooch, a Celtic brooch that’s considered as one of the most inventive one of all the Irish brooches. Galligan: “This interpretation takes its place in current history using modern processes, making it unique of its kind. Each brooch is constructed from your choice of polyamide with a polished silver pin to securely fasten the brooch to your clothing.”
Michael Mueller made another great creation in brass called ‘Gready Fish Pendant‘. He removed the gold layer so it looks more rough.
Don’t hesitate to put your own designs in the gallery to be featured on the blog.
Flexible 3D Printed Fashion Hits the Catwalk with Iris van Herpen, Julia Koerner and Materialise
Recently, on the catwalks of the Spring Fashion Week 2013 in Paris, 3D printing was again a major highlight in Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture show, ‘VOLTAGE’. Collaborating with 2 pioneers of the 3D printing industry, the Dutch designer presented never-before-seen 3D printed Haute Couture. Van Herpen is without any doubt the leading lady of Haute Couture and 3D printed fashion.
COLLABORATION
Dutch designer Iris van Herpen’s eleven-piece collection featured two 3D printed ensembles, including an elaborate skirt and cape created in collaboration with artist, architect, designer and professor Neri Oxman from MIT’s Media Lab, and 3D printed by Stratasys. An intricate dress was also designed in collaboration with Austrian architect Julia Koerner, currently lecturer at UCLA Los Angeles, and 3D printed by Materialise, marking the second piece created together with Koerner and the ninth with Materialise .
A MATTER OF TIME
“I feel it’s important that fashion can be about much more
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy our featured designs.
Peter Donders made a lovely ring called Cloud10 in high gloss silver.
The second design is made by design studio 3D Materialize Ltd. It’s a bowl 3D printed in multicolor. “The essence of a relationship between men and women was a source of inspiration for our ‘Bowl Couple’. Both sides are in equal position and rely on each other like in a real relationship.”
Guido Mandorf made some more train parts in Prime Gray and painted them beautifully afterwards.
Finally, Rob Hocking made a lightning bolt shaped Quaternion Julia set in gold plated brass.
We hope you have an awesome weekend!
Don’t hesitate to put your own designs in the gallery. Maybe your design will be featured the next time?
