Valentine Story #3: Say it with 3D printed hearts
365 hearts for every day of the year, designer Marc van Megen sure has some love inside him.
We just loved the whole idea of the pendant and the ring from the first moment we saw it. The designer created it in gold plated brass for that special someone in your life. Just perfect for Valentine!
Van Megem: ” They symbolize the love you feel for someone, built up by the many little things you love the person for. The 365 hearts can also represent the 365 days in a year. Love and time merge in harmony in this meaningful design. You can wear eternal love, it has bonded mankind in beautiful ways.”
Tell us a bit about yourself? (Where did you grow up?)
Marc: «I was born in a little village, Blerick, situated in Limburg (The Netherlands), a district known for its friendliness and Burgundian lifestyle. I graduated at the Design Academy of Eindhoven.»
What do you do in your everyday life?
Marc: «I am an industrial designer and self-employed. My company is “Van Megen Product De
Valentine story #2: How to propose with the help of 3D printing
Hywel Vaughan and his girlfriend Sarah had been together for just over three years. As his New Years resolution of 2012, he decided to ask her to marry him. Being an industrial designer though, Hywel figured he could do something much better than just buying a ring from a shop.
Hywel has been so nice to post photos and instructions of how to make the ring on Instructables. It includes everything from buying the gem stone to the actual proposal! In December of 2012, he surprised Sarah with a trip to Bruges in Belgium. Sarah had no idea they were going anywhere until Hywel came down the stairs with packed bags and directed her to the taxi waiting outside! A brief Eurostar trip later, the couple was in Bruges walking next to the canals in the moonlight. At a quiet spot next to the ‘lovers lake’, he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. She said yes, with the biggest smile he had ever known her to have.
“The finish on the ring was fantastic, and the accuracy of the product
Valentine story #1: Engaged with 3D printing
There’s nothing more romantic than an engagement story involving 3D printing. When we saw this story of Joris Donders in our mailbox; we had to share it with you!
«I’ve always been someone who tries to be creative in my own way and I couldn’t afford my proposal to be any less. I wanted to have something which would help us remind the moment every time we would look at it. A picture of course would have been too simple. At the same time I wanted something that could help me explain the question just in case that I was to nervous to say it myself. You never know how you’ll feel at such moments.»
«I didn’t exactly know what I was going to make, but then it hit me. As an engineer I knew about the 3D printing capabilities and someone pointed me towards i.materialise. I was expecting a lot of difficulties and a very high price but I couldn’t afford not to investigate. I had to know if it would be possible to design what I had in mind.»
JOKE
« Deep inside my own heart lied a questi
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday! Let’s go into the weekend with some wonderful new designs. Let’s hit it off with The Ring of The Monkey Pirate King.
Inspired by Pirates of the Carribean, Tintin, Monkey Island, and ancient Inca gold, Ben Dansie created this dazzling ring. 3D printed in silver (gloss finish) and hand finished with Liver of Sulphur for the dark patina.
Human White Matter Tracts
Prevue Medical presents the world’s first accurate model of the wiring of the human brain. It seems these structures have never been reproduced in 3D, until now. The model scale is 1:1 and shows various connections between parts of the brain. These connections are beneath the familiar gray matter, embedded in the white matter of the brain. The individual fibers are actually microscopic, so bundles of fibers are here represented by millimeter scale tracts.
Bogies for R Class Diesel
And last but not least, a nice work in progress from Richard from WA SN 3-1/2 Models. 3D p
3D printing a GoPro Scuba Mount
Described as the world’s most versatile camera, GoPro has sold over 3 million cameras over the past three years. It’s a camera that is quite unlike what you are used to. A GoPro is not meant to be handheld but to be mounted on surfboards, skateboards, helmets, bikes, and so on. And if the standard sold mounts are not your thing, you just design one and 3D print it. Just like Felipe De La Torre, a high school senior/scuba diver from Pacoima, California did.
“This was my first 3D printed design. I always found the technology really interesting… thought I’d give it a go. Honestly, it was a bit difficult for me to design this, considering I didn’t have much experience going into this. However I got ideas from similar mounts and figured I would make a derivative composed of multiple ideas. Luckily, it worked out in the end… the design was everything I thought it to be.” – Felipe De La Torre
Why a tool for his camera? Well… the real reason is that he just didn’t have the heart to dri
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! Check out our latest entries.
Andreas Damhofer designed a framed painting-like sculpture in natural white polyamide.
Jason Goodman designed a vase in gloss black ceramics, but you can 3D print it in 8 other colors as well. Goodman: “the vase consists of eight perfect ellipses that form an open basketwork. Fill with fresh flowers (if you put a small glass container inside), art supplies or kitchen tools.”
Last but not least Prevue Medical 3D printed multicolor. This model shows the correlation between resting-state BOLD MRI time courses in one hemisphere of the human brain. Areas that are brighter red are more highly correlated with activity in the rest of the brain. Areas in blue tend to have more local and less global connectivity. Colors are visible inside folds and undercuts as well, giving a hint of just how complex the brain’s structure really is.
Have a nice weekend!
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Thank God it’s Friday. Check out our new gallery entries!
The first design is made by DAMN, two ladies who make damn good designs. This is a diamond shape accessory you can wear with your scarf. The design is printed in Stainless Steel gold plated and polished.
ORGANIC
3D Materialize Ltd made a nice pendant ‘Organic Mystery’ in brass.
Christopher Ouellette made a pendant, called ‘Deathly Hallow’. The name refers to the deathly hallow symbol that’s incorporated into the pyramid shaped pendant. He printed his design in Brass gold plated.
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
The weekend is coming closer, but first: let us show you our newest 3D printed entries. Happy Friday everyone!
SOHEEB KHAN made this lovely action figure of one of his character, 3D printed in polyamide. “i.materialise has done a fantastic job with the details and the result is beyond my expectation.”
British designer Caroline Saunders made a contemporary and abstract pendant for a necklace. She printed ‘Bird tree’ in silver with a high gloss finish.
The last design we want to show you is ‘Bijoux sur mesure‘ who prints -as the name says- customized jewelry. This ‘lightning’ ring is printed in silver with a high gloss finish.
Have an awesome weekend!
Do you want to show your design to the world? You should! find out how on our website.
Join us at our booth at RapidPro and win one of our 3D printed lamps!
Next month i.materialise will be present at RapidPro in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. Come and check us out at our booth or join one of our free lectures!
The Conference Centre Koningshof in Veldhoven is getting prepared for Rapid Pro 2013. Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th of February you’re all very welcome at this event to have a chat and learn more about our 3D printing service. Go to the RapidPro website to subscribe. Entrance is free!
Check out our booth (number 74) to see the widest range of materials, including metals and finishes. We will offer you a selection of commercial products, created by our community, such as Dutch jewelry designer Els Cuvelier and German designer monomer.
Next to that you will see finished products we printed for one of our business partners Twikit. Don’t hesitate to bring your own ideas and talk about possible partnerships.
LECTURES:
i.materialise will host two presentations so you can’t miss us.
- Tuesday 26th of Februari: 11.45-12.10
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s the end of the week so that means it’s time for our weekly Featured Friday!
Because we shortened the printing time of polyamide this month, we want to inspire you with some new polyamide models. 3D Materialize Ltd is ready to conquer the world with his 3D printed Samsung Galaxy covers. This one is printed in natural white polyamide.
Community member david made a selection of sculptures based on hand gestures. Below, you can see the well-known victory hand gesture printed in polyamide (of course).
The last design is a 3D printed logo, designed by Erik.
Do you want your design to be featured on the blog? Put them in the gallery or contact me via e-mail: tatiana.dewee@i.materialise.be
