Columbia GSAPP Saturated Models 3D printed: Velcro Panel System
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 seventh interview with a team of participating architecture students and their project: Velcro Panel System by John Hooper & Julie Jira.
What is the Velcro Panel System? And does it work like Velcro?
The Velcro Panel System is intended to generate varying degrees of tension within an environment. The tension is facilitated through a hook and loop system, which is conceptually similar to the way Velcro performs. This Velcro panel system works well in tension, especially when hung. The panels are able to adhere to each other and morph into their own set of physical characteristics through interaction with other objects.
Why did you make it?
The intention was to create objects, which woul
Using 3D Printing to Entertain your Ears
You’ve seen it with your own eyes, you’ve felt it in your hands, but have you heard what 3D printing is capable of?
For those of you who don’t know him already, let me introduce you to Erec: a man who creates wonderful 3D printed flutes in his spare time. He offers his custom made flutes for sale on his website Cutting Edge Flutes and also provides the service of making them food safe.
The following video will you show you one of his flutes that got printed at i.materialise in multicolor.
More of Erec”s work can be seen on his YouTube account and if you too would like to design something in multicolor, stay tuned cuss next week we”ll discuss the best tips and tricks of this great material.
The Winning Design of the Peeters & Pichal Challenge has been 3D Printed
We recently organized a Dutch design challenge with the Belgian Radio 1 Peeters & Pichal Show. The objective was to design an object that you would give away to someone close to you. In this case, the winning design was that of Dutch designer Ricardo de Koning: A Design for your Flowers as he called it, to be given as a gift to his mother. Today we’re proud to introduce the finished print of that winning design.
Once again, we would like to congratulate the winner and thank all participants for their entries. As mentioned in the past, there are always more design challenges on the horizon and that’s also true at this very moment with our “Hats off to 3D Printing Challenge”. So don’t hesitate to get creative once more and take another shot at the hall of 3D Print fame.
The Hats Off to 3D Printing Challenge
Do you have big dreams of seeing your hats or accessories hit the runway, gracing the heads of glamorous models? Or, do you love 3D printing and enjoy pitting your creative abilities against those of others? Either way, this is the competition for you! So, get on your thinking caps, because it is time to get creative!
You now have the chance to get your work exposed on a fashion runway at the Materialise World Conference of 2012 in Leuven. It’s the ultimate place where the top industry professionals from all over the world gather to celebrate the latest achievements in additive manufacturing. In the world of 3D printing, you couldn’t hope for better exposure than that!
The competition will be running from today until the 15th of February of 2012 with in the jury panel none other than the Master milliner himself, Elvis Pompilio. The winner will be announced on the 1st of March and will have a spot on the runway amongst the top 20 designs.
So if you are looking for some expo
Treat your Christmas tree to some “free” 3D Printed Decorations
Christmas is coming and with it comes the fun of decorating your Christmas tree at home. Yes… it’s that time of the year where you take the decoration box out of the closet to dress your tree. But aren’t you tired of always seeing the same kind of decoration hanging on your tree year after year? Wouldn’t it be great if you could give it some designer’s touch? Make it feel pretty and special for this year? I can see your tree nodding and smiling already, so we’ve decided to give you the opportunity to treat it to some exclusive 3D printed designs.
For this Christmas, we have a collection of 3D printed decorations available for you in our online gallery. Better yet, we are giving a Christmas item out of our collection for free with each order at a value of 50 euro and above (shipping and VAT costs NOT included) that you place with us. And as with all collections, people often want to complete the set, so we’ve also made our entire collection available through our online gallery and at
Looking back at the 3D Printing Event in Eindhoven
Yesterday I visited the one-day 3D Printing Event that ran as part of the Dutch Design Week (22-30 Oct) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I was there to catch a glimpse of what others were doing with 3D printing and how it was being used by the public at home.
The event attracted companies like Ultimaker, A1 Technologies and Origo amongst many others to showcase their latest ideas and products to the public. 3D printing at home was set as the main theme of the event and the adequate printing machines were there to showcase their quality and possibilities.
Clearly present was the Dutch based company Ultimaker who managed to impress with their fast and qualitative kit 3D printers. They are great contributors to the spreading of 3D printing at home in which they might help to stimulate that much-needed price drop that thousands of hungry home designers are waiting for. Whatever your opinion on the price of an affordable 3D printer may be, one thing is sure… they are definitely a compan
Impressions from 3D printed .MGX designs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Our creative sister division MGX has recently exhibited some amazing 3D printed works of art at the V&A in London. This attracted thousands of culture-hungry attendees which resulted in a 20-day extension of the original exhibition dates. As with all exhibitions, the show must end some day and for .MGX that day was the 15th of October of 2011. However, that doesn’t mean that we didn’t think about all those of you who couldn’t make it to view the exhibition.
Especially for you, we have decided to share our impressions on this blog. May it inspire you to be our next great designer to showcase at such a lovely venue.
Escapism Tunic by Iris van Herpen ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
SOLID C1 Chair & SOLID T1 table by Patrick Jouin ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Trunk by Peter Marigold ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Fractal- T by Platform Studio & Matthias Bär ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The One_Shot.MGX by Patrick Jouin ©Victoria and Albert Muse
The power of 3D printing at the push of a button in Google SketchUp
Google SketchUp is used by thousands of people around the world to create and share wonderful 3D designs, so it comes as no surprise that i.materialise introduced a 3D printing plugin to provide you with that extra level of awesomeness. Not only can you translate your creative ideas into virtual 3D models, but you can now actually get them 3D printed at i.materialise by simply clicking a button within the program! That’s 3D printing made easy for you.
But as we all know, a picture is worth a thousand words so we’ve decided to swamp you with them in the following video.
Try the plugin here!
i.materialise brings 3D printing to museum of contemporary art
For those of you who fancy a portion of grand culture and art with a side order of the lovely city of Antwerp, we’ve got great news for you. The Antwerp based museum M HKA and i.materialise have joined hands to bring you a glimpse of the 3D printing experience. Not only will you be given an introduction to the world of 3D printing during this event, but you’ll also be able to enjoy exquisite exhibitions like the one of grand artist Jef Geys who believes that 3D printing is the next step in concepts surrounding art and production.
We found Jef Geys’ question, “What makes an artwork real and what is it that gives it its uniqueness?” quite interesting in relation to 3D printing. Take Martin Douven for example, whose work is being showcased at the M HKA thanks to Jef Geys. Martin Douven was a self-taught artist who taught his children to create and replicate famous paintings applying the “painter’s chain” method. It was a method by which paintings were created in some kind of assem
London Design Festival’s 3D ‘revolution’
Two weeks ago we were talking about the first ever exhibition at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum to solely feature 3D printed pieces: ‘Industrial Revolution 2.0: How the Material World will Newly Materialise’. If you can”t make it to London, have a look at the video below. Curator Murray Moss guides reporter Matt Cowan through the V&A and shows him all the wonderful 3D printed pieces from the Industrial Revolution 2.0.
London Design Festival 2011
‘Industrial Revolution 2.0’
Sept. 17-25; Victoria & Albert Museum
Opening times: 10.00 to 17.45 daily 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays.
Entrance is free.
For further information, visit http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/l/london-design-festival-2011-displays-and-installations.
