You Can Now Buy Your Own Piece of Design History: The Lily.MGX Pushed 3D Printing from Prototyping to Design
In 2003, Finnish digital sculptor Janne Kyttanen presented a 3D print unlike any other to the audience of Milan Design Week. Until then, 3D printing was considered more of a prototyping technology. Janne pushed the boundaries and presented a 3D print that was meant for the consumer market. Little did the designer know that his Lily.MGX print would pave the way for many other great designs to be produced with the help of 3D printers.
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.MGX to be on Display at the First Major 3D Printing Exhibition in Athens
Good news for 3D Printing fans in Greece: some of the best 3D Printed items from the .MGX collection will be on display at 3D Tora, the first major exhibition in Greece dedicated entirely to 3D Printing. The exhibition will be held from December 15, 2014 until January 31, 2015, at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. If you’re visiting Greece for your Christmas holidays, you’ll want to add this exhibition to your must-see list! (more…)
.MGX Sets the Scene at the Seoul Design Festival!
This month, .MGX goes to the Seoul Design Festival. To get ready for the festival’s opening, the DDP Design Lab (Dongdaemun Design Plaza) will display the Gamete.MGX by Xavier Lust, Volume.MGX by Dror, Solid S1 by Patrick Jouin and the AI.MGX by Assa Ashuach. From November 5th to 25th, you can find these items at “3D Printing Design Exhibition: <MGX>” at the Gallery Café, Design Lab 2F at the DDP Design Lab. (more…)
.MGX Boutique’s Designer Patrick Jouin’s Work on Display at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Are you planning a trip to Amsterdam between October 25, 2014 and February 15th, 2015? Be sure to stop by the Stedelijk Museum to see the One_Shot.MGX stool and the Solid C2 chair by Patrick Jouin on display next to other forward-thinking designs in the “Superbox. Design Acquisitions.” exhibition.
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Source Firenze: Italy’s Free Design Exhibition in Florence Will Feature AmniosyA, .MGX, and Many More 3D Design Artists!
Source Firenze is a free Italian design exhibition coming to Florence (i.e. Firenze) area from September 11, 2014 to September 18, 2014. It takes place at the Limonaia Villa Strozzi of Florence (directions here), managed by the cultural association Officine Creative.
This Florence exhibition features 40 self-made designers, including the 2013 “i.materialise Designer of the Year” award-winner AmniosyA. It also includes activities for children, conferences, speakers and workshops. The event strives to provide attendees with new production techniques, business contacts, funding sources and inspiration.
Participation is free. Read on for details.
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Place an order above $150 and have a chance to win a special edition Snowflame.MGX!
The holidays are entering our houses, so it’s time to get cosy! To help you to get ready you have a chance to win a Christmas edition Snowflame.MGX this week (from the 16th up to and including the 20th of December). (more…)
Now Open in Shanghai: IndustrialRevolution.MGX
.MGX is excited to announce that an extensive selection of award-winning .MGX pieces is on display in China as part of the IndustrialRevolution.MGX exhibition at Shanghai’s celebrated 1933 building. The exhibition, which will last a period of 6 months, was created in response to the increasing interest in .MGX products in Asia, and will be the largest display of .MGX pieces ever shown in the region. The exhibition focuses on influential 3D creations, particularly pieces known for their power to inspire.
IndustrialRevolution.MGX
December 15, 2012 – June 15, 2013
1933 Shanghai
Room 1-214 (Materialise China)
No. 10 Shajing Road
Hongkou, Shanghai
P.R. China 200080
Below are some highlights of the opening that took place past saturday. More photos can be found on Flickr. And remember you can still buy most of these award-winning designs through the .MGX webshop.
.MGX online shop: buy award winning designs in just one click
Our fantastic colleagues in the .MGX by Materialise team have officially launched their new, expanded webshop. Take a look at their line of 3D-printed, award-winning design products and like us, discover your favorite pieces!
Are you a design lover and collector? In a few clicks, you can now buy a wonderful 3D printed piece for your home by the likes of Patrick Jouin, Arik Levy, or Janne Kyttanen to name a few. Just visit: http://www.mgxbymaterialise.com/webshop
The i.materialise team got together and selected our 3 favorite .MGX designs…which are your favorites?
1. Lily.MGX: this Red Dot Design Award winning lamp, created by Janne Kyttanen, is still a classic in the collection.
2. Detail.MGX: this lamp is the ultimate customized lamp, made from the designer’s, Dan Yeffet, 3D printed fingerprint.
3. Damned.MGX: this chandelier is a favorite of many. Designed by Luc Merx and based on a 17th century painting by P.P. Rubens, it should come as no surprise that it h
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
.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.”
