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 royalty. The text used to say “you will recieve a 5% royalty.” We have put a strikethrough through this text, this indicates that this is no longer the case. This is a striketrhough. Now designers can select their own royalty. We also have noticed that there seem to be many questions about royalties. I am working on a blog post exploring royalties and the cost structure of 3D printing. I hope this will enable people to explore the concept of royalties and hopefully will lead to a discussion about what would be good royalties to use. For now, the designer can select whatever royalty they want. If you do not understand this text please email joris (@) i.materialise.com   We will explore designer royalties The jewelry design will always remain your property and you will receive a margin of your choice.
The top 3 will also receive a 3D print of their work.
Additionally the overall winner will receive a personal one on one MasterClass from noted hat designer Elvis Pompilio.
The winner will also get to collaborate on a 3D printed product with Mr. Pompilio.
There will be a further exhibition of the winner’s work at a Sablon together with a 3D printed jewelry workshop lead by Karen Wuytens. Karen is also responsible for the attractive works that illustrate this page.
Exceptional work will be considered for inclusion in the .MGX collection.
We will also dedicate PR support to you so that we can hopefully get your work noticed!
Guidelines
The contest runs from today to the 1st of June.
Submit either a sketch or 3D model as well as an additional explanation of your piece.
You can add renderings or multiple sketches if you would like.Â
You can select any material in the i.materialise arsenal. But, if we do select your piece as one of the 10 winning pieces we reserve the right to 3D print it in a material of our choosing.
Enter by submitting your sketch or 3D model here.
