3D printed watch

August 2nd, 2007

3D printed watch by Frederic Hakoune

Indeed this watch was printed with a rapid prototyping 3D printer by Frederic Hakoune. Okay, it’s actually only the casing of the watch that was printed, but still. He could print a different casing design every … You can see more pictures of the whole process in his Facebook account.

Polytop

February 15th, 2007

Did you ever wonder how designers and architects come up with those crazy shapes? Well, here is the answer: they script them! Yeah it’s just some math and formulas fed to 3D software like Rhinoceros. So now you know why you pay that much …
Ok, that’s a little exaggerated, but still.

This coffee table called “Polytop” by Marc Fornes is a perfect example. Every table is unique, which is easily accomplished with scripting and modern production techniques like CNC.

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Patrick Jouin

November 1st, 2006

patrickjouin.jpgPatrick Jouin designed some solid stereolitography furniture a while ago. Stereolitography is a rapid prototyping technique and gaining popularity day by day.

Sketch Furniture

October 29th, 2006

The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.

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Worthers’Original

July 10th, 2006

Philip Worthington studied at the RCA in London (= crème de la crème).
The interface of his portfolio is a little but too much flash, but his project are outstanding. Check Lineriders and Hidden Horoscopes Newspaper!

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3D printing

May 17th, 2006

quin_night_render.jpgHere’s some more 3D printing … Bathsheba Grossman is an artist who combines math, science and sculpture, to make objects like this lamp. You can only produce the shape of this lamp with a 3D printer (rapid prototyping). Materialise.MGX is a firm which is specialised in such production techniques. You receive a 3D file along wth the products, so you’ll be able to reproduce them … start your filesharing platform now!

Contour Crafting

May 17th, 2006

cc.jpgLately there’re a lot of products coming out which are made with rapid prototyping techniques. Maybe one day everybody will have such a rapid prototyping machine at home and will be able to download blueprints and “print” the product at home. But what about houses? Well, fear no more Contour Crafting is working on it.

you want to change your wallpaper?

May 12th, 2006

Forget it! Concrete Blond makes concrete wallpaper.

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Cinderella

February 6th, 2006

This table, Cinderella, by Jeroen Verhoeven (part of the design studio DEMAKERSVAN), is made of x layers of laser cut wood. Amazing.

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freedom of creation

February 1st, 2006

Freedom of Creation is a design firm from Finland, specialised in product made with rapid manufactoring (which are more or less rapid prototyping techniques). For example this lamp, Cube, has such a structure which can only be made with such a technique.

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