Tag: 3D Printing
3D printing is a new, buzzy technology that signifies hip forward-thinkingness; stop-motion animation is delightfully quaint, analog, and old-school. Why not combine the two? That’s what DBLG did to create Bears on Stairs, a stop-motion short in which every frame is individually 3D-printed. Efficient? No. Buzzy? Definitely! Watch it above. […]
If you’ve been yearning for a more precise hand to give you your next tattoo, a group of French students may have the answer: have a robot do it for you. Pierre Emm, Piotr Wedelka, and Johan da Silveira hacked a Makerbot 3D printer as part of an electronics workshop at Paris’s ENSCI-Les Ateliers design school, […]
Sneakerheads looking for that brand new heat might consider these 3D-printed numbers that can be folded up small enough to fit in your pocket or backpack. Here’s what they look like in full-on shoe mode. No relation to these guys, despite the “Filaflex” on the tongue — that’s the name of the 3D-printing filament used […]
If you thought Anya and Mar‘s Vladimir Putin My Ass Butt Plug was a funny concept, here is a real one by graphic designer Fernando Sosa in the [3D-printed] flesh. “What better way to attack Mr. Putin’s shirtless bear wrestling reputation?” At first, Sosa just wanted to highlight the Russian president’s vicious war against the civil rights of the LGBT. “Since […]
Well, then: a company called 3D Babies is offering “adorable baby figurine resembling your baby’s facial features and body position” based on “3D/4D ultrasound images.” They are 3D-printed fetuses, and they look like this. How cute! You may be wondering, “How much would it cost for such a beautiful memento of my pregnancy” I’m glad […]
Every part of Digital Grotesque — “the first human-scale immersive space entirely constructed out of 3D printed sandstone” — was designed with customized algorithms. Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger sculptural installation is a flat cube on the outside and an intricate subversion of classical sculpture on the inside, twisting and melting, sprouting and mirroring with “a complex geometry” of “260 million specified micro-details.” There are some […]
Here’s the latest addition to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s permanent collection: the Liberator, the world’s first 3D-printed gun. The London design museum “acquired two Liberator prototypes, one disassembled gun, and a number of archive items” from Defense Distributed, the company behind the Liberator, and displayed them this weekend as part of the London Design Festival, […]
Remember all that noise about 3D-printed guns? And then the subsequent panicked government attempts to censor and regulate the downloads of files that take a huge, expensive effort to turn into breakable physical objects? F.A.T. artist Kyle McDonald has a few things to say about that. I believe that networked media, in its current form, can not […]
Here’s some beautifully uncanny valley-baiting art for your Tuesday afternoon: Replicants, a trio of 3D-printed sculptures from UK artist Lorna Barnshaw. Each takes a human face as its original model, using a particular software and printer to render out a final product. The idiosyncrasies of each process create the differences you see here. One is a relatively […]
The world’s 3D-printing resources seem to be continuously improving allowing the applications of this new medium to shifting and changing at an exponential rate. This emerging technology, that many of us may have only learned about a few years ago, is already on its way to becoming the standard for product production, rapid prototyping, and even […]
