3d printed art

Illustrator John Nickle has been making a living as an artist for newspapers, magazines, novel covers and children’s books for over 25 years now. His body of work is as diverse…

In the West Village, one of the oldest parts of New York City, you can find a strange little shop called Carmine Street Comics. Not only do they sell the…

From 1979 to 1989, a bloody war between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union claimed the lives of roughly a million people on both sides of the conflict. Millions more were…

The team at Formsfield is just plain over 3D printed figurines, shoddy plastic key chains, egg holders, and spoon rests. If that’s what you’re into–fine–but you won’t discover anything of…

3D printing seems to be the catalyst for a new world of creativity and innovation, perhaps infinite. Designers wow us at every turn it seems, with intricately fabricated 3D models….

Soft robotics is a relatively new field of research that aims to create flexible robots that are more easily adaptable to human interaction. Often, the forms of these creations and…

At this moment, there are approximately 13,000 asylum seekers who have been given refugee status in the Netherlands and are awaiting new homes. While many there argue there is insufficient…

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell The immense statues at Nimrud stood as silent sentinels…

At first sight, the teeming white figures seem to represent the active citizenry of a metropolis, all out and on their way about their daily lives. However, get closer and…

Originally created by NASA to be used in rocket fuel, a ferrofluid is precisely what it sounds like, a liquid with magnetically reactive properties. The intention was for it to…

Gianluca (Owen) Pugliese is an artist who uses a variety of materials and 3D technology to create his pieces, but of late, his principal material has been light. Now working…

If there was one controversy which has been plaguing the 3D printing space for the past few years, it would have to be the potential dangers of 3D printable guns…

Almost exactly one year ago, we covered Japanese artist Aki Inomata’s fascinating project to 3D print hermit crab shells in the forms of various iconic skylines. Those tiny crawling cityscapes, printed…

In the 1800’s, the European lithopane art form was a way to express the three dimensional potential of a photographic image. Traditional lithopanes are etched in porcelain, and require back-lighting to view the…

Written in collaboration with Bella Green of 1click3dprint.com “Life in general, science, art, humans; everything is a source of inspiration. It’s the craving for creating something unique that stands out from…

Jun Huang is a fine-arts painter, sculptor, model maker and 3D modeler who works in the fields of games, movies and television. His past projects have included permanent displays for the…

Sometimes disruption in class can be a very positive thing. And students in India are about to find out exactly why, as art and technology are mixed in an innovative…

As human creations, the machines we make and systems we put in place are of course imperfect. Media artists Jan Sengstake and Vincent Brinkmann, both students at the University of Arts in…

Eden Tartour designed seven 3D printed blocks which she hoped would result in a “universal language” of sorts where those shapes represent words, and each could be shifted around to change…

The heroism and character of Don Quixote–buffoonery included–has certainly stood the test of time. A character sprung from the expansive and clever mind of Spanish author Cervantes in 1605, Don Quixote…

This is the seventh year of the Ecuadorian Film Festival, which was started in Washington, D.C. to promote Ecuadorian film, culture and food, and its inaugural year in New York….

I’m in the process of moving into a new home, and boy do I have my hands full. My husband and I have decided to furnish and design the interior…

We’ve all done it before–left the room while a 3D printing project was underway, only to return to find that things didn’t go the way we had planned. In the…

I once had an art professor tell me that the best kind of art is the kind that has never been done before. He was a major proponent of originality…