3d printed art
Oyma 3D Celebrates Don Quixote’s 400th Anniversary with 400 3D Printed ‘Rocinante’ Sculptures
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…
The Ecuadorian Film Festival Turns to 3D Printing for Their Awards
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….
ElevatedMaps Launches to Create Artistic 3D Printed Custom Maps of Anyplace in the World
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…
Freakish Prints — An Entertaining Website Chronicling When 3D Prints Go Wrong
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…
Ben Raynes’ 3D Printed ‘Landscapes In Motion’ Are Incredible Moving Paintings
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…
Sketchfab’s Top 3D Printable Downloads for May
Sketchfab is a 3D model website that has over 200,000 different models listed on it. Because of its wide selection, companies and individuals are looking to it more and more…
Artist Jenny Filipetti Brings Together Breathing & Clay 3D Printing in “Breath Vessels”
Semiotics is the study of the philosophical theory of signs and symbols, and it’s closely related to linguistics, but semiotics also takes into account non-linguistic, symbolic systems. Artist Jenny Filipetti…
London: Massive 3D Printed Honey Artwork Creates a Buzz over Colony Collapse Disorder
Nothing gets the creative juices flowing more readily than the idea of 3D printing with food–and especially the sweet stuff. While we’ve reported on everything from 3D printed chocolate to 3D…
‘Cumulus’ Makes Lightning With 3D Printing, Programming and Sound
SOFTlab is a New York City design studio created by Michael Szivos, and it’s been involved in the design and production of projects across mediums such as digital fabrication. Szivos says the studio…
Tanya Marriott’s 3D Printed Kakatrope Pays Tribute to Renowned Ecologist
William Horner called it a Daedalum – the Wheel of the Devil – and it was largely forgotten by the time William F. Lincoln brought the concept back and renamed…
Gary Erickson’s 3D Printed Faux Stained Glass Will Amaze You
I remember as a child, visiting my uncle’s house and greatly admiring the stained glass windows that filled his living room and kitchen. There was something about these colorful pieces…
Magical Art: 3D Printing Enables Artists to Create Designs That Change Forms Depending on Light
Over the past few years we have really begun to see many mainstream artists use 3D printing technology within their creations. Whether it is artistic fashion design, incredible lithophanes, or…
London-Based PrintME 3D Collaborates on 3D Printed Shanghai Windows Project Installation
There is something truly magical about art and architecture installations in urban settings that complement, comment on, or even disrupt usual fast-paced or even hyper kinetic city life. These installations…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — May 9, 2015
In this week’s stories we missed, while 3D printing gains a stronger foothold in the defense industry with the opening of an America Makes Satellite Center in El Paso, Texas,…
3D Printed Polar Drawbot Can Make You a Modern Day Michelangelo
Carlo Franciscone, an Italian engineer from Novara, has done a redesign of the mechanical parts used to build a wall-mounted Polar Drawbot based on work he’s seen by others on…
Details Emerge: 3D Printed Camaro, Created With Homemade Filament, Now May Be Auctioned Off
At the intersection of art and 3D printing stands one man named Ioan Florea who’s been able to captivate the attention of large audiences in ways that were unimaginable only a…
Top 3D Printable 3DShare Models This Week — Nude Polly, Egg Lampshade, Wine Bottle Hooks & More
3DSha.re is a repository for anything under the sun when it comes to 3D printable models. And for this reason, it is nonetheless controversial because you are privy to the…
3D Printed “Tree in Cross” Jewelry Inspired by Surrealist Painter Salvador Dalí
Desmond Chan, founder of Hong Kong-based Vulcan Jewelry, has perhaps one of the most pertinent reasons for entering into the growing 3D printed jewelry design space: his wife. As he recalls in an email…
Mark Bern Takes His 2-Dimensional Pixel Art and Prints it in 3D
When most of us speak of visual art, we usually get a picture of a painting or a sculpture in our heads. Perhaps we visualize Michelangelo’s paintings that cover the…
Google Art Project Adds 3D Scans to Its Database of Viewable Artifacts & Art
We are all too well aware of what’s going on in parts of Africa and the Middle East. Terrorists, more ignorant, brutal, and senseless than one can even imagine, have…
The Small Museum Project Reframes Cultural Experience with a 3D Printed ‘Museum in a Box’
Good, Form & Spectacle, a London design firm, spent some time recently redefining the meaning of what a museum is–and can be–during their major research project called ‘The Small Museum.’…
3D Systems Teams with 5 Artists to 3D Print Incredible Ceramic Sculptures
There are so many materials available now-a-days to 3D print with. Of course most of us, from a consumer standpoint, are familiar with the thermoplastics such as ABS and PLA,…
Japanese Designer Offers 3D Printed Transformer Kit, ‘Stingray,’ Through Shapeways
Whether your favorite Transformers character showdown was the frightful Bruticus v. Metroplex or powerful Optimus Prime v. Megatron, when it comes to Transformers on the battlefield, one thing is for…
Joris Peels & Christina Rebel Launch OBLIQUE – A Curated Gallery for 3D Printed Fashion, Art, & Design
When it comes to 3D printing, there are several individuals who you could consider to be superstars within the space. Names such as Bre Pettis, Avi Reichental, RichRap, Brook Drumm,…
