3d printed art

A Poetics of Failure: Sophie Kahn Uses 3D Printing to Challenge the Digital Era

In the mid-’90s I attended Philosophy graduate school when something called “deconstruction” was all the rage. In a nutshell, deconstruction criticizes a Western philosophical assumption that the natural and social worlds are objective…

Abstract Painting Meets 3D Design and Printing To Recreate Kandinsky Masterpiece “Composition VIII”

At the age of 30, Moscow native Wassily Kandinsky had a comfortable career teaching law and economics, and he gave it all up to enroll in art school in Munich….

“Emerging Venus”: Kim Thoman’s 3D Printed Sculptures Designed to Embody Dualities

As a fellow native Nebraskan, I feel a kindred connection to artist Kim Thoman’s work. As cliché as it sounds, there is something about the expansive skies and roads that go…

London Artist Combines the Organic and Hi-Tech with 3D Printed ‘Big Growth Table’

3D printing is by definition all about replicating ‘things.’ The technology is impacting the world due to its ability to work as a replacement for many required things from body…

MCAD’s “Beyond the Buzz” Digital Fabrication Exhibit Featuring 3D Printed Art Opens Today

While there is much emphasis on the technical side of 3D printing, as we tend to be enamored by all things technological these days, the stunning visual displays facilitated by…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — January 17

2015 is well underway, with the Consumer Electronics Show‘s news so last week, and a stream of new stories that continue to captivate us regarding 3D printing’s evolution as an…

3D Printed Barbie Chariot, Pulled by Cat, Featured in New Kickstarter Campaign

In any of the childcare facilities I have ever worked, the Barbies are almost always mangled, some beyond repair. There’s just something about Barbie dolls that make you want to…

FABMOBs Looks to Kickstarter for Support of Platform to 3D Print the Atmosphere

We live in a world full of information and data. Economics. Analysis. Numbers. Problems to be solved. It can get a little dry, to say the least. Adding visual punch…

6 of the Coolest Works of 3D Printed Art We’ve Ever Seen

Mushroom chairs, nuclear cloud lamps, eerie ghost-like trapped creatures, beautiful shell-cone objects, and stag’s and futuristic human heads, are all featured as some of the coolest pieces of 3D printed…

Cirque du Soleil Uses 3D Printing To Help Them Design 18,000 Costumes Every Year

The Cirque du Soleil creates 18,000 costumes every year in their workshops in Montreal, Canada, and they say that their designers are now using 3D printing technology to test out…

3D Printed Tree Fractals Featured in Microscape Project

If you are going for a walk in the woods, you may be mesmerized by the variety of sensory experiences available to you. The natural diversity represented on that walk…

3D Printing a ‘Piece of Ocean’ — Art Demonstrates Strength of Stratasys’ Objet1000 3D Printer

Art featuring the waves and the ocean has been popular since the crafts of drawing and painting came to inception, far before we can even imagine. Our will to conquer…

ZVerse Reports Strong 12-Month Performance, Appoints Scot Wingo to Board of Directors

ZVerse, Inc., a content application provider for full color 3D printing, says that after 12 consecutive months of growth in 2014, they’ve added Scot Wingo, the founder of ChannelAdvisor, to the…

Jonathan Brand 3D Printed A Ghostly, Translucent, Full-sized Motorcycle – And It’s Amazing

Jonathan Brand is a designer and artist and he’s done something gearheads, motorcycle freaks and 3D printing mavens will love. Working from his studio on Orange Street in New Haven,…

Heroes of 3D Printing – Educator Josh Ajima Brings 3D Printed Art to the Gumball Machine

Josh Ajima is a teacher and 3D printing evangelist, and through his Design Make Teach sites, he blogs about making in the classroom. He is the Technology Resource Teacher for the Loudoun Academy…

Japanese Artist Combines Modern Technology with Traditional Ukiyo-e for Huge 45 Piece 3D Printed Masterpiece

Over the course of the past couple years, we have seen 3D printing used by many artists to create incredible works that would not have been possible without this modern-day…

Naina Redhu Uses 3Doodler to Turn Heads at Hermès Silk Ball with 3D Printed Eye Mask

High fashion and 3D printing have been making headlines together steadily of late. With the opportunity to show off haute couture in a new light, fashion designers have proudly —…

Dizingof’s Random Infinite Pattern and Klein Bottle Highlight 3D Printing’s Creative Explosion

Does anyone know any artists not hip to the 3D printing scene yet?  I do.  Several, in fact.  I just love getting to be the one to describe to an…

Fucco Design Creates Stunning 3D Printed Religious Sculptures Using ColorFabb’s woodFill

Beautiful artwork has historically always been displayed in religious venues. From the inspiration of Michelangelo’s work on the Sistine Chapel 500 years ago to the modern works being completed today,…

All Things Fall – A Horrifying and Artistic Use of 3D Printing by Mat Collishaw

‘All Things Fall’ was inspired by The Massacre of the Innocents masterpieces, paintings which resonate with biblical horror. The brutality and struggle of the scenes depicted within the paintings are…

Joy Complex’s 3D Printed Modūlus Ring Collection Offers Constant Variation

It’s no mistake that the ring is the most common piece of jewelry people use to commemorate special occasions like weddings and graduations.  It sits on your finger, reminding you,…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — December 20

It’s the end of another week, which means it’s also time to catch our readers up on stories we didn’t cover last week. As always, last week’s 3D printing news…

Artist is 3D Printing a 26 Foot Long Boat in 100,000 Separate Pieces on 30 3D Printers

Over the past year, we have seen many incredible 3D printing projects take place. There have been houses, cars, boats, and prosthetic hands that have all been created on 3D printers….

Rachel Goldsmith: Artist in 3Doodler

I finally know what I want for Christmas (or any other holiday that people want to use as an excuse to give me presents): A 3Doodler. And it’s not just…