3d printed art

Charleston, WV’s 3D Printed Holiday Ornaments Raise Awareness About Local Charities and 3D Printing

  Charleston, West Virginia has an interesting history caught up in the throes of the Civil War and its aftermath.  And it looks like it has a brighter economic future…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week – Dec. 14th

In any emerging industry as transformative as 3D printing, the news just keeps rolling in and getting more exciting. Here at 3Dprint.com we do our best to keep our readers up to…

3D Printed Replica of 4,500-Year-Old Jōmon Venus Draws Visitors to Japanese Museum

Yamagata Prefecture in the southwest corner of Tōhoku faces the East Sea/Sea of Japan in an area bounded by magnificent mountain vistas. It’s home to the Yamagata Prefectural Museum, which holds…

Dark Matter – Artist Morehshin Allahyari Tweaks Iranian Government With 3D Printing

Morehshin Allahyari, born and raised in Iran,  moved to the United States in 2007, and that move spurred her to begin a virtual, and often critical, examination of her native…

‘Split Personality’ The 3D Printed copperFill & bronzeFill Bust That Will Blow you Away

If you were to look at some of the items being fabricated with FFF/FDM 3D printers today, back in 2011 or 2012, you’d be shocked. Not only have these technologies been…

Drumlord’s 3D Printed “Black Chair” Blends Modern and Traditional Building to Replicate Historical Bardic Chair

3D printing’s intricate design potential has been realized in many artistic designs and projects already too numerous to count. I personally love any detail, craftsmanship, and design that announces that…

3D Printed DATA-MASKS Challenge Social Media Surveillance Technologies

“Computer systems built to represent human identities have contained with them many ontological assumptions about what it is to be an individual and what personal identity is. These systems define…

UPS Store’s 3D Printing Service Rules Say ‘Make Love, Not War’ – Sex Toys Permitted, Guns Not

“Makers, make love, not war.”  This appears to be the best way to summarize UPS’s 3D printing service guidelines. UPS has been offering 3D printing services for a little while,…

With Shapeways’ Support, 3DP4E Brings 3D Printing to Young Artists

We’ve seen 3D printing go to the stars and back, more or less literally. With all the expanding uses in high-tech industries like aerospace and semiconductors, we also need to…

Artist Eyal Gever Freezes Dramatic Moments in Large, Highly Detailed 3D Printed Sculptures

“My sculptures are created from software I have developed,” Eyal Gever writes. “Uncontrollable power, unpredictability and cataclysmic extremes are the sources for my work. They inspire, fascinate and remind me…

London Designer Models and 3D Prints Intricate, High Resolution Replica of Famous Sir Frederic Leighton Sculpture

When people looks towards 3D printing usually they don’t think “intricate, fine detailed sculpting.” After all, most desktop 3D printers on the market are based on FFF/FDM technology, which isn’t known…

Stratasys to Feature Nick Ervinck’s ‘The Sixth Element’ 3D Printed Art at EuroMold Next Week

Not only is EuroMold 2014 shaping to be a force to be reckoned with in terms of international trade shows, but Stratasys is going all out. They will be keeping…

3D Prints Smaller Than an Ant’s Forehead are Printed and Then Inevitably Lost

“We live in an era where the impossible has finally come to pass. In our own little way we have become demi-gods of creation.” – Jonty Hurwitz We’ve seen some…

3D-EYE Seeks to Create 3D Models of Artistic Masterpieces for the Visually Impaired

The capacity of 3D printing to improve virtually every aspect of living cannot really be overstated. It holds particular promise for the visually impaired in many regards. From 3D printed…

Waganari Melds Art and Technology with Dark, Ethereal 3D Printed Wire Sculptures

What an artist creates is a bundle of complexity, all sealed in one: a process, an expression of emotion, sometimes compulsive, repulsive — or breathtaking with its beauty. Most often,…

Aleksandrina Rizova & 3DPrintUK Create Intricate 3D Printed Walnut Table

While some of the most exciting applications for 3D printing have been within the medical field, saving lives or making them more fulfilling, there is no doubt that some of the more…

3D Printed Oreo Cookie Cameos: Artist Hand-Sculpts Creme, Scans and 3D Prints Replicas

Several factors go into creating great works of art. First you need a good artist, then that artist needs to form an idea. Originality is key for artists looking to…

21st Century Self-Portrait by Joshua Harker: Now you too can have your own face 3D printed

It wasn’t until the mid-15th century that artists really began to include themselves in their own artwork. An artist named Jan van Eyck is famous for creating the earliest known panel self-portrait….

Here’s Looking at You: Grotesque Faces in Off the Wall 3D Printed Art

Although this work of art was not created for Halloween, its timing works perfectly as the public mood is more than primed to accept all that is monstrous. Sculptor Dennis…

NYC Artist, Hovnanian, 3D Prints Baby’s Body Parts, Creates the ‘Perfect Baby Showroom’ Installation

We have seen some pretty incredible works of art, that if not for 3D printing, would never have gotten off the ground. As we have mentioned in the past, this…

Man Turns 3D Printer in Line Art Fabricator & You Can Too

3D printers are very useful tools in creating… well…. 3-dimensional objects. However, one man, named Emmanuel Adetutu has decided to take a step back in history and use his 3D printer…

3D Glitches – 3D Printed Nightmarish Landscapes

Artist Mathieu Schmitt has 3D printed a magical and haunting landscape. His work, is what I imagine Bill Brandt’s imagery would be in 3D – absolute blacks and glimpses of…

3D Print Fashion Designer, Bitonti, Announces 3D Printed Shoe, ‘Molecule’

“Desktop 3D Printers are among the most disruptive technologies we have ever seen. When you print things at home you are taking part in a revolution. You are democratizing manufacturing….

Janne Kyttanen Teams with 3D Systems & 3D Hubs to Create Incredible 3D Printed Orchid Cloud

3D Printing and art have been gradually coming together for quite some time now. It seems as though we are constantly seeing more and more mesmerizing designs created by artists…