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3D Printing News Briefs: December 15, 2017

In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with some aerospace 3D printing, then moving on to business announcements, new releases, and 3D printed art. The European Space Agency has…

Enjoy This Dead Fly Encased in a 3D Print: Is it Art, a Valuable Fossil, or Evidence of the Anthropocene Era?

Are you one of those people who swats flies to their death with wild abandon, wielding the fly swatter as a lethal weapon? Many of us are serious about ridding…

New Mat Collishaw Works Feature 3D Printed Zoetrope & Virtual Reality Photography Landscape

While Mat Collishaw may not be completely comfortable with 3D printing, it would seem that he is happily dependent on it—as seen in one of his latest works featuring an…

3D Printing Art: Complicated Opportunities

3D printing is being used by artists, curators, museums and galleries worldwide to create works. Designers, sculptors, digital artists, painters and people new to the art world are using 3D…

NASA’s Massive James Webb Space Telescope Inspires Out-of-This-World 3D Printed Art

Art is always inspired by something – a feeling, an event, a muse. So what can artists come up with when their given muse is a large, technologically advanced telescope?…

Ukrainian Artist Unveils 3-Meter-Tall 3D Printed “Walking Flower” Sculpture

From the earliest cave drawings to the “Mona Lisa” portrait that hangs in the Louvre, art is an interesting, fluid concept. A piece of artwork that moves you to tears could…

UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage Works on Conserving 3D Printed Artwork

I think we can all agree that 3D printed art is a marvel, even if you’re still not sure you can technically call it art. In my personal opinion, 3D printing…

Akinori Goto Creates the Illusion of Dance with 3D Printed Zoetrope

Way back before production companies like Pixar flashed heart-warming animated movies before our eyes, and Saturday mornings became synonymous for cartoons, was a bedazzling pre-film animation device called the zoetrope….

Indulge Yourself in Follies:  Featuring a 3D Printed Zoetrope Orgy & Peaceful Meditative Mirror Installation

Folly! It’s the name of Mat Collishaw’s exhibit in the ornamental setting at Fountain’s Abbey in Yorkshire, but the artwork is certainly anything but, featuring two very different installations, gaining…

Waterscape: A Series of Minimalist Aquarium Designs Made Using 3D Printed Objects

One of the things that I love about the world of contemporary art is the complete lack of boundaries or limitations that it places on artists. Museums and galleries that…

Doolydoo Turns your Kids’ Drawings into 3D Printed Collectable Statues

The parents of a young child, almost without exception, will have a refrigerator covered with drawings, doodles, and artwork. The family refrigerator art gallery is something that crosses borders and…

Artficial Launches Innovative New Platform for Replicating the ‘DNA’ of Art via 3D Printing

We have seen 3D printing go to use in replicating many of history’s great art works. While today’s technology now allows for the 3D scanning of sculptures and statues, it is still…

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…