3d printed sculpture

3D Printing Dog Creates 3Key Kinetic Sculpture, a Deconstructed Typewriter

There is something satisfying about the ruckus caused by an old fashioned typewriter. The sound feels like progress and the act of writing is as close to dancing as it…

Wait…Let Me 3D Print a Cosplay Selfie

If you have ever wanted a statue of yourself, but failed to have the foresight necessary to have become pope or queen or some sort of national hero, then you’ve…

Artist Marcy Milks 3D Prints 20,000 Figures to Populate an Art Installation

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…

Digital Giraffe Creates These Amazing Giant 3D Printed Sculptures

Corinne Whitaker has been publishing The Digital Giraffe, an award winning monthly art journal, online now for 21 years and exploring the medium of desktop digital image making for 34….

Design Duo Bart/Bratke Create Incredible 3D Printed Sound Sculpture

German designers Paul Bart and Marvin Bratke collaborated for over a decade before deciding to found their own studio in 2014. The two share a fascination with the impact that…

2015 Siggraph: Workshop, ‘Freezing Time,’ to Turn Animation into 3D Printed Sculptures

What’s the biggest reason today we are all so bent, across the globe, on putting nearly everything we can into 3D form? Because we can! While the intent behind many…

Canadian Artist Guillaume Lachapelle Creates Haunting, 3D Printed Dioramas

There’s something so compelling and, conversely, off-putting and potentially even anxiety-provoking about the 3D printed dioramas of Montréal-based artist Guillaume Lachapelle. This sculptor–who is clearly inspired by architecture and the human…

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…

Digital Synesthesia: REIFY Turns Your Favorite Song into a 3D Printed Sculpture

Think about how many times you’ve heard a tune on the radio and said, “That’s my song.” What would it look like if you could take it to the next dimension, and…

‘2015 Triennial: Surround Audience’ Exhibit Features Artists Not Afraid of 3D Printing & Contemporary Technology

An edgy exhibit at New York City’s New Museum truly has a realistic idea of what’s going on in contemporary art and design today — as they make a statement about…

Sculpting for a New Millennium: The VormVrij Clay 3D Printer

Material innovations in 3D printing are the next frontier, and Dutch company VormVrij 3D is harking back to an age-old material to find the future. Designers Marlieke Wijnakker and Yao van…

French Digital Artist Claire Sauvaget 3D Prints Her Own Mental Maps

French digital artist and sculptor Claire Sauvaget takes us along with her on her daily commute. We trail behind her down stairs, around corners, onto crowded train platforms, and through narrow corridors….

Guillemin Takes His ‘Secret Life of Heroes’ 3D Printed Cult Art To Book Form, Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Greg “Léon” Guillemin has dreamt up one of those rare and funny, delightful concepts that combined with stunning craftsmanship simply leaves everyone wanting more. He’s also an artist who enjoys working…

“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…

3D Printed Kinetic Sculpture Pays Homage to the Porsche Engine

3D printing meets that enduring human drive to figure out how something works and finds physical form in Jonathan Brady’s kinetic sculpture, Flat Six. This approximately 5” x 5” x…

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…

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…

Send in Your 3D Printed Medallion to be Part of Massive Community Sculpture, ‘Linked’

It’s a sculpture for the people, by the people — all in a mass celebration that weaves together the progress of amazing 3D printing technology, community, and enormous creative spirit. Coming…

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…

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,…

Art in Bones: 3D Printed Sculptures from The Czech Republic

Czech artist Monika Horčicová creates fantastic conglomerations of 3D printed bones – the kind you imagine could have come from the skeletal remains of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky. The creations are…