sculpture

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…

The Intimacy Installation: 3D Printing and Projection Mapping Project

Artists Jenil Buria, Ana Mickovic, and Mike Alger were interested in exploring ideas of intimacy. As with any group project, this involved hours of planning and brainstorming, itself a somewhat…

“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…

Incredible 3D Printed Blooming Zoetropes Sculptures

Nature is filled with numbers — or possibly numbers are filled with nature. Either way, artists have been exploring the relationships between numerical form and physical form for as long…

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…

3D Printed Bust of Obama Adds Truly Modern Touch to Presidential Portraiture

Among the most familiar faces in the world are those that belong to the leaders of world powers. More so than ever before, it is difficult to imagine a time…

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,…

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…

3D Scanning the World – Travel Competition Announced by My Mini Factory

If you are looking for a big project, look no further than the My Mini Factory ‘Scan the World’ travel competition. The creators of My Mini Factory have issued a…

3D Printed by Ergatory – Decaying Coral Meets Pottery

Ergatory, founded by Isaïe Bloch, is an atelier in Belgium focusing on the production of object art through 3D printing and creative fabrication. Bloch has regularly collaborated with other rising…

3D Printed Reproduction of Memorial Statue of Fallen Navy Seal to Raise Money for Veterans

Navy Seal Chris Kyle, most widely known as the author of American Sniper, is the subject of a life-size sculpture. Kyle was killed, not while on one of his four…

Harley Valentine Moves from 3D Printed Model to Installed Monuments

Harley Valentine is a contemporary Canadian artist based in Toronto. He is currently working on a major sculpture commission that will stand in the plaza of the Sony Centre for…

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…

Nick Ervinck Releases His Book of Amazing 3D Printed Art, ‘GNI_RI_2014’

If you haven’t seen Ervinck’s work, you should take a look. The pieces he has created have taken his home country of Belgium by storm and are sure to expand…