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CandyFab 4000: 3D Sugar Printer

Earlier we gave a sneak preview of our project to construct a home-built three dimensional fabricator. Our design goals were (1) a low cost design leveraging recycled components (2) large printable volume emphasized over high resolution, and (3) ability to use low-cost printing media including granulated sugar. We are extremely pleased to be able to report that it has been a success: Our three dimensional fabricator is now fully operational and we have used it to print several large, low-resolution, objects out of pure sugar. More about the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories 3D Fabricator Project.

(One of the first objects made with the 3D sugar printer.)

Source: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Lars Spuybroek: Mylight

The mylight’ lamp – limited edition of 24 unique pieces. We can now print an object directly from digital information – molds will just disappear. People have no idea yet what an incredible change in technology that is. And what that means for design. All design will become meta-design: objects can now be a range-of-objects like in a family or a species. Not one is the same, but they are similar enough to be recognised. They can be big on top, big in the middle, or big below. They can have many holes or just a few. But they will always be private, each lamp you buy is different from the other, it’s unique. – Lars Spuybroek

Lars Spuybroek has won several prizes and has exhibited all over the world, among them presentations at several Venice Biennales, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria & Albert in London and the Guggenheim Bilbao. He is a professor and the ventulett distinguished chair in architectural design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA.

Source: Unicahome

Lux Merx: Damned

This lampshade appears as a hovering mass of ornaments, opulent and bombastic. when viewed more closely it dissolves into single bodies, which are twisted in fear and seem to be frozen in mid-fall. their rhythmic order becomes slightly perplexing and finally renders the bodies an ornament. softly, the fleshy parts of the bodies, legs and stomachs reflect the light. because of the shadows the bodies cast on themselves, only parts of them appear in the foreground. only fragments of the lit interior of the lamp are distinguishable. the aspects of the lit core change dramatically whenever the observer changes his position. these movements of the observer transform the stiff bodies into dynamic objects. the association with the fall of the damned - a metaphor for guilt and punishment - gives the lamp a certain amount of ambivalence: is it a moralistic message, an act of formalism or both? the design of this lamp undermines several taboos imposed on design in the 20th century: it is figurative, ornamental and narrative.

Source: Unicahome

Bathsheba Grossman: Gyroid

Gyroid is the extremely unique creation of bathsheba grossman. Bathsheba Grossman began by getting a degree in mathematics from yale (1988), then changed course to get an art degree at the university of pennsylvania (1993). She studied sculptural principles and metalworking with erwin hauer and robert engman, mathematical sculptors who were both trained by Josef Albers.

After several years experience making bronze sculpture by traditional methods, she switched in 1998 to cad/cam and began designing sculpture digitally for production by 3d printing. since then she has been making sculpture using many technologies including lost-wax casting, electroforming, stereolithography, zcorp printing, and most recently prometal direct steel printing; along the way he also started protoshape, a 3d printing service bureau. She also designs artwork for subsurface laser etching in glass, and in that medium she has created a line of scientific images based in astronomy, molecular biology and mathematics, and a service for imaging protein structures that is used by most major pharmaceutical companies and many research centers.

Source: Unicahome

Patrick Jouin: OneShot

OneShot is a folding stool designed by Patrick Jouin. It’s also a smart trick: no axle, no screw, no spring or visible hinge. Only by virtue of gravity, a vertical bundle of polyamide rods fluidly unfolds to become a seat. The miracle lies in the technique of Selective Laser Sintering that allows the fabrication in just one shot of the seating surface, the legs and the hidden and integral articulations. OneShot is manufactured in the folded position, which thereby enables the creation of 15 pieces simultaneously in a machine whose size would normally barely contain 2 unfolded ones.

Source: Yanko Design

One & Co: Sequence.mgx

Consider the sequence.mgx bowl, designed by One & Co. Not only is it rectangular – something, we’re sure, that few bowls can lay claim to – but it also looks like something made by a ren faire blacksmith. It looks like this because materialise can make it look like this.

Sequence.mgx is made with rapid prototyping. The bowl was designed on 3D software and then built up, bit by bit, in a selective laser sintering machine, which uses a laser to fuse polyamide powder into whatever shape materialise wants. Rapid prototyping allows materialise to realize designs that would be difficult or impossible to make with other manufacturing processes, like the chain mail-like texture and topography of sequence.mgx.

Source: Unicahome