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3D printing “can produce up to 150 prosthetic eyes per hour”

News: British company Fripp Design and Research has developed 3D-printed prosthetic eyes that could be produced much faster than existing handmade versions, reducing the cost by 97 percent.

3D-printing can produce up to 150 prosthetic eyes per hour

Fripp Design and Research, which is also working on 3D-printed ears and noses for patients with facial disfigurements, has collaborated with Manchester Metropolitan University to develop ocular prosthetics that are 3D-printed in batches, with intricate coloured details including the iris and blood vessels already included.

Currently, prosthetic eyes are moulded in acrylic and painted by hand to match the patient’s eye colour. This process is time-consuming and expensive, whereas producing the eyes using a 3D printer enables up to 150 eyes to be made in an hour.

3D-printing can produce up to 150 prosthetic eyes per hour

“To hand-make a prosthetic eye takes between four and eight hours depending on the individual painting the eye,” the company’s founder Tom Fripp told Dezeen. “Because only one eye can be done at a time, the waiting time in the UK for an eye is approximately ten weeks. With our system we can 3D print up to 150 in one hour and post process approximately five per hour, each one different.”

All of the components are printed from powder in full colour using a Z-Corp 510 machine before the resulting form is encased in resin. Compared to the existing handmade production method, this helps to remove any variation in quality and significantly reduces the cost of each eye, which is currently up to £3000 in the UK.

3D-printing can produce up to 150 prosthetic eyes per hour

“Because each one is produced from the same system the consistency is the same and the cost is drastically reduced to approximately £100,” said Fripp.

By printing eyes in batches, each with a slightly different hue, Fripp pointed out that it is possible to accurately match the look of the prosthesis to the patient’s existing eye: “Although we have not perfected colour matching yet, because we can print so many in such a short space of time the colour change between each one is so slight that the chances of getting a good match is very good.”

The eyes are available in small, medium and large sizes and Fripp claimed that accurate reproduction of existing eyes is the next stage for the product’s development: “The technicality in customising an iris is very demanding and although we haven’t perfected it yet, we are working on it!”

3D-printing can produce up to 150 prosthetic eyes per hour

Speaking to Dezeen at the 3D Printshow in London earlier this month, Fripp said the project was at an advanced stage of development and should be ready to implement “within 12 months.”

He added that there had been strong interest from India, where less advanced surgical procedures result in a high number of patients losing their eyes. “Because of the high number of relatively poor individuals in the country, they tend to simply go without,” said Fripp “However, our system will allow them to purchase a prosthesis.”

Images are courtesy of Manchester Metropolitan University and Fripp Design and Research.

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Nike SB Lunar One Shot: A lightweight, data-driven skate shoe designed to maximize board feel and minimize break in time

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50 Free Registrations to Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014!

The Early Bird entries for the 2014 Red Dot Awards: Product Design is now open until 6 December 2013. However this editorial is to inform you more about the 50 Free Registrations made available to young designers. The so-called “Red Dot Young Professionals Application Day” is round the bend and if you think you are ready to be the “king (or queen) of the world”, then earmark the 11th of December 2013. On this date, career-starters have 24 hours to apply for one out of 50 free registrations.

In a bid to support product designers who are still finding their feet, the “Red Dot Young Professionals Application Day” was born. Last year, designers from 30 countries grabbed their chance and applied for the 50 free registrations within 24 hours and nine of them convinced the jury with the design quality of their products.

Bernhard Elsaesser goes down in the Hall of Fame for being the second young professional in the history of the Red Dot to win the highest award in the competition: Red Dot: Best of the Best for the vase “The attitude of the definite – the square”. Sounds exciting!

To sum it up, you not only get a free entry, but also the chance of winning the highest honor!

Designers who have obtained their academic qualifications within the past five years, have 24 hours to apply via the Red Dot website for one of the free registrations. The participants of the promotion will be drawn randomly.

Important Dates:

  • Early Bird: 6 December 2013
  • Regular: 28 January 2014
  • Latecomers: 5 February 2014

Young Professionals Application Day

  • 11 December 2013 – 24 hours – starting at midnight in the respective time zone

Jury session: February 2014
Awards ceremony: 7 July 2014
Special exhibition of the award-winning products: 8 July – 3 August 2014

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The A to Z project

New York agency Red Peak has rebranded local charity Free Arts NYC with a custom alphabet created by 45 leading designers and visual artists.

FANYC provides arts-based education and mentoring programmes for children and families in New York. Red Peak was asked to create a new identity and website for the charity, and decided on a system that would help generate some much-needed extra income and involve the artistic community.

45 creatives made a letter or character for free, including illustrator, designer and former ad man Bob Gill, graffiti artist and designer Eric Haze, typographer Tony di Spigna, book designer Carin Goldberg, Apple creative director Alan Dye and Julia Hoffman, creative director of MoMA’s in-house design team.

 

Fashion designers and visual artists also took part – Diane von Furstenberg made a D, Lawrence Weiner designed an ampersand and Harper’s Bazaar submitted an apostrophe.

The alphabet forms the basis of the new FANYC logo and the varying designs reflect its emphasis on supporting all forms of creativity: the charity’s strapline is ‘there are no mistakes in art’.

Individual prints of each letter were sold at an auction hosted by Harper’s Bazaar last week, which raised $20,000 for FANYC and prints will also be available to buy online at freeartsnyc.org

The alphabet has already been used on stationery, signage and even clocks at FANYC’s offices, and will be applied to a range of products over the next few months, including mugs, tote bags and calendars.

“Every dollar spent on rebranding was a dollar not going to an arts program to kids in NYC,” says Red Peak’s CEO, James Fox. “We needed to do this project on the very tightest of budgets and this in the end inspired the idea itself – we wanted to create a brand identity that not only cost zero dollars, but would generate income for Free Arts for many years to come,” he adds.

You can view the full alphabet at FANYC’s website. The charity has also published a short film on the making of the project and video interviews with Gill, di Spigna and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, who designed a question mark.

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Rineke Dijkstra, Laurie Simmons, Hong Hao Among Photographers Shortlisted for Prix Pictet

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Hong Hao, “My Things No. 1″ (2001-2002)

Back for its fifth go-round, the Prix Pictet has announced the eleven photographers shortlisted for the purse of 100,000 Swiss francs (approximately $110,000, at current exchange). The entry-by-nomination international photography competition sponsored by Swiss bank Pictet & Cie seeks to promote sustainability, and this year’s theme is consumption. Selected for the shortlist by a jury that includes previous winner Luc Delahaye, architect Wang Shu, curator Elisabeth Sussman, and Martin Roth, director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, are: Adam Bartos, Motoyuki Daifu, Rineke Dijkstra, Hong Hao, Mishka Henner, Juan Fernando Herrán, Boris Mikhailov, Abraham Oghobase, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekula (who passed away in August at the age of 62), and Laurie Simmons.
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Art tour in Nora her home

Bloesem Living | Art at La fete

 

Walking up the stairs in Nora's Amsterdam apartment is like walking into an art gallery. The home of this art director, mom and crafter is full with modern and contemporary art just the way I would like to see it in my own home. 

Nora and I met via Bloesem Kids … when she wrote me about her love craft projects … for the last year she has contributed many amazing and fun DIY tutorials. Last summer when I was in Amsterdam Nora and I met and she was just as wonderful as I had imagined her. 

But let's talk art / prints and where to find these kind of things online … Nora gave me some info per picture and I hope you will find the info useful. 

Image above you see on top art by Dutch painter Bob Bonies and Nora bought it on the Dutch Craigs List called 'Marktplaats'. Below is a picture of Rome made by Nora her own mom who is a very creative and artistic person herself Nora told me.  

Take a little tour with me after the break. 

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Left: Hiroshi Harada at Gallery De Vierde Dimensie.

Right side: Lynn Forbes from the UK … Nora bought it on Ebay

The little truck is by Han Bennink  at Gallery Kunst op Kamers.

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On the far left art above by Nora's mom and below from her father … yes Nora is lucky to have inherited some creative genes. 

The famous 'Kannen' are by  Klaas Gubbels which she found via Steen Drukkerij in Amsterdam. And on the right is a woodprint by Arjenne Fakkel.

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Left top art is by  Robert and Jeanne Schaap but unfortunately not more info to give … The little frame below is by Andreas Brandt  and Nora and her husband bought it a small gallery Spielvogel  in Berlin. The print with green squares is by Gunther Tuzina and Nora got it via eBay. But Slewe in the Netherlands has some of artwork in their collection too. 

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Just a vintage barometer Nora got form a family member but thought painting it red would make more sencse … I love how it turned out, you too?

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Two by Noël Drieghe that they bought in Antwerp at gallery "kunst in huis". Below 'the table' is an illustration by Nora's mom again .. inspired by the work of Klaas Gubbels. 

And next to it is a lino=cut called " het thee builtje" van Beatrice Kluivers uit '78. 

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Above again Bob Bonies. and below 

And Nora's list of artist she admires goes on … here just some more names and links to get you inspired too… Károly Keserü , Ko Oosterkerk and Paul van Rijswijk at Luycks Gallery. 

hanks you Nora for sharing all the info with us!! You definitely helped me to get started and hopefully soon I will be able to hang some artwork in our home.

What kind of art do you have in your home? Do you have any favorites. Please leave a comment and share your ideas, tips and suggestions with us!

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All images were taken by me, Irene.

 

.. Nora Vrba

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Mockery of Kanye West’s design ambition is “racist” says African-American activist

News: the scornful response to Kanye West‘s recent pronouncements on architecture is part of the “long history of making fun of black people” in America, according to an African-American design student organisation.

“There’s a long history in the United States of making fun of black people that actually make it,” said Héctor Tarrido-Picart, co-president of the African American Student Union (AASU) at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

He told Dezeen: “We read it as him being mocked for being an ambitious black man.”

Tarrido-Picart made the comments after his organisation spent two hours discussing the lack of black representation in architecture with rap star West, who visited Harvard Graduate School of Design last week and gave an impromptu speech to students. “I really do believe that the world can be saved through design,” said West in the address.

The speech was the latest in a series of pronouncements on architecture and design by West, who has long been interested in the subjects but has recently started to engage with leading creatives, commissioning graphic artist Peter Saville to design a logo for him and hiring architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture to design a temporary cinema.

Kanye West at Harvard Instagram photo by joseramonsierra
Kanye West at Harvard Graduate School of Design (photo by joseramonsierra). Main image: West with members of the AASU (photo by Kim Kardashian)

West also spoke of his passion for design in a recent interview with The New York Times in June and during an interview with BBC Radio 1 in September, in which he spoke of “going to the Louvre, going to furniture exhibits and understanding that, trying to open up and do interviews with this, learning more about architecture”.

However West also expressed frustration at the opposition he has faced: “Taking one thousand meetings, attempting to get backing to do clothing and different things like that. Like, getting no headway whatsoever.”

Tarrido-Picart believes the ridicule and resistance is due to the “remnants of the racist society that we have grown up in,” which prevent African-Americans crossing over into “higher realms of culture” such as art, design and architecture.

He pointed to figures from the American Institute of Architects showing that only one percent of registered US architects are African-American, despite making up over 12 percent of the total population.

“Why [does] racism still exist in an era where Obama is president and cultural figures like Jay Z and Kanye West create culture,” asked Tarrido-Picart. “But when it comes to trying to expand their creativity to other fields, [they] run into walls that could not be better described than remnants of the racist society that we have grown up in?”

West visited Harvard Graduate School of Design while in Boston for a concert, following an invitation from the AASU, who invited the star to meet them following West’s BBC Radio 1 interview.

“I have reached the glass ceiling – as a creative person, as a celebrity,” West said in the interview, adding: “When I say that it means I want to do product. I am a product person. Not just clothing but water bottle design, architecture, everything that you could think about. And I’ve been at it for 10 years, and I look around and I say, ‘Hey wait a second – there’s no one around here in this space that looks like me’.”

Tarrido-Picart said: “We were struck first by the depth of knowledge that Kanye West actually had on architecture and second, because of the real question that he raised, which is [that] when you’re a very clearly a very talented and creative person and you choose to expand that creativity to new fields, you run into a wall. And that wall isn’t a wall that’s revolving around your creativity but a wall that’s revolving around the colour of your skin.”

He added: “That resonated a lot with us and we decided to send out a personal letter to Kanye West in which we expressed the same concerns and reverberated and resonated with what he was saying in that interview.”

Kanye West at Harvard Instagram photo by dashamikic
Kanye West at Harvard Graduate School of Design (photo by dashamikic)

“He agreed with us in terms of us in identifying with the fact that he was a very creative person and wanted to start creativity in the realm of design and architecture, and he thought that the fact that the colour of our skin plays a very limiting factor,” said Tarrido-Picart. “It’s not just about under-representation but also an active question that racism is very much alive in the United States.”

“He questioned us about what culture is and trying to surpass that by going into higher realms of culture, so art, design, architecture,” he continued. “He sees that as the natural next step.”

The AASU has signed a non-disclosure agreement with West so cannot reveal the precise nature of their discussions with the star, but it is understood that they agreed to work together to raise awareness of, and tackle, the under-representation of minorities in American architecture.

“We’re going to try and maintain an active discussion with Kanye,” Tarrido-Picart said. “He expressed a deep interest in this being something that is not just short term, but actually long term in terms of actually shaping the future of landscape of what design and culture is going to be, not only in the United States but around the world.”

He added: “What we hope to do is to raise the question that Kanye has [raised in a] very serious manner in our industry.”

Below is a statement issued by the AASU following its meeting with West:


Why the African American Student Union met with Kanye West at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

This past summer, members of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s African American Student Union (AASU) were stirred by a series of interviews with Kanye West referencing his growing interest in design.

Mr. West’s very public frustration with the limits experienced by Black designers and artists energized and excited the group, prompting a series of internal conversations. Framing these discussions was the fact that only 1% of licensed architects in the United States identifies as being African-American. We discussed how this severe under-representation of African Americans in producing the built environment which have a range of effects upon our collective lives.

Subsequent to these discussions, the AASU decided to reach out to Mr. West.

We were tremendously excited that Mr. West, well-aware of these challenges, desired to meet us as well. This Sunday, he met with the AASU privately to discuss how we might pursue meaningful change together. Mr. West is an artist at the center of this generation’s cultural production and shares in our group’s optimism that transdisciplinary design practice can – as he stated Sunday – impact the world in positive ways. One of these ways is by encouraging the development and legitimacy of African American designers in their professional and academic practices. We are fortunate that the GSD has provided us with a platform in which this dialogue can occur.

We look forward to continuing this conversation with Mr. West, and through these efforts, we aim to catalyse a more inclusive design culture.

Sincerely,
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design – African American Student Union

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