Long Island’s Sag Harbor, a quiet Hamptons escape, has long maintained a community that holds history and preservation paramount. For the last seven years, a project has been underway to meet local standards and reinvent one of the village’s iconic structures. …
News: the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has acquired Solid C2 by Patrick Jouin, the first item of furniture to be 3D-printed in one piece.
Created in 2004 by French designer Patrick Jouin in collaboration with digital manufacturers .MGX by Materialise, the Solid C2 chair was made from intersecting ribbons of material that ignored furniture-making traditions in favour of the freeform shapes that 3D printing allows.
“The Solid chair was the first furniture piece made with the SLS [selective laser sintering] technique in one piece,” says the museum’s curator of industrial design Ingeborg de Roode. “It clearly shows the possibilities of this technique to make very complicated structures.”
The museum also holds two One_Shot.MGX stools by Jouin from 2006, five Snotty Vases by Marcel Wanders from 2001 and a Miss Piggy ring by Ted Noten from 2009.
Here’s some more information from .MGX by Materialise:
.MGX is thrilled to announce that a red Solid C2 chair by Patrick Jouin has been selected to join the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Patrick Jouin is one of the major protagonists of contemporary design on the French and international scene. In 2004, Jouin first became aware of 3D Printing which until then, had only been used for small ‘scale models’ in plastic. Together with .MGX, Jouin took the entire process to a previously unheard of level, creating forms that were once thought impossible to produce. The Solid C2 chair was among these first designs and is reminiscent of blades of grass waving in the wind and weaving together.
Founded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum is a leading modern and contemporary art museum with a collection featuring some of the greatest artists of this century and the last, including: Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollack, and Vincent van Gogh.
Les 2 artistes Kenji Nakayama and Christopher Hope investissent les rues de différentes villes comme Cambridge ou Boston en créant de superbes pancartes typographiées avec le même texte que celles que possédaient les sans-abris. Un projet très touchant à découvrir en images.
News: designer Janne Kyttanen has created a range of 3D-printed shoes for women that can be made at home overnight to be worn the next day.
Kyttanen, creative director at printing giant 3D Systems, has created four different styles of wedge shoes that can be made using 3D Systems’ CubeX printer.
Consumers can download the free digital files for the shoes, select the size they require and print them in a colour of their choice.
The project is intended to attract new audiences to 3D printing, which has tended to be dominated by products aimed at men.
“I don’t know what it is with women and shoes, but I like it,” said Kyttanen, in a press release straight out of Mad Men. “I would like it even better if my girlfriend could wear a different pair every single day. Today this is a reality. Women can print this first collection of shoes overnight and wake up every morning to a new pair.”
Each shoe takes upwards of six or seven hours to print, meaning a pair could be produced overnight, assuming two shoes could be printed simultaneously on one printer.
The digital files contain data for sizes 35 to 40 and customers can choose between the Macedonia style, which is riddled with holes, the Facet style, Leaf style and plain vanilla Classic style. Further size and customisation options will be added in future.
“Janne is taking the convenience of online shopping to a whole new level,” says 3D Systems. “There is no longer a need to spend hours in department stores looking for the perfect shoes to match that party dress. And if you want to get in the fashion design game yourself Janne has created the Class Shoes as a basic file you can add your own style to.”
Kyttanen is also working on 3D printed food. “Food is the next frontier,” he told us earlier this year. “One day we will be able to 3D-print a hamburger.”
John Legend a dévoilé récemment le clip du morceau « Made to Love ». Réalisé par Daniel Sannwald et sous la direction artistique de Yoann Lemoine, ce clip d’une grande beauté propose de découvrir les formes et les couleurs que prennent l’amour et la rencontre entre deux êtres à travers des modélisations 3D.
Focus sur « Eterna » : une fausse bande-annonce réalisée par Vadzim Khudabets réunissant des images issues de nombreux films d’action comme Thor, Watchmen, Tron Legacy, Pacific Rim, Avatar, 300, ou encore Spiderman. Un rendu réussi, très complet et dynamique à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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Etudiant à la Design Academy d’Eindhoven, Michiel van Gageldonk a imaginé cette « Globe chair ». Avec un design très réussi, cette création alliant beauté et confort propose un dossier de forme sphérique. Un projet à découvrir en images sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article.
German designer Philipp Beisheim has designed a stool and side table that you inflate with a hand pump like a rubber dinghy (+ movie).
The side table features a wooden top supported by an inflatable base, while the stool has a blow-up seat resting on wooden legs.
You can watch Beisheim pumping up the side table in the movie at the top of this post.
The blow-up parts of the products are made from a durable synthetic rubber called Hypalon, commonly used to make inflatable boats.
Beisheim took the side table to last month’s Blickfang designworkshop, where he told Dezeen: “It blows up in seconds. The material is a silicon-based fabric, which is actually used in the industrial area. It has a really strong structure, which makes the table a functional object.”
“Making inflatable furniture allows the user to interact with the object in a different way by blowing it up,” Beisheim said. “My inflatable furniture would be useful outdoors, camping, for temporary events or people with a small balcony without much space.”
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