3D Printing Fashion

Fashion designer Irina Tosheva has turned to the Zortrax M200 to create bespoke fashion accessories and ornaments that have taken her designs to a higher plane. At SS16, the fashion show in Kosovo that pays homage to the vibrant Eastern European design fraternity, Tosheva stood out from the crowd. She did so with a scintillating combination of interesting designs and integrated technology. She had something different to offer. She had a 3D printer. Even haute couture counts the cost Even in the world of high fashion, designers are limited in terms of materials. Truly bespoke buttons, fastenings and more cost a vast amount when they’re produced by traditional methods. Ornate additions to outfits, meanwhile, add a layer of complexity that often means the designer rules them out. A 3D printer, though, can produce bespoke items at a low cost. That means the designer can just focus on breathtaking designs. They…    read more 

The new line of contemporary 3D printed jewelry will be previewed at the September edition of the Parisian fair Maison and Objet. Designed by Omri Revesz, these beautiful 3D printed pieces are inspired by mathematics, astonishing poetry and the paradoxes and illusions of perception. Penrose: mathematics, patterns and poetry Tenacious geometric structures become vibrant patterns, rigid schemes materialise nonchalantly to generate a game of inlaid work that combines artificial with natural, rules with creativity, almost simulating the harmonies hidden behind our everyday lives. Penrose, the new collection of 3D printed jewelry created by the Israeli designer Omri Revesz for Maison 203, recaptures the tiling invented by Roger Penrose and Robert Aman in 1974: a pattern of geometric shapes that combine two rhombus shapes of different sizes to create an endless pattern. A mathematical structure interpreted by the designer to become a platform for an infinite number of design possibilities. The…    read more 

Advancements in the 3D printing industry seem to have no limits. Everyday, the technology is becoming more and more accessible to the public and more and more groundbreaking in the science, aerospace and sports industries, just to name a few. Since 3D printing technology’s wild successes in technical industries, we are also seeing it applied to more creative industries as well, such as art, childhood education, and jewelry making. We here at 3DPI decided to highlight some services that offer beautiful pieces of jewelry at the click of a button. Read more below. If you find a gorgeous piece of jewelry or a fun service that you want to start using immediately, the MiiCraft 125 3D printer, which can be purchased on iMakr, is perfect for printing intricate, beautiful designs like those that follow! Ready for Download & Purchase Quick and easy designs available at the click of a button, the following…    read more 

Lockheed Martin, the aerospace company, have filed a patent for a new kind of 3D printer. The patent, filed on April 4 by inventor David G. Findley, describes a new way of 3D printing which would use a pre-ceramic polymer and nanoparticle filler to create synthetic diamond objects of pretty much any shape you can dream up. Any shape! I wanted a diamond T-Rex, but sadly my Google image search wasn’t up to the task. Image: Crystal Fox   “[The] method includes depositing alternating layers of a ceramic powder and a pre-ceramic polymer dissolved in a solvent. Each layer of the pre-ceramic polymer is deposited in a shape corresponding to a cross section of an object. The alternating layers of the ceramic powder and the pre-ceramic polymer are deposited until the layers of the pre-ceramic polymer form the shape of the object. The method includes heating the deposited ceramic powder and pre-ceramic…    read more 

Remember the M-Jewelry Kickstarter from the beginning of this week? Three days into the project and Makex have smashed their initial goal, with funding for the M-Jewelry having already doubled to $105,774. Going above and beyond their monetary targets has now become something of a trend for Makex, as the M-Jewelry follows in the path of their 2014 Kickstarter fund for the M-One desktop DLP printer, which eventually closed out at $80,481 above their initial $100,000 goal. Example of the M-Jewely custom made rings that are being offered to backers. Image via: Makex on Kickstarter With that said, the M-Jewelry seems to be on track to better even this earlier and substantial amount as there are still 27 days to go, success that surely serves as testament to the quality of Makex products, and an ability to identify and serve one of the most demanding niches in the 3D printing…    read more