Digital Design and fabrication

Including all life in designThe city is a shelter for all life, not just humans. Urban Reef questions the human relationship with nature: it is not to control, deny or fix the environment, but rather to stimulate its diversity by creating habitats that give room for spontaneous growth.

To liv

Via Amleto Picerno Ceraso

"The ethos of bioMATTERS is to collaborate with living systems and promote bio-circular approaches to design and biofabrication as an alternative to modern industrial design and manufacturing processes, which consume high amounts of energy and natural resources. We merge 3D prinitng and computational design strategies with living systems innoculation and growth..."

Read the full article at: www.augmented-architectures.com

Via Amleto Picerno Ceraso

Porifera is a new jewelry collection by Nervous System inspired by the forms of deep-sea glass sponges and made in a new 3D-printed ceramic material. It is the result of two years of material exper…

Via Amleto Picerno Ceraso

Bone grafting could eventually become obsolete.

Via Alessio Erioli

Sliperiet, Umeå Arts Campus has developed a new type of 3D printer that features increased printing flexibility at a lower cost

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A team of researchers at MIT have developed a system for designing multi-material objects that it hopes will do for 3D printing what Photoshop did for graphic design.

Via Andrea Graziano, Manuel Muehlbauer

Stratasys has recently unveiled two new pieces of game-changing additive manufacturing technology: the Infinite-Build 3D Demonstrator and the Roboti

Via Alessio Erioli

Israeli company MICRON3DP is hoping to shatter 3D printing expectations with its innovative glass 3D printer, capable of high resolution printing and layer thicknesses of as little as 100 microns.
Via Kalani Kirk Hausman, Growthobjects

Chromatose is a series of responsive 3d printed synthetic organisms grown at the intersection of the digital and natural worlds. See more at www.markwilsondesign.co.nz…

Via Andrea Graziano, Alessio Erioli

Adidas has announced that it is ready to begin commercial production of footwear at a robot-staffed factory in Germany. The so-called "Speedfactory" in Ansbach will apparently allow the firm to produce more shoes, with greater precision and with new designs.

The 4,600-sq m (49,500 sq ft) Ansbach facility was set up as a pilot in December last year, allowing Adidas to test both the new manufacturing process and a new production model. The automation, it says, allows production to be brought "to where the consumer is," presumably due the the virtual elimination of staffing costs.

Once up and running, the facility will be operated by Adidas' strategic partner Oechsler Motion. In addition to being able to produce goods "faster than ever before," the factory will help to reduce shipping emissions and the use of adhesives, the firm says.

The first pairs of footwear to be produced at the Speedfactory will be revealed later this year, with large-scale production due to begin in 2017. A second Speedfactory is being planned for the US.

Via Wildcat2030

Just like a caterpillar, the 3D Cocooner spins delicate lightweight structures freely in space. With the help of a high-speed handling system, the spinnere

Via Alessio Erioli

Dal riciclo dei rifiuti industriali, i ricercatori dell'ETH hanno ottenuto una schiuma isolante adatta alla stampa 3D totalmente riciclabile

Via Amleto Picerno Ceraso

See how 3D Systems' Janne Kyttanen utilizes the complex, optimized structures found only in nature with his latest creation: a 3D printed lattice structure lounger chair. Created in a single print on the ProX 950, this lounger represents the perfect marriage of form and function. The chair's optimized design is only one example of how 3D printing can reduce material usage, create lighter weight components and free designers to create whatever they can imagine.

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Via Alessio Erioli

Alexander Reed is a shoemaker dedicated to discovering new methods and tools to improve his craft. In following old shoemaker tradition, he is traveling the world…

Via Growthobjects

Adam Savage gets up close with the one-of-a-kind 3D-printed endoskeleton Weta Workshop made for the upcoming Ghost in the Shell. Chatting with Weta Worksho

Via Alessio Erioli

A prototype 3D bioprinter that can create totally functional human skin has been developed by scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and BioDan Group in Spain. The skin has been used to treat burns as well as traumatic and surgical wounds in a large number of patients in Spain, according to the scientists.

The system provides two processes.

Autologous skin (from the patient’s own cells to generate human collagen) for therapeutic use, such as in the treatment of severe burns, instead of the animal collagen used in other methods. The researchers have applied for approval by various European regulatory agencies to guarantee that the skin that is produced is adequate for use in transplants on burn patients and on those with other skin problems.

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TOP 10 3D printing stories of 2016 - continuing our annual review of the year’s BIG stories, we round up the 3D printing projects that caught our eye in 2016.

Via Alessio Erioli

Via Amleto Picerno Ceraso

Via Amleto Picerno Ceraso

Completed in 1970 in Oslo, Norway. Though architectural history is replete with bricks, stones, and steel, there is no rule that states that architecture must be ‘solid’. Sverr

Via Alessio Erioli