BlockFace is an easy-to-use modular typography printing kit designed by graphic artist Will Mower. The kit can be used to combine stamps and construct letterforms, design typographic posters and cards, and explore the joys of printmaking. BlockFace provides the opportunity to escape from screens and explore symbols, pattern-making, and typography…
Matt Holmes is a designer maker, whose work explores the point where digital technologies and heritage crafts collide. His practice currently revolves around printing presses, and the craft behind the history of letterpress. Matt employs 3D printing and CNC to build his own printing presses, printed typefaces and printing plates,…
The 3D-printed home is the proof of a concept that sustainable homebuilding is and will be a possibility. Creating sustainable homes as well as safer and affordable solution means that places like Haiti and rural Salvador can be provided with homes. The printer, which is called the Vulcan has been…
Originally beginning as a design experiment, Thomas Wirtz’s By the way: typography and material behaviour has intelligently evolved into a modular system involving two main components, the self-made typography produced via 3D printing and the variety of physical processes which strikingly react with the internet jargon abbreviations. The short film…
Designed and created by artist, civil engineer and pioneer of the pancake printing machine, Miguel Valenzuela, PancakeBot™, started off as a ‘whimsical dream to make a “Pancake Machine” out of LEGO’ for his daughters. Feeling inspired after reading an article about a pancake stamping machine in Make Magazine, Miguel developed…
Distortion of digital drawings and classical Greek sculpture are the two contrasting elements used to inform Israeli fashion designer Noa Raviv’s remarkable Hard Copy collection.
German born distinguished high-end leather goods purveyors MCM have dropped a particularly exciting collection for pre-fall 2015. Staying true to there beliefs in being an ever changing brand with reinvention being a constant, the new ‘Bionic’ collection takes inspiration from the future as they reinterpret classic pieces through a three-dimensional…
Chase Me may seem like another gorgeous animated movie at first glance but what makes it different from other animated films is the fact that French animator and filmmaker Gilles-Alexander Deschaud had spent two years 3D printing 2,500 parts in order to create this animation. Chase Me has certainly been…
LIX is the world’s smallest 3D printing pen in the world, which allows you to push your drawing creativity into another dimension (excuse the pun). They have launched via Kickstarter which has a goal of £30,000 but have completely smashed this target, reaching over £600k with 21 days left of…
3D printing studio Modla has teamed up with London-based artist Damilola Odusote to create the most incredible 3D sculpture I have ever seen! Inspired by the iconic Nike Air Force 1 kicks, Damilola created a dope 2D illustration turning the shoe into an entire world. After Damilola handed the illustration…
Solid Concepts, a world leader in 3D printing, has manufactured the world’s first 3D printed metal gun using a laser sintering process and powdered metals. The semi-automatic pistol is based on the classic 1911 design and has already successfully fired over 500 rounds of bullets without falling to pieces. It…