The Send to Print / Print to Send exhibition has been running at the Aram Gallery on Drury Lane in London since January 13. It is exhibiting a range of avant garde 3D print designs. The exhibition includes works from the fields of architecture, industrial design, fashion, and product design.
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The Aram Gallery uses this exhibition as a way to examine how designers’ processes are developing to accommodate new technological advances. We offer our visitors an idea of what 3D Printing is, and how it is being contemporaneously used. This exhibition is not intended as an exhaustive overview, but a cross-disciplinary pick and mix of examples.
Embracing the sculptural beauty of machines in motion
Hot on the heels of this year’s Best of the Blog in Art post comes this mesmerising clip from filmmaker Ralph Steiner’sMechanical Principles, a 1930’s masterpiece in which the inner workings of all kinds of devices are revealed.
Taking a moment to appreciate the sculptural qualities of decidedly practical devices unveils the poetry inherent in their movements. It’s quite hypnotic, and well worth sitting back to contemplate (and indeed enjoy) over your morning coffee.
Take a moment to step back and see the world a little differently with this selection of ten memorable works of art that appeared on the Ponoko blog during 2011.
From unique perspectives on everyday objects to different ways of capturing and expressing movement, join us to explore how artists continue to use digital manufacturing technologies in new and exciting ways.
The mesmerising motion of professional dancers and martial artists is captured in this intriguing project by Mathew Schwartz. Data from the sinuous movements is 3D printed before being cast in bronze, giving a unique perspective on human movement that would surely have Muybridge’s nod of approval.
Cardboard is a *great* material for prototyping your design and making it in another material later. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use cardboard in a final product. Check out these 20 inspirational designs made from good old fashioned recyclable cardboard.
1. Corrugated coardboard artwork
Artist Mark Langan creates stunning works of art entirely out of cardboard — from original gemoetric designs, to masterpiece interpretations, to corporate logos and signage.
2. Kranium cardboard helmet outperforms traditional helmets
This student project Anirudha Surabhi demonstrates the impact resistance of corrugated cardboard. His Kranium cardboard helmet stood up to four times the amount of impact withstood by typical polystyrene shells. (Video of a DIY arduino powered test in the original post.)
Striking even at first glance, this installation from London-based artist Zadok Ben David features 12,000 steel plants embedded in a thin layer of sand.
Titled Blackfield, the forms are modelled from vintage botanical illustrations, and at first appear as a uniform forest of black that stands out in stark contrast to the smooth white sand.
Yet there is a surprise in store… as the viewer moves to the other side, the plants are revealed in a myriad of colours.
For those fortunate enough to be in Seoul before February 2012, you can see the installation in person at Artclub 1563.
Click through for some more photos of this stunning installation. (more…)
Shadow Casting Panels and Shadow Clouds create mind-blowing optical illusions
The latest works from Swiss artists Drzach&Suchy extend on their earlier explorations into light and shade using 3d printed objects.
The approach is deceptively simple, and follows the straightforward observation that the shadow cast by an object depends not only on the form of the object itself, but also on the direction and intensity of the light source. With this methodology in hand, the same object can have a totally different appearance simply by changing the lighting conditions.
In the piece titled Conversation, the image displayed is either a portrait of Albert Einstein or the saucy smirk of Marilyn Monroe, depending on where the light hits the surface.
(lit from the upper left… …and from the upper-right)
Click through for some short clips of these Shadow Casting Panels in action.
The wheels of the humble pushie have been utilised for Persistence of Vision optical displays before, usually with an array of LEDs flickering a pattern as the bike rolls along.
London-based animator Katy Beveridge took a different approach when she used hand cut paper to generate dynamic moving patterns on her bike wheels. A fancy, limited edition laser cut version is available on her Etsy store.
Styled on the very early phenakistoscopes, the animation is only visible when viewed through a camera. This is because of the way that the eye perceives motion, as the technique relies on the refresh rate between frames to create an illusion of animated movement.
A comment on Katy’s blog suggested attaching a strobing LED light to the forks of the bicycle, thus creating the required flicker for the animation to be visible to the naked eye. Until a solution like this is incorporated, Katy’s novel laser cut wheel patterns will only really come to life on-screen.
Earlier this month Miami was invaded by celebrities, gallerists, museum directors, designers, and lots of rich people for the 10th annual Art Basel Miami Beach.
This international contemporary art fair has spawned countless satellite fairs, events, launches, exhibitions, and parties. I stopped in Midtown Miami’s Design District to check out one them: Graffiti Gone Global.
Now in it’s fifth year, GGG was developed by restaurant entrepreneur Shimon Bokovza to celebrate urban culture.
The statement piece of the show was a cumulous cloud looking aluminum structure entitled ‘Labyrs Frisae’ by architect and designer Marc Fornes. Although I assume the 256 sheets of metal were CNC cut, the aesthetic is in line with what The Economist calls the “organic look” of 3D printed designs.
After a career in the medical IT field, Otto Gunther had decided to dedicate some time to more creative pursuits.
When he first came across Ponoko, Otto started out designing and making a range of lasercut items like jewelry, garden markers, and coasters. “I think making a coaster design is a contractual obligation when signing up for Ponoko,” he joked. (Ponoko does indeed have a step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to design and make a lasercut coaster.)
“But none of these ended up satisfying my creative itch,” he says. “Without realizing it, I was so focused on trying to come up with something that would be commercially viable, I hadn’t bothered to ask myself what I wanted to be creating. It was when I decided to design for myself instead, that I was inspired to start creating the art that you see today.”
And what we see today is a series of original artworks that takes inspiration from the idea of movement through geometry.
Otto has so far created 3 works entitled “Radial”, “Radiant”, and “Radiate” which are available at his Etsy store ARTbyGUNTHER.
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