Concerto for Three MakerBots

The versatility of desktop 3D printers can be seen (and heard!) in the video below. For a bit more background info check this out: Crashspace

Graffiti Analysis: 3D

Evan Roth and Graffiti Analysis take the art of tagging to a new dimension with motion tracking technology and 3D Printing.

This project was part of the Street and Studio exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wein.  Roth collaborated with alocal Viennese graffiti writer and had the GA sculpture printed in ABS plastic. Graffiti motion [...]

PROJECTiONE fabricates Radiance

PROJECTiONE is a student collaborative based at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA. They engage “cooperative relationships between analog and digital in design and fabrication.”  PROJECTiONE  recently completed a project called, Radiance, featured in the video below.

Radiance (detail), PROJECTiONE.com

Donna Sink, an Adjunct Professor at Ball State  involved in the project [...]

Iron Man 2's 'Secret Sauce'

A little something for the 3D Printing crowd . . .

Maybe the most cutting-edge facet ofIron Man 2‘s production was the real-life fabrication of the suits. Using 3-D printers, the film’s production company, Legacy Effects, was able to have artists draw an art concept–and then physically make that concept in just four [...]

Video Solid: taking video into an analog dimension

Video Solid is an investigation to locate an analog for the medium of video. In this instance a video is passed through custom software, ultimately to be turned into a video-still sculpture by a rapid-prototyping 3D printer.

Breadboard works with NextFab Studio to co-develop creative programming that gives community members access to 3D Printers and other new [...]

New Architecture of Phase Change Computer-Assisted Ice Construction

NextFab founder, Evan Malone, co-created the Fab@Home 3D printing project we referenced in a recent post. At McGill University they are using a Fab@Home unit to 3D print ice!

New Architecture of Phase Change:Computer-Assisted Ice Construction

3D printing ice [...]

Breadboard & NextFab get some local press

The University City Science Center is a research park unto itself, and as such is host to tons of fabulous organizations. One of those is Breadboard.

Read more here.

sample objects fabricated @ [...]

The disruptive future of printing

A nice article at http://news.bbc.co.uk on the exciting future of 3D printing.

“3D printing will soon come up against laws made in a world of factories and machine tools, and the battle is likely to be even more intense than that over music and films” –Bill Thompson

Evan Malone, founder of NextFab Studio ( Breadboard’s programming [...]

David Bowen’s art of the onion

This Fall (2010) EKG will be exhibiting new work by David Bowen.  David’s Growth Modeling Device is currently featured in Design by Performance at Centrum voor actuele kunst en vormgeving Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium.

Bowen recently won grand prize in the art division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival. In conjunction with this award his work was featured in an [...]

the real 3D revolution

“We had David Hockney in here recently and he was gobsmacked”

A good article on 3D printing [...]