designoftheweek

This week’s selection is the incredible “LUNA” by Stephanie Lange and Brook Cronin. 

This week’s selection is the amazing set of 3D printed wildflowers by artist Darlene Farris-LaBar.

This week’s selection is the incredible 3D print of Paul McCartney done by the folks from aye aye labs. 

This week’s selection is Monad Studio’s incredible 2-string Piezoelectric Violin.

This week’s selection is the LED Light Stand by Ivan Zhurba. 

This week’s selection is Doug Vitarelli’s collection of 3D printed emojis. 

This week’s selection is the amazing Jeri Sculpture by 3D artist James Stewart.

This week’s selection is the very interesting “Dog’s Game” by Cults 3D designer Empezando Diseño.

This week’s selection is the Fork Cable Organizer by CGTrader contributor Tosh Sayama. 

This week’s selection is the Second Life Mug by LeFabShop.

This week’s selection is YouMagine contributor TimeLapse21’s simple Bottle Tap. 

This week’s selection is “The Greatest Case” by Kyle Staebell and Cameron Naramore.

This week’s selection is the Leonard Nimoy Memorial Print, by Thingiverse designer Geoff.W of Australia. 

This week’s selection is Emmanuel Carrillo’s curious Ozo Bear. 

This week’s selection is the Shopping Cart Token by Sweden-based Creative Tools.

This week’s selection is artist Giuseppe Randazzo’s meticulous Stone Fields. 

This week’s selection is David Hagemann’s multi-piece skeleton model. 

This week’s selection is John Edmark’s amazing Fibonacci Zoetrope sculptures. 

This week’s selection is the frightening Dragon Doorhandle by Kai Bracher. 

This week’s selection is the practical eSherpa electrically driven trolley by Switzerland-based Ralf Naumann. 

This week’s selection is the beautiful Saturn’s Wanderer by Professor Neri Oxman. 

This week’s selection is the delicate “Containing Air 101g12” sculpture by Robert Krawczyk. 

This week’s selection is an amazing graffiti tag modeled by artist Ben Normally.

This week’s selection is the Lament Configuration.

This week’s selection is the very simple Filament Clip by Bertjan Walker. 

This week’s selection is Martin Figeac’s “Europe Map puzzle with Great Britain”. 

This week’s selection is Jeremy Mallin’s Nautilus. 

This week’s selection is the colorful Brazilian Blue capeoria dancer sculpture by artist James Stewart. 

This week’s selection is Evan Kuester’s Ivania 2, a prosthetic arm.

This week’s selection is Danny Van Ryswyk’s amazing White Rabbit Figurine. 

This week’s selection is Sophie Kahn’s eerie Prodromes series.

This week’s selection is a series of fractal forms by digital sculptor Michael Winstone. 

This week’s selection is the 3D Printed Picnic by INC Architecture and Design. 

This week’s selection is “Cash” by Scott Frank.

This week’s selection is the very cool Big Mouth Amp. 

This week’s selection is the striking “Collision” by Berlin-based artists Andrzej Wojtas Jendrek and Ewelina Aleksandrowicz.

This week’s selection is the amazing DIY Material Testing Machine by YouMagine designer Arjan. 

This week’s selection is freelance 3D artist Andrew Jerez’s “Unholy Cross”.

This week’s selection is Matthew Amey’s beautiful Octopus pendant. 

This week’s selection is Neil Degrasse Tyson – Badass by the anonymous Shapeways designer, TheInternets. 

This week’s selection is the St Christopher medallion by jeweler Chris Parry. 

This week’s selection is the very simple, yet powerful 4-way, 3/4” PVC Connector by Thingiverse contributor Jason Powell.

This week’s selection is the Gemini Chaise Lounge, by 3D designer Neri Oxman. 

This week’s selection is Hannah Soukup’s beautiful “Insides” neck piece.

This week’s selection is the incredibly detailed Mazzo di Fiori by noted 3D print artist Joshua Harker. 

This week’s selection is an unusual hybrid 3D printed piece, Stuck Together Pieces by Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg of Monad Studio. 

This week’s selection is Antonis Kiourktsis’ elegant Inmotion figurine. 

This week’s selection is an articulated doll by digital sculptor Ryan Kittleson in collaboration with artist Elizabeth Shupe. 

This week’s selection is Michiel Cornelissen’s Hatch for Eyewear Kit. It’s a frame for lenses, but unlike any you’ve likely seen before. 

This week’s selection is the the P6*6 120 Pinhole Camera by Todd Schlemmer. It definitely looks like a camera and indeed if you print the parts and assemble them you can actually capture real images using standard 120 analog film. 

This week’s selection is Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz’s Forms in Nature. This work uses a technique we’ve not seen previously: using a centrally illuminated 3D printed structure to cast shadows on the walls of a room. Don’t believe us? Just check out the image above.    The artists say:    Forms in Nature is… Continue reading Design of the Week: Forms in Nature

This week’s selection is Dotsan’s 3D Lying Kitten. It’s a wireframe version of a kitten, and we apologize profusely to readers for not selecting a kitten as the Design of the Week previously.    The 3D Lying Kitten is a simple design, but it works best when you have several placed together as in the… Continue reading Design of the Week: 3D Lying Kitten

This week’s selection is Madeline Gannon’s Reverberating Across the Divide project, a 3D printed, custom-fitted decorative collar.    Gannon, a doctoral student studying generative fabrication and computational design in the CMU School of Architecture, developed a technique for generating this collar using a combination of computational and manual processes.      Please watch the video… Continue reading Design of the Week: Reverberating Across the Divide

This week’s selection is Quantum Object #1 by sculptor Frederik De Wilde. It’s a trippy piece we first noticed at this year’s London 3D Printshow, where it was on display among many other spectacular pieces.    Visually, it’s a plane with drips extending in opposite directions, defying gravity in two different directions. But why is… Continue reading Design of the Week: Quantum Object #1

This week’s selection is Claire Thompson’s Shades of Grey. It’s a fascinating work that is both smooth and two-tone. Perfectly sized to sit on the edge of a table, the portrait carries an interesting story. From Thompson:    Shades of Grey is a portrait, digitally and manually created, which references the complexity and ambiguity of… Continue reading Design of the Week: Shades of Grey

This week’s selection is an incredible 3D printed table by Ole Hermann Godø. It’s not entirely 3D printed, but as you’ll see, the “guts” of this table were definitely 3D printed.    The table’s innards have been replaced with several dozen intricately arranged 3D printed gears – that move! Combined with interior lighting, the effect… Continue reading Design of the Week: IKEA Ramvik Reinvented

This week’s selection is Ravi Venkataraman’s Wit’s End, which as you can see above, captures that feeling quite distinctly.    It’s part of Venkataraman’s “Emotions in 3D” series, where a variety of emotions, from profound to fun are explored in 3D sculptures. We’ve seen several of these works but this one somehow resonates the best;… Continue reading Design of the Week: Wit’s End

This week’s selection is Imprinted Bodies by NYC-based sculptor Lilia Ziamou. It’s actually two pieces, #1 and #2. While the pieces are certainly not as dramatic as some by other artists, there is a story behind these unusual works.    Ziamou explores the “concept of the female body”, using “curve and crevice”. She initially develops… Continue reading Design of the Week: Imprinted Bodies

This week’s selection is the stunning “Icarus Had a Sister” by artists Masters & Munn, a.k.a. André Masters and his partner, CJ Munn. It’s the obvious selection, as this piece helped the pair win the “Rising Star” award at last week’s Global 3D Print Awards at the 2013 3D Printshow. (Note the actual award trophy… Continue reading Design of the Week: Icarus Had a Sister

This week’s selection is Thomas Davis’ Liquid Pinewood Derby Car.   The ISDA (Industrial Design Society of America) and Inventables are sponsoring a Launch Day Challenge, where teams submit designs for 3D printed cars. And some of the designs are very far out, including our Design of the Week, the Liquid Pinewood Derby Car.   … Continue reading Design of the Week: Liquid Derby Car

This week’s selection is Nervous System’s Cellular Lamp, a beauty of a housing for an LED light using their typical “cellular” style that you can download and print yourself.    The object is actually a torus that has been shelled and “cellulared”. You can mount a small LED in the torus’ hole.    This is… Continue reading Design of the Week: Cellular Lamp

This week’s selection is “Mining Habitat” by artist Micah Genske. It portrays a bizarre combination of artificial gravity-rotating space station with industrial mining operations, complete with smokestacks.    The work is huge, as you can see in this image. Despite its size, it was apparently produced on a standard MakerBot personal 3D printer. We suspect… Continue reading Design of the Week: Mining Habitat

This week’s selection is maría/ixchel by artist Ana Marva Fernández.    The work is a combination of a traditional Maria figurine with the Mayan goddess Ixchel. They’re sitting on a moon, of course.    The work is 3D printed in full color, and if you look closely you’ll notice something fascinating about its surface. It’s… Continue reading Design of the Week: María and the Mayan Godess Ixchel

This week’s selection is Virtox’s Julia Vase #011 – “Heatwave”. We previously selected a Julia Vase as the Design of the Week, but “Heatwave” is so beautiful we simply had to choose one again.    Virtox, a.k.a. notable 3D modeler Stijn van der Linden, specializes in generated designs. Julia vases are created mathematically using complex algorithms.… Continue reading Design of the Week: Julia Vase #011 – Heatwave

  This week’s selection is the Four Jaw Self Centring Chuck by UK Thingiverse creator hexitex. The Four Jaw Self Centring Chuck is not a new item, having been designed in 2011, so we’ll classify it as an “oldie”.      The purpose of this design is literally its name. It’s a chuck used to… Continue reading Design of the Week: Four Jaw Self Centring Chuck

This week’s selection is the very beautiful Dequan Li Attractor by programmer and artist Nicolas Serouart.   The design is entirely mathematically generated and presents a beautiful sweeping shape, as if the complex motion was captured in an instant.    We’re not certain of the tools Serouart used to create this incredible shape, but he… Continue reading Design of the Week: Dequan Li Attractor

This week’s selection is “Grmpff” by German-based designer Kai Bracher.    The piece is entirely ornamental, displaying a figure exerting strong force on a sack, which is apparently pinned down by a wall peg. In reality, of course, the figure simply slides onto the peg. You can also apply a magnet to the base for… Continue reading Design of the Week: Grmpff

This week’s selection is the Alien Ball Bearing by Thingiverse creator Steve Medwin.     This bizarre shape actually functions, slightly. Medwin says:    This thing has five independent balls that roll around inside the organic ring. It reminds me of an alien version of a ball bearing, even though the inside doesn’t roll separately from… Continue reading Design of the Week: Alien Ball Bearing

This week’s selection is the Finger Hook by prolific Thingiverse creator spooner2011.    The Finger Hook is obviously a very simple piece, but it carries a couple of important properties. It’s a highly functional item, particularly if printed in strong ABS plastic. By adding a couple of holes, either by adjusting the STL model, or… Continue reading Design of the Week: Finger Hook