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How Do You Design and Realize a Customized 3D-Printed Hand?

Ayishwariya Menon
February 18, 2016
How Do You Design and Realize a Customized 3D-Printed Hand?

We had the opportunity here at Materialise Malaysia to start off 2016 by living up to the Materialise motto: working towards a better and healthier world. With the help of some talented and generous people, I was able to make a real difference in a wonderful little boy’s life, with a 3D-printed hand. But between the original inspiration to do this, and the final, happy, day when Padmaloshn tried on his new hand for the first time, lay months of dedicated effort by various people. This is how we created Padmaloshn’s new 3D-printed hand.

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A High Five to Padmaloshn for His New 3D-Printed Hand!

Radhika Dhuru
February 09, 2016
A High Five to Padmaloshn for His New 3D-Printed Hand!

Meet Padmaloshn Vijayan, a cheerful little LEGO-building schoolboy from Kuala Lumpur. In all his young life, this capable 7-year-old has been performing his daily activities single-handedly: Padmaloshn was born without a fully developed right hand. Last year, he met Ayishwariya Menon, a volunteer teacher for a human values education program run weekly in his community — who also happens to be the clinical team manager at Materialise Malaysia. A few months later, Padmaloshn received his first 3D-printed experimental hand, designed by open-source community e-NABLE and printed by Materialise. Here’s how it all unfolded.

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Design Flanders Honors Materialise with the Prestigious Henry van de Velde Company Award

Vanessa Palsenbarg
January 14, 2016
Design Flanders Honors Materialise with the Prestigious Henry van de Velde Company Award

Last night found a well-dressed group of people from Materialise at an illustrious awards ceremony at the BOZAR, the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels. The reason why is that yesterday, Materialise was named the 2015 recipient of the Henry van de Velde Company Award! Accepting the award on behalf of Materialise – in front of a crowd of 1,300 people – was Founder and CEO, Wilfried Vancraen. Design Flanders has been presenting the Henry van de Velde Awards since 1994, with the award serving to confirm the high quality of the work produced and encouraging prize winners to continue to tread the path of experimentation and inventiveness in the creative sectors.

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Benin Summer School 2015: What We Learned from Organizing a Scholarship Summer School in Papané

Julien Deckx
December 18, 2015
Benin Summer School 2015: What We Learned from Organizing a Scholarship Summer School in Papané

In early August, I reached Benin with my partner Lotte, Materialise CEO Fried Vancraen and Executive Vice President Hilde Ingelaere. The goal for the next month was to conduct a summer school at the hospital in Papané, with 17 students—the best performers from four high schools in the region—and guide them through the developmental projects they had chosen to work on. At the end of three weeks, three students would be chosen to receive a scholarship to aid their further education. Looking back at my notes over the following month, I think we had as much to learn as the students did.

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Throwback to Summer: Run4Benin Fundraiser Race at Materialise HQ

Radhika Dhuru
November 11, 2015
Throwback to Summer: Run4Benin Fundraiser Race at Materialise HQ

Late every summer at Materialise, there comes a day when professionally dressed people suddenly transform into runners in full gear. That’s when you know it’s the day to Run4Benin. The race, which takes a route through in the green fields around Materialise HQ, raises funds to co-organize a summer school in the small West African country Benin. It also gets people off their office chairs and into their running shoes, which is great.

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Fashion Design Award for threeASFOUR's 3D-Printed Spring Summer 2016 Collection!

Radhika Dhuru
October 27, 2015
Fashion Design Award for threeASFOUR's 3D-Printed Spring Summer 2016 Collection!

How is 3D Printing going to change the world of fashion? We asked New York-based fashion collective threeASFOUR, who recently won the prestigious Fashion Design Award by the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. “In a way similar to how Lycra entered the fashion industry in the ’80s, radically evolving how clothes were made and how garments behave,” says Gabi Asfour, one-third of the threeASFOUR trio. “3D Printing is going to take the industry multiple steps ahead in terms of form and function.” That’s also aptly close to how we feel about threeASFOUR, looking at their innovations since they began collaborating with Materialise early into their 3D modeling departure.

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Toyota's Lightweight Car Seat: A Bionic Design

Kirsten Van Praet
September 15, 2015
Toyota's Lightweight Car Seat: A Bionic Design

How do you produce a lightweight car seat prototype with a minimal volume and an optimal heat capacity? And how do you edit and 3D print such a large and complex file? Materialise has a solid reputation in the automotive industry, built on extensive knowledge in the production of large prototypes. In a quest to assist Toyota in creating a lightweight car seat, the software team added new features to our design enhancement software 3-matic, and developed a slice-based operations technology which is incorporated into the Build Processor software.

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Marina Hoermanseder and Julia Koerner’s Smock Corset: How 3D Printing Is (Literally) Shaping Fashion Today

Radhika Dhuru
August 31, 2015
Marina Hoermanseder and Julia Koerner’s Smock Corset: How 3D Printing Is (Literally) Shaping Fashion Today

We often see examples of how 3D Printing enables amazing cross-disciplinary collaborations. Adding to that list, 3D Printing went over to the fashionable side at the Mercedes Benz Berlin Fashion Week, when Austrian designer Marina Hoermanseder displayed a unique piece created in collaboration with architect Julia Koerner. Amid a strikingly vintage-meets-modern collection, Marina produced the most vintage-meets-modern piece of them all: a corset, re-imagined and re-invented. Here’s what happens when fashion and architecture meet 3D Printing.

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The Other Kind of Fashion Modeling: 3D Modeling Melinda Looi’s ‘Gems of the Ocean’ with Samuel Canning

Radhika Dhuru
August 20, 2015
The Other Kind of Fashion Modeling: 3D Modeling Melinda Looi’s ‘Gems of the Ocean’ with Samuel Canning

Fashion designer Melinda Looi’s new ‘Gems of the Ocean’ collection includes one of the world’s first full-length gowns to be 3D-printed as a single part. It also comes with unique 3D-printed accessories straight out of a mermaid’s world. So what does it take to make a collection like this one? A highly skilled team of 3D modeling wizards celebrating all the design freedom offered by 3D Printing! Here’s how they did it – and here’s why even a 12-core CPU with 64GB RAM can seem like it’s not enough computing power sometimes.

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25 Years of Meaningful Innovations

Kristina Camilleri-Grygolec
June 05, 2015
25 Years of Meaningful Innovations

This year, Materialise is celebrating its 25th anniversary and you’re likely to hear the phrase “25 Years of Meaningful Innovations” going around. But what does 25 Years of Meaningful Innovations mean?

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