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Behind the New Frames in the 3D-Printed Cabrio Collection: A Chat with Eyewear Designer Bieke Hoet!

Radhika Dhuru
November 05, 2015
Behind the New Frames in the 3D-Printed Cabrio Collection: A Chat with Eyewear Designer Bieke Hoet!

Earlier this year, Materialise and eyewear specialist Hoet Design Studio launched the 3D-printed Cabrio collection. Since then, Materialise and Hoet joined hands again for a collaboration with SEIKO for the SEIKO Xchanger collection of sports eyewear – which won the Silmo d’Or award last month. Having set the bar up high, Materialise and Hoet are back with all-new frames, featuring all-new innovations including the world’s first 3D-printed adjustable temple system, to expand the 3D-printed Cabrio collection. Bieke Hoet, owner of the Hoet Design Studio, had a chat with us about where all this is heading for the eyewear world. (To learn more about how this collection is 3D-printed in Materialise’s certified manufacturing services, check out our case study here.)

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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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Eyes on the Prize! Materialise and SEIKO’s Xchanger Collection Wins Silmo d’Or Award for Sports Eyewear

Radhika Dhuru
October 05, 2015
Eyes on the Prize! Materialise and SEIKO’s Xchanger Collection Wins Silmo d’Or Award for Sports Eyewear

When the SEIKO Xchanger collection of 3D-printed sports eyewear was introduced at the Silmo optical fair in Paris this month, it won the prestigious Silmo d’Or Award for sports equipment. With this collaboration between SEIKO Optical Europe, Materialise, and Hoet Design Studio, 3D Printing is making its presence known in the eyewear industry. Here’s what this award-winning collection offers the sportively-inclined amongst us. Combining performance, comfort and personalization, so you never have to exchange these elements for each other: instead, the Xchanger lets you keep all these and exchange frame components instead to best fit your style and sport.

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We’re on TV! French TV Program M6 Turbo Showcases Materialise Bringing PEUGEOT FRACTAL Concept Car to Life

Radhika Dhuru
October 02, 2015
We’re on TV! French TV Program M6 Turbo Showcases Materialise Bringing PEUGEOT FRACTAL Concept Car to Life

When French TV program M6 Turbo – a long-running show dedicated to the latest news in the automotive world – wanted to showcase PEUGEOT’s new FRACTAL concept car with 3D-printed interiors, they needed to show their viewers some visuals of how these parts were made and what 3D Printing actually looks like. So they decided to come over, and we were happy to show M6 Turbo around the 3D Printing production floor at Materialise HQ: Europe’s largest single-site factory for Additive Manufacturing. Take a look!

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Mimics Helps Investigate Middle Pleistocene Murder

Radhika Dhuru
September 29, 2015
Mimics Helps Investigate Middle Pleistocene Murder

How ancient is the act of murder? Thanks to a recently-discovered skull in Spain, we know it’s at least 430,000 years old. Materialise software Mimics Innovation Suite, used by researchers at the Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, is helping uncover one of the oldest crime mysteries in human history: what killed the young adult now known to us as specimen Cr-17?

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The Mimics Innovation Suite Is Helping Researchers Study Hagfish Slime!

Radhika Dhuru
September 21, 2015
The Mimics Innovation Suite Is Helping Researchers Study Hagfish Slime!

Ever been fascinated by hagfish slime? No? You should be. This extraordinary goop can leave aquatic predators fumbling to detach themselves while the slippery hagfish makes a getaway, and also contains protein threads of remarkable strength comparable to that of spider silks. With those material properties, the substance could help develop a sustainable resource that could save our ecosystem: and our software program Mimics is helping researchers find out how the humble hagfish produces such a super-material on short notice.

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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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Want to Meet the 3D Printing Community and Share Ideas Worth Making? There’s an App for That

Radhika Dhuru
August 11, 2015
Want to Meet the 3D Printing Community and Share Ideas Worth Making? There’s an App for That

Troubleshoot, discuss, or even just browse 3D Printing ideas and models on the go: Ideas Worth Making is back, and this time it’s on your Android! The new Ideas Worth Making app is downloadable for free from Google’s Play Store, and it’s making it easier than ever to share inspirations with the 3D Printing community.

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