3D Printing and Cutting-Edge Design
22.05.12
Was created via the cutting-edge technology known as additive manufacturing, in which objects are ‘printed’ three-dimensionally, complete with all their moving, mechanical parts — a phenomenon unique to 3D printing processes.
Is this the shape of things to come? The New York gallerist Murray Moss believes so. ‘Additive manufacturing will define an absolutely new way of making things in the future,’ he says. It’s a view shared by British designer Michael Eden, whose latest 3D-printed vessels will be unveiled by Adrian Sassoon’s gallery at forthcoming shows including TEFAF in Maastricht (March) and both Collect (May) and Masterpiece (June/July) in London. ‘We’re on the brink of a new industrial revolution that will change the way we think about every object around us,’ says Eden.
The 3D pr inting process belongs to a group of rapid-manufacturing technologies that employ software packages to translate designs created as computer files into objects that are printed ‘in the round’ by a machine. Products — from furniture to lighting, jewellery to shoes — are built up, layer by layer, and fabricated as complete units so that no assembly is required.
Source: Spear's WMS