Inspired by recent developments in 3D Printing and the number of exhibitions in London during the summer, as well as the number of queries on the subject at work, I opted to present a talk on:
As much as I hated to do it, I had to include THE gun. Whilst I had an Ultimaker 3D Printer on loan(MASSIVE Thanks to them), it seemed that all anyone wanted to know was when I was going to print a gun! FFS. S0 with that I started by dispelling the myths and dangers around the subject, whilst pointing out that the recent successful ‘firing’ came from Solid Concepts on an $800,000 SLS printer!
Then I formally introduced myself…
And then gave a brief overview of the costs involved in desktop/additive 3D Printing and the materials available.
As I mentioned, this Talk partly came on the back of the wealth of exhibitions in London 2013 – most notably at the Science Museum, Design Museum and 3D Print Show.
The Talk then progressed to High Fashion, including Dita Von Teese’s dress and Iris Van Herpen, and the concept of OpenSource fashion delivered by MakerBot and Francis Bitonti.
No discussion on 3D Printing would be complete without touching on Selfies. This included looks at iMakr’s pop-up store in Selfridges, as well as my own experiences at London 3D MeetUps (see my intro slide).
Desktop printing is all fine n good for prototyping but what about bigger objects and more refined items? Here I looked at medical applications, movie props, and even cars.
From a client perspective, and particularly event-based applications, the concept of creating a physical representation of social data and analytics is hugely attractive. The abstract slide below is from an experiment by the digital artist, Brendan Dawes, and represents music as a 3D object, with additional slides with client work from Ogilvy and Sapient Nitro.
With the idea of client-friendly printing in mind, I shared some work from another of the Jack Morton offices. New York maintained 2 MakerBot Replicator 2’s on their Hertz stand in 2012, creating a variety of key fobs and giveaways for visitors to the stand.
Always one for Harsh Realities I wanted to impart the truth – as wonderful as all this is, we need time for R&D! The Seven P’s – Proper, Prior, Planning, Prevents, Piss, Poor, Performance.
That said, it pays to end on a joke 🙂
