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Tag: 3d printing

Lighting Inspiration

3D printing by julia koerner

October 16, 2020 Brad Koerner

Salzburg designer Julia Koerner was recently featured in Dezeen for her fantastic explorations of 3D printing in architectural and fashion applications. Most notably was her costume creations for Marvel’s Black Panther. I don’t know her personally, but I certainly love … Continue reading 3D printing by julia koerner

Creative Manufacturers

limelite – 3D printing and DC power

September 8, 2020September 9, 2020 Brad Koerner

Australian lighting manufacturer LimeLite has been steadily rolling out a line of track spots and decorative pendants that use 3D-printed components for the key mechanical pieces. Over the years I’ve covered several other manufacturers launching 3D printing for commercial lighting, … Continue reading limelite – 3D printing and DC power

Creative Manufacturers

3Form launches 3D printed pendants

May 24, 2020May 4, 2020 Brad Koerner

The LightArt group of architectural surfaces company 3Form has recently launched a line of 3D printed decorative pendants produced from recycled plastics, presumably cuttings and scrap from 3Form’s primary product lines that they’re chopping and extruding into the plastic filaments … Continue reading 3Form launches 3D printed pendants

Creative Manufacturers

3D printing at signify

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020 Brad Koerner

Nice video featuring Coen Liedenbaum, who is driving the development of the huge 3D printing venture with Signify. For one year I worked for Coen in the venture and I’m glad to see him get some exposure for all of … Continue reading 3D printing at signify

Creative Manufacturers

interplay lighting

April 10, 2020 Brad Koerner

Interplay Lighting is a new startup focused on implementing 3D printing technologies for commercial and residential lighting fixtures. Bootstrapped by lighting industry veteran Gary Trott (who had a long career at Cree Lighting), Interplay just launched a series of pendants … Continue reading interplay lighting

Business & Innovation

signify 3D printing videos

December 14, 2019December 14, 2019 Brad Koerner

Signify released some new videos promoting their 3D printing venture (which I covered previously in this post). I’m a bit surprised that if you know what you’re looking at, the videos reveal all the basics about what the Signify team … Continue reading signify 3D printing videos

Creative Manufacturers

signify’s 3D-printed “MyCreation” series

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Brad Koerner

Signify is slowly revealing more of its commercial-scale 3D-printing program, launching the consumer-focused offering “Philips MyCreation” in the Netherlands and Germany. MyCreation allows home consumers to mix and match from a massive variety of styles and colors to build their … Continue reading signify’s 3D-printed “MyCreation” series

Creative Manufacturers

gantri

October 16, 2017 Brad Koerner

Gantri is a San Francisco startup that is using 3D-printing to produce a line of light fixtures.  3D printing greatly reduces the cost and the time associated with traditional product development, requiring no cap-ex or leads times for expensive custom … Continue reading gantri

Creative Manufacturers

dirk vander kooij

October 31, 2016October 30, 2016 Brad Koerner

I saw a couple beautiful pieces by Amsterdam designer Dirk Vander Kooij at the design shop of the W Hotel Amsterdam. The Fresnel Light and a site-specific reception desk (constructed with the same material) both use large-scale 3D printing to … Continue reading dirk vander kooij

Lighting Inspiration

lumecluster

August 14, 2016August 14, 2016 Brad Koerner

Lumecluster is New York based-artist Melissa Ng, who’s created a striking 3D-printed medieval costume with stunning internal LED illumination sewn into the translucent padding.  Her design and fabrication process for the piece can be seen here. Continue reading lumecluster

Future Lighting

voxel8

April 23, 2016January 22, 2020 Brad Koerner

Voxel8 is a Boston-based, Harvard spin-out startup that is integrating the printing of conductive materials directly into 3D printing. The future is pretty obvious at this point: I’ve previously mentioned conductive ink and 3D printing — combining the two is an obvious step … Continue reading voxel8

Creative Manufacturers

autodesk project escher

April 5, 2016 Brad Koerner

Autodesk is working on software called “Project Escher” where groups of 3D additive-printers divide the printing of a single large piece. I find especially fascinating the obvious ability to integrate non-additive-printing assembly or fabrication techniques into the production line: Project Escher could also be … Continue reading autodesk project escher

Future Lighting, Uncategorized

anouk wipprecht

January 14, 2016January 13, 2016 Brad Koerner

Via Dezeen. “What is fashion missing?  Micro-controllers.” Some wild fashion concepts by Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht that combines 3D printing, embedded lighting, projection mapping, sensors, etc. (not to mention some crazy insane 3D modeling skills!) into some very futuristic ensembles.  Gorgeous … Continue reading anouk wipprecht

Creative Manufacturers

MX3D

January 13, 2016 Brad Koerner

Via Dezeen. MX3D is a new research and development company co-founded by Joris Laarman and Tim Geurtjens, which plans to use robots to produce the world’s first functional 3D-printed steel bridge over an Amsterdam canal by 2017. Continue reading MX3D

Creative Manufacturers

yingchuang

July 3, 2015July 3, 2015 Brad Koerner

Yingchuang (also named Winsun; I’m not sure the differentiation) is a Shanghai-based construction materials company that is showing some impressive advances in R+D with CNC production, including 3D-printed concrete construction. Yingchuang produces a range of products, including glass reinforced gypsum, special … Continue reading yingchuang

Business & Innovation

beautiful factories

June 7, 2015June 7, 2015 Brad Koerner

When you are either specifying or engineering a light fixture, I implore you to think about the broader issues of sustainability and the lighting industry’s impact on our tiny planet.  There are many sustainability certification programs out there and frankly, I … Continue reading beautiful factories

Cool Architects

rael san fratello + emerging objects

May 22, 2015May 21, 2015 Brad Koerner

I posted about them in 2013, but I’m so taken by their creative 3D printed materials and wild forms that I’m posting about them again:  Rael San Fratello is an Oakland based architecture studio led by the husband and wife … Continue reading rael san fratello + emerging objects

Creative Manufacturers

exnovo

February 9, 2015 Brad Koerner

Italian fixture manufacturer ExNovo utilizes 3D printing technology for some interesting pieces.  They follow on the early lead set by Materialise and their MGX line.     Continue reading exnovo

Future Lighting

the next evolution of lighting: embedded lighting

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015 Brad Koerner

Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting Part II – Embedded Lighting Miniaturization is a big deal. The lighting industry seems to chronically undervalue the importance of simply shrinking the size of components, to either reduce the overall volume … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: embedded lighting

Future Lighting

mc alpine research group: completely 3D-printed quantum dot LEDs

January 8, 2015January 9, 2015 Brad Koerner

Princeton-based McAlpine Research Group has successfully printed a complete combination of conductors and LED emitters, specifically quantum-dot based LED sources.  Popular Science has a good explanation of the breakthrough. And the specific research can be found here. Here is the … Continue reading mc alpine research group: completely 3D-printed quantum dot LEDs

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