Art & Design

I first came across Maya Kaplan’s work through a short video of an experiment. She had rigged a 3D printer to work with yarn, and instead of building up layers, it followed a digital path around a set of pegs…

Have you ever wondered how a character animated with stop motion can express sadness, fear, or tenderness? In Wildwood, the new feature film from LAIKA Studios, the answer lies in more than 142,000 3D printed facial expressions that are strung…

This Halloween, take your costume to the next level with a unique, 3D-printed mask. Whether you’re going for spooky, stylish, or something in between, 3D printing gives you the freedom to create a look that’s entirely your own. Our collection…

3D printing has made its way onto another catwalk. This time, it was designer Susan Fang who brought it to London Fashion Week, unveiling her Spring/Summer 2027 collection, Air-Illusion, at the Barbican Centre on September 18. With Bambu Lab as…

As additive manufacturing continues to push the boundaries of design and production, one area where its potential truly shines is in furniture making. Combining form, function, and sustainability, 3D printed furniture is opening new doors for designers to experiment with…

From the 3D printer to the couture runway. Jean Paul Gaultier turned to additive manufacturing for five looks in its Autumn/Winter 2026-27 haute couture collection, shown in Paris in July. The collection was Duran Lantink’s first couture outing as creative…

An STL file (short for stereolithography) is the most common format for representing the geometry of an object to be 3D-printed. Unlike formats such as OBJ, 3MF, or AMF, STL describes only the shape using a mesh of triangles, without…

You read that right. This 3D printed umbrella takes flight and follows you around, keeping you protected from the rain while leaving your hands free. To make it possible, John Xu, creator of the YouTube channel I Build Stuff, used…

3D print models are ready-to-print digital files, usually STL or 3MF, that you download and send straight to your printer. There are many websites where you can find STL files to print, with new models added all the time. However,…

The text on the pages of this book, Manual, isn’t a traditional story. Look closely, and you’ll see it’s G-code, the machine language used to control 3D printers. Created by Studio Darius Ou with Benson Chong through their research initiative…

The 2026 Roland-Garros Tournament kicked off last week, and we can’t pass up the chance to highlight Novak Djokovic’s entrance. The Serbian player arrived wearing a jacket featuring a 3D-printed wolf and real clay from the legendary Parisian court. The…

Sheyn means “beautiful” in Yiddish. Aesthetics are at the heart of Nicolas Gold and Markus Schaffer’s work, so much so that they chose this word as the name for their design studio. Their approach blends architecture and design to reveal…