{"id":8879,"date":"2018-07-16T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2018-07-15T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:51:37","slug":"interview-julia-korner160720184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/interview-julia-korner160720184\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Julia K\u00f6rner: About 3D printing in design and its myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

3D printing has long ceased to be used only on an industry level, quite the contrary actually. This because the areas in which the 3D technology is used, are very diverse.\u00a0In addition to 3D printing in\u00a0construction<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0architecture<\/a>\u00a0, the first designers showing their talent through creative means are coming into it, now more than ever through the innovative technology and 3D printing in design is coming up.\u00a0Julia K\u00f6rner is one of those designers who discovered 3D printing.<\/p>\n

The most well-known commercial design by her could only be\u00a0admired\u00a0in the\u00a0Hollywood blockbuster Black Panther<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0In addition to the narrative story of the film, these 3D designed costumes have attracted a lot of attention. We have previously reported on it and wanted to know how such creations arise. Who to answer this question better than designer Julia K\u00f6rner herself?\u00a0We had the opportunity for an exclusive interview with the native Austrian and gained a deep insight into the broad spectrum of her work:<\/p>\n

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Julia K\u00f6rner developed together with costume designer Ruth E. Carter u.a. the costume of Queen Ramonda from Black Panther with the help of 3D printing (\u00a9 Marvel Disney)<\/p><\/div>\n

3DN: Can you introduce yourself and tell us how you came to work in 3D as well as in architecture and fashion?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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A self portrait of the successful designer (\u00a9 Pia Clodi)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I am a designer, who work interdisciplinary in architecture, product and fashion design and live and work in Salzburg and Los Angeles.\u00a0My research projects have specialised in 3D printing and digital production methods in recent years.\u00a0My work has received international awards and has been exhibited and published in museums and institutions worldwide.\u00a0I am the founder and managing director of JK Design GmbH in Salzburg and my most recent collaborations are 3D printed fashion pieces that I have developed with well-known haute couture houses for Paris Fashion Weeks, as well as a production for the Hollywood Film Black Panther.<\/p>

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I have a Master in Architecture from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and a Master in Emergent Technologies & Design from the Architectural Association, London.\u00a0Since 2012 I have taught\u00a0 at the University of California, Los Angeles at the Institute of Architecture.<\/p>\n

In architecture, I use 3D printing for the implementation of digital designs in model making, so in 2005, during my architectural studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, I began to present my architecture projects.\u00a0There are no limits to the complexity of the geometry and the designs developed on the computer, that can be made tangible without much effort.<\/p>\n

In London, I used 3D printing in the manufacture of products at Ross Lovegrove Studio as a project designer between 2007-2012.\u00a0Since then I have been fascinated by the realization of digital designs with the additive technology in the 1:1 scale.\u00a0Fashion is architecture on the smallest scale, the direct space that surrounds the body;\u00a0a great way to further develop digital design and 3D printing from rapid prototyping to manufacturing.<\/p>\n

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Julia K\u00f6rner uses 3D printing in the fields of fashion, design and architecture (\u00a9 Julia K\u00f6rner)<\/p><\/div>\n

3DN: Which 3D printers do you work with and which technologies do you specifically use to realize which projects?<\/h3>\n

For almost fifteen years I have been acquainted with a wide variety of printing techniques, Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sinthering, Fused Deposition Modeling, etc .;\u00a0also experimented with various materials.\u00a0I had the opportunity to work with the best 3D printing companies worldwide and in 2013 I designed the first dress printed in flexible material by the Belgian company Materialize 3D.\u00a0At that time, the material had no name.\u00a0In fashion, I usually work with Selective Laser Sinthering, in which process a laser melts layers of powder together.\u00a0The material is elastic.\u00a0By designing filigree mesh structures, you can imitate textiles and generate textures that can not be realized with any other manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\n\t\t