3D Printing Industry is back again with their 4th annual 3D Printing Industry Awards for 2020. Wanna design a trophy that utilizes the unique capabilities of 3D printing? Find some inspirations from the picks of 2019 3D Printing Industry Trophy Design Competition. Designers from across the world produced excellent work demonstrating how advanced 3D printing technologies could be used to create the trophy.
Honorable mentions
Metamorphic Gem – by Sruthi Venkatesh
The inspiration behind the Metamorphic Gem design by Sruthi Venkatesh comes from, “3D printing … being a disruptive technology is aiding in manufacturing complex design possibilities and is paving the way for a better future. This technology is a metamorphic gem and this is being symbolized in the design for the 3D Printing Industry Awards trophy.” Readers may remember Venkatesh as the winner of last year’s design competition.
Sebastiano Di Grazia’s Trophy Design
Sebastiano Di Grazia’s entry is a celebration of the capabilities of 3D printing. Following the design brief, “These are the words I took for the inspiration of this design, taking in consideration SLA and MJF technologies to create a design with particular features such as: Lattice structure, the internal channels or the level of detail offered by SLA.”
International Torch of Innovation – by Jeremy Webb
Jeremy Webb explains that his design, “celebrates the astounding achievements that can be made with additive manufacturing while acknowledging that the 3D-printing community is international. It represents the strides that we can make when we work together across the globe to invent new techniques, technologies, and methods.”
Bloom Trophy – by dionisis
This trophy design was made by dionisis and modeled with visual coding utilizing Rhino 6, Grasshopper and Python. The design is inspired by industrial elements.
The Winner of 3D Printing Industry and Protolabs Trophy Design Competition
This year winning designer is Ferran Sánchez Monferrer. Ferran is currently studying Design for Additive Manufacturing at Fundació CIM-UPC.
Daniel Cohn, Managing Director, of Protolabs Germany, said, “We set out to choose a design that was beautiful and showcased our stereolithography and Multi Jet Fusion capabilities. We’ve chosen Ferran’s ‘Optim’ trophy design as the winner because it represents the possibilities and variability of 3D printing in a very elegant way. It demonstrates how different materials can lead to a superior design, when the right balance is struck – ‘yin and yang’ in a beautiful 3D printed object!”
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