The first print to come off a shiny new 3D printer is usually a toy widget of some sort that will forever sit at your desk without purpose. The alternative is a practical project that is custom and ...

Milan-based start-up Krill Design has 3D printed Sicilian orange peels into a tactile lamp that can be composted along with organic household waste. The designers at Krill Design turned to orange peel ...

Since the very beginning, the prevailing wisdom regarding consumer desktop 3D printers was that they were excellent tools for producing prototypes or one-off creations, but anything more than that was ...

When you think about 3D-printing technologies, most of them involve using plastic materials or maybe metals. But then again, we are living in an age that is highly focused on sustainability, so you ...

You can't rhyme anything with orange. And they make terrible baseballs. So the purpose of oranges has always seemed pretty straightforward: You either eat them or squeeze them for juice. Or so we've ...

Design studio Ammunition and light manufacturer Gantri have partnered to design 3D-printed wall sconces and lamps made from a corn-based material. Gantri and Ammunition's series comprises the Signal, ...

I really like that you can print anything you can dream up with a 3D printer. If you give a design geek access to a 3D printer, you never know what they will dream up. Designers at the Veneridesign ...

Wooden lights and guitars have been 3D printed by HagenHinderdael, a London-based company that works at the interface of sustainable design, architecture, and cutting-edge technology. However, it is ...

Last year, designer Muhammad Khalid of Khawarizm Studio unveiled ‘The Future Catcher,’ a sculptural, 3D-printed smart lamp that placed third in the 2020 3D Printed Luminaire Design Competition, an ...

Orange peels certainly are compostable, but Milan-based startup Krill Design has come up with an interesting alternative use for them. The company is incorporating orange waste into its 3D-printed ...