There’s another Kickstarter campaign you should consider backing.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: another campaign pushing a questionable desktop 3D printer with a sketchy founder.
That’s not what this is.
Instead, it’s a book.
My friend Michael Molitch-Hou is publishing a book about 3D printing. I’ve known Michael for many years, and he’s been swimming in the bubbling soup that is the 3D print industry for quite a long time. He’s seen it all.
I have too, and both Michael and I have witnessed all kinds of radical designs enabled by 3D print technology. Most people in the public don’t realize it, but virtually all of the products and structures they use on a daily basis have designs that are severely constrained by the process used to make them.
3D printing removes a lot of those constraints, and unlocks the ability to create, well, almost any geometry you could imagine.
In the past decades, we’ve seen designers discover that the door is unlocked and they’ve taken off with some incredible, sometimes insane, 3D printed designs. Many of them you’ve seen in Fabbaloo’s pages over the years.
Michael has decided to capture them in a new book, called “Impossible Works”.
They were impossible before, but with 3D printing, they are now possible.
Michael has collected beautiful images of dozens of incredible 3D printed designs made over the past few years and displayed them in a wonderful book of art. This is not a 3D printing textbook or manual at all; instead, it’s a bridge from that world to those who appreciate art and design.
In the book, you will find items including:
- Delicate lattice sculptures
- Fully articulated gowns worn by couture designers
- Architectural experiments in clay and metal
- Aerospace components that resemble alien fossils
- Bioprinted tissues and medical implants
- 3D printed food and confectionary
- The strange beauty of failed prints
As Michael describes:
“Some objects look like fossils from another world.”
That is precisely how I feel when I see amazing 3D-printed designs. I expect art appreciators to have the same feeling when they look through Impossible Works.
The Kickstarter campaign for the book is now open, and pricing starts at only US$25 for a digital version, and US$65 for the hardcover. There are multiple alternative options, including one with a radical 3D-printed cover.
If you’re into art and 3D printing, you should consider buying Impossible Works.
There will be a time in the future when many more things are produced using 3D printing, and these radical designs will be “normal”.
This book is a peek into that future that you can view today.
Via Kickstarter
