Shapeways 3D Printing & the Culture of Creativity

What is the future of creativity, manufacturing, and design? How is the Shapeways community and 3D printing enabling everyone to make their ideas real?

This film portrays how the Shapeways 3D printing community and marketplace is enabling everyone to be a creator. All you need is an idea and an Internet connection.

Shapeways* Made in the Future
www.shapeways.com


CREDITS

Directed by Stephan Malik
Produced by Carine Carmy, Shapeways
Featuring...
From Shapeways: Josh Levine, Peter Weijmarshausen, Carine Carmy, Brad Dickason, Gary Kenney, Duann Scott
From the Shapeways Community: Stijn van der Linden of Virtox, Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of Nervous System, Michiel Cornelissen, Bernat Cuni of Cunicode, Carl Collins and Peter Knocke of GothamSmith

Featuring Designs by:
Bathsheba Grossman, Bits to Atoms, Columbia Aerodrome, Craig Kaplan, Cunicode, Gilbert13, GothamSmith, Joshua Harker, Meggo, Michiel Cornelissen, Museum of Small Things, Nervous System, Schreer Design, Shapeways, Spaho Design, Theo Jansen, Tristan Bethe, Vertigo Polka, Virtox, Wearable Planter.

Music by Tai Vare & Bill Wandel
Including: Principal Violin - Sonia Lee, Principal Cello - Tom Sullivan, Live strings recorded at Pearl Sound Studios by Chuck Alkazian

Special thanks to the Shapeways Community, the weather gods for enabling us to hit 5 cities in less than a week, and the future.

• Category

  Science & Technology

[FutureInventions]

This is amazing. :D

[Shapeways]

Thank you! 

[JUNMRLS09]

Amazing! Great work guys, I hope we can print food in the future.

[Shapeways]

Us too, the thought of 3D printed chocolate makes us happy!

[LunaBrid]

This is sooooo cool you guys (& girls)! Star Trek getting reality. Love it.

[Shapeways]

Minds are blow!

[Jake Drews]

This needs to be a TV Commercial.

[Shapeways]

We love you too...

[kalaal97]

Penises. That is probably what I would use a 3D printer for.

[ardhunter94]

i need to know what the item at 0:53 is. The robot that moves with wind power. I want to give one of those to my brother

[kaloshilo]

New to Shapeways and 3D printing. Currently, also examining another maker and determining which products to create with which company.

[spamerman]

I just want to say thank you for fixing the future.

[LongJohn Vllasaliu]

I just discovered you guys and I felt this "aaaAAAAAAALELULJA!" moment.

I'm going to develop a whole bunch of things using your service.

Thank you for existing and make sure to get investors so you can keep alive.

The world needs people and companies like you!

[Gilliam Robles]

yay now you guys can build a huge 3d printer and you can 3d print us houses or yachts or cruise ships etc

[Sissi Wedgwood]

Wow. Wow Wow,

I gotta get one of these.

[CaptainFlannigan]

0:32 Anyone know any 3D modelling software to create a look like this? I've been trying to do something similar in C4D but can't seem to get it perfect!

[John Frangella]

3D printing is truly a remarkable technology

[Excyis]

Blender works very well.