3D Printed Mobiles in Development

Here are some new renders and a drawing of fully 3D printed mobiles that we are currently working on.

Hopefully they will be for sale starting in May 2013
through our Shapeways mobiles shop …

Image of 3D Print Mobile Hanging Kinetic Sculpture Ceiling Art Artist Marco Mahler 1

Image of 3D Print Mobile Hanging Kinetic Sculpture Ceiling Art Artist Marco Mahler 2

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Calder at Pace London – April 19th – June 1st 2013

Pace London (6 Burlington Gardens) will be hosting a comprehensive exhibition of nearly fifty works of art by Alexander Calder from the years of 1945 to 1949, widely considered to be the most important period in the artist’s career. It will include more than twenty-five mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles, including Blue Feather pictured below.

More info …

Image of Alexander Calder stabile standing mobile kinetic sculpture

First Fully 3D Printed Mobile

– March 7th 2013 –

Here’s a photo of our first test print of a fully 3D printed mobile. Not very elegant yet, but it’s working, balance and all! This probably is the first fully 3D printed mobile ever made. I’ve done an extensive online search and couldn’t find anyone else making them. Also because I’ve been making handmade mobiles for years I have daily Google and Twitter alerts set up. Nothing ever came up about a fully 3D printed mobile. I doubt someone would have been able to make one and then didn’t post it online. This is not the easiest thing to come up with and an exciting thing to show off, and anyone with the technical skills to pull this off would likely be active online too.

Photo of 3D Printing Art First Mobile