With the help of 3D printing, students and young designers can physically see and feel their design in the shortest possible time. During those days without 3D printing, the process from design to manufacturing out their design/product takes weeks and months. Some of them might not even see their products physically, they only see the virtual design on the software or hand-drawn.
Let’s meet the designers and their projects from Raffles Design Institute…
1. Zhen Rong
Zhen Rong is an inquisitive product designer who has made countless creative products and has now ventured into making things using 3D printing. She designs this modular P51 toy plane where the kids can assemble their plane with its different components. The benefit of this modular planes is when the kids broke or lost one of the component, they can just get the replacement of that particular component without buying a new set.
With the help of 3D printing, she can just print out the modular components for her project instead of going thru the traditional methods of fabricating the molds or woodcraft them out.
To print out this modular P51 plane in colour, you can consider 3D Systems ProJet CJP 660Pro, a fast, accurate and high resolution full-colour 3D printer.
2. Yu Jia Yin
Jia Yin is a keen jewellery designer and designs countless beautiful jewellery pieces. Taking this opportunity, we would like to share with you her two jewellery designs and design inspiration.
Her first design is inspired by wisteria trees. She named the jewellery “Tree Life“. Wisteria is a flowering woody vine that puts on beautiful fragrant violet-blue flowers that dangle in weeping clusters. They are beautifully dainty like crystals hanging from a chandelier. She will start with concept sketches and illustrations before she designs her computer-aided graphics. Using computer-aided graphics, she will know which design would be better for 3D printing.
Her second design is inspired by the spiral staircase. The jewellery pieces are designed to represent how people’s lives rotate in a seemingly endless loop. The perspective of endlessness is captured in a loop in the bangle design. She also designs the matching earrings and pendant with the design of the stairs.
3. Anni Shen
Anni is fascinated by gothic infrastructure and her project is inspired by the rose window. Rose window is often seen in the cathedral of the Gothic architectural style in the design of circular stained glass window dominating one of the walls. It is made of a series of smaller windows radiating out from the center like wheel spokes or flower petals.
Anni’s retrospective rose window jewellery set consists of a unique necklace and ring.
With the help of 3D printing, all the young designers can now design their jewellery and instantly print them out their projects using the wax printer. With their castable jewellery samples, they can send for casting instead of going thru the long process to get their final products.