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Category: 3dprinting

3dprinting / 10.26.2022

Trophy Design for Formlabs Impact Awards 2022

Nervous System’s design for Formlabs‘ 2022 Impact Award Trophy was informed by their work designing vascular networks for 3D-printed organs. Intricate branching fluidic networks printed…

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3dprinting / 08.11.2021

Making blood vessels with 3D-printed sugar

Nervous System collaborated with bioengineers at Rice University to create complex blood vessel networks using generative design and 3D-printed sugar. In a paper…

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3dprinting / 11.24.2020

the secret to clean laser cutting: Designing a better laser nozzle using 3D-printing

People often ask us for tips on how to make lasercut jigsaw puzzles. In fact, our most popular blog post is on our…

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3dprinting / 07.01.2019

Nervous System collaborates with New Balance on 990S shoes

Nervous System collaborated with New Balance on the new 990 Sport TripleCell sneakers which have 3D printed heels. We have been working with…

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3dprinting / 05.02.2019

Nervous System collaborates on new 3D-printed organ research published on cover of Science

We founded Nervous System in 2007 with the goal of adapting algorithms and strategies from nature into new ways to design products; but…

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3dprinting / 12.16.2018

Trophy for Automattic Design Award

We were honored to be invited by John Maeda to design the trophy for the Automattic Design Awards this year. This is the…

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3dprinting / 05.16.2018

Porifera – 3D printed ceramic jewelry

Porifera is a new jewelry collection by Nervous System inspired by the forms of deep-sea glass sponges and made in a new 3D-printed…

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3dprinting / 04.24.2018

Self Forming Structures: An Exploration into 3D Printing on Pre-stretched Fabric

Hello! My name is Gabe Fields, and I spent the month of January this year as an intern at Nervous System. I worked…

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3dprinting / 09.22.2017

New Kinematics Dresses for Artificiella Ikoner exhibit

Nervous System created two new 3D-printed dresses for the exhibit Artificiella Ikoner at Nordiska Kompaniet (NK) in Stockholm. We worked with designers from Swedish advertising agency…

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3dprinting / 06.28.2017

Floraform Chandelier at World Expo 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan

Floraform Chandelier, 2017 (1.1 x 1.1 x .53 m), Selectively Laser Sintered nylon, wood and LED lighting. We recently returned from Kazakhstan, where…

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