Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Switching-up your multi-tool

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 27, 2012

At DEVElOP3D we’re people of action: seeking out new challenges, accomplishing gruelling tasks, and occasionally doing some household chores, which is why we like the Switch multi-tool. Currently on Quirky,…

Last call for Northern designers LDF exhibiting opportunity

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 29, 2012

You could be centre of attention at the LDF The London Design Festival (LDF) is packed full of amazing product design – usually with an edge on furniture and domestic…

The Apprentice – a horror show

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 30, 2012

The gaffer: Lord Sugar [Insert predictable joke about being fired] If you managed to peer from behind the sofa at the spectacle that was The Apprentice (without self-harming at the…

Create a user video to squeak a chance at over $5,000

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 2, 2012

The 3D mouse is an alien gadget to non-CAD-users, sat perched on a desk cloaked in its own air of mystery and intrigue. 3Dconnexion, as designers and makers of such…

Chocolate binge to continue post Easter

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 10, 2012

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iictiOdHhXc%3Frel%3D0 Having shovelled enough of Cadbury’s finest down our necks to whip up a fervoured stint of hyperactivity, it’s with mild reluctance that we were confronted today with a news…

Prime Cuts: The Adastra – luxury on the high seas

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 12, 2012

Yesterday saw the launch of the $15 million, 42-metre luxury trimaran yacht Adastra, which we featured in DEVELOP3D in August 2011. Making its debut in some decidedly dirty water, the…

Stratasys and Objet merge as 3D printing arms race heats up

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 16, 2012

The battle for 3D printing superiority has taken another bold step as Stratasys and Objet announced a merger that will combine two already high-ranking companies and associated technologies under the…

Bernie, you might need one of these this weekend…

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 20, 2012

Although many of our Formula 1 loving readers can probably list of the venues for the entire season, most of the world are aware that the sport is heading into…

Springtime means only one thing at Fenway Park: 3D Printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 20, 2012

Nothing brings about the end of winter in the US like the arrival of the baseball season – warm weather, cold beer, hotdogs and, of course, the actual game. In…

Smash somethin’! Modern car safety through better design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 24, 2012

The B-Max survives a battering from a 30mph crash test Recently we crept away to Germany, to a secretive patch of Ford’s Merkenich test site, into a quiet, compact building,…