Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Postion this: Software solution for dummies

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 28, 2012

For those intrigued by the world of automotive crash tests, the dummies inside provide an important tool in measuring the safety of a vehicle. 3D optical measurement technologies and engineering…

World Industrial Design Day: let’s all join hands and sing a song?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 29, 2012

“People all over the world, join hands, start a love train… love train…” Today is the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design‘s (ICSID) World Industrial Design Day, although frankly…

Olympic cycling nostalgia from 1992 – design destroys the field

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 29, 2012

You can still see the original at London’s Science Museum It’s up there as one of my clearest childhood memories of the Olympic games – the bizarre shape and construction…

DesignBUZZ update: GrabCAD join up + deadline extension

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 2, 2012

You might be in the midst of scribbling your designs, or touching up your final renderings, but there’s a challenge coming over the horizon – GrabCAD, the largest online community…

Gee-Up! Because you never know when you’ll need a 3D model of a horse

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 3, 2012

Creators of stock digital 3D models and textures, Dosch Design, have launched a range/herd of horses to its downloadable catalogue of buildings, furniture and appliances. The completely textured 3D-models are…

Sergio Pininfarina dies, aged 85

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 3, 2012

We’re sad to hear that the Sergio Pininfarina, a legend of automotive design has passed away, aged 85. He received dozens of design awards for his incredible portfolio of work…

DEVELOP3D Live talks: Alice Taylor – Building a business on 3D printing and mass customisation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 3, 2012

From our series of talks from DEVELOP3D Live, we present Alice Taylor of MakieLabs. Founded in early 2011 by Alice Taylor and three co-founders, MakieLab is developing its first line…

Sports regulators warned about future of ‘technology doping’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 4, 2012

American swimmer Ryan Lochte will be hoping for an advantage from Speedo’s latest equipment at this year’s Olympic Games Having seen what performance enhancements technology can bring to sportsmen and…

The Wacom Cintiq 24 is back, and all touchy-feely with multi-gesture capabilities

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 10, 2012

Tom Cruise might be a little too preoccupied at the minute to reprise his Minority Report hand-swooshing finesse, but you can get in on the act with the new multi-touch…

DEVELOP3D Design BUZZ

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 12, 2012

Our very first design competition, with the challenge being for you to create or modify tools for the modern day apiarist (beekeeper!), open to all, with some amazing prizes.