Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Customisation key in 3D Systems’ latest acquisition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 25, 2012

The arrival of summer has not seen 3D Systems let up in its spending spree – having announced its latest acquisition: Bespoke Innovations, a San Francisco start-up that 3D prints…

3D printed ‘fur’ tiles

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 28, 2012

Sadly, our plans to visit Clerkenwell Design Week were scuppered by deadlines, although acquaintances that made it felt we should show you this: BREAD‘s laser sintered fibre tiles. The project…

The Bee Brick – the luxury hotel for bees

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 29, 2012

Design collaboration group Saint H are setting to right some of the environmental wrongs with research-led, future orientated design – including the Bee Brick, a temporary shelter for the hardworking…

Tasty design – The Cube visits London

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 6, 2012

A view that’s good enough to eat Before the Jubilee festivities overcame London this extended holiday weekend, we were lucky enough to be invited by Swedish appliance experts Electrolux to…

UK government does something positive to help future designers with the new National Skills Academy

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 7, 2012

As design students across the world finish off their final year projects, the UK government is developing a positive approach to help future students with the new National Skills Academy…

Everyone hates dentists. DMG Dental make them more tolerable.

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 8, 2012

As far as we’re concerned dentists are as bad as traffic wardens, manhandling our molars with screaming utensils and charging us vast sums for the privilege. DMG Dental, with some…

How to craft the best 3D4D Challenge ideas

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 19, 2012

A few weeks back we attended the London workshop of the 3D4D Challenge, where we huddled down with our ideas of how the materials and build methods of 3D printing…

Blazing a trail

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 21, 2012

Will the Olympic torch survive our temperamental British summer? Tanya Weaver talks to the engineering firm who ensured it was not only a beautiful design but an extremely robust one…

Wheel power

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 22, 2012

Tanya Weaver visited RGK in Staffordshire, UK, which has designed and manufactured in-house the official wheelchair of the men's and women's Great Britain Olympic basketball teams

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…