RESHAPE18 Competition - Deadline extended until Sep 7th

The RESHAPE18 |sensing materialities competition has extended the closing deadline to September 7th, 2018.

Through their online platform Reshape promotes research, design, and production of digital ideas, exploring implications and applications of technology and innovation. Reshape 18 | sensing materialities is focused on customized garments or products, promoting healthy living for individuals in everyday life.

Annually Reshape launches a competition organized by Noumena in collaboration with IN(3D)USTRY From Needs to Solutions and Fira Barcelona to foster the use and adoption of additive and advanced manufacturing on wearable and product design. This year's forum is October 16-18.

Designers, makers, and artists are invited to submit their ideas and design proposals for the Reshape challenge.

Submit your design now...

Last call for entries - Reshape

Reshape 18| Sensing Materialities Competition

Entries due August 31st

Through their online platform Reshape promotes research, design, and production of digital ideas, exploring implications and applications of technology and innovation. Reshape 18 | Sensing materialities is focused on customized garments or products, promoting healthy living for individuals in everyday life.

Annually Reshape launches a competition organized by Noumena in collaboration with IN(3D)USTRY From Needs to Solutions and Fira Barcelona to foster the use and adoption of additive and advanced manufacturing on wearable and product design. This year's forum is October 16-18.

Designers, makers, and artists are invited to submit their ideas and design proposals for the Reshape challenge.

Submit your design before August 31st!...

Reshape18 | Sensing Materialities Competition

Reshape is an online platform promoting research, design, and production of digital ideas, exploring implications and applications of technology and innovation in our society.

Annually Reshape launches a competition organized by Noumena in collaboration with IN(3D)USTRY From Needs to Solutions and Fira Barcelona to foster the use and adoption of Additive & Advanced Manufacturing on wearable and product design.

Submission deadline: 31 August 2018

More information... 

Searching for the best Rhino user

Jade 3D, in partnership with Voxel C&T, is searching for the best Rhino user through a virtual competition. 

The primary goal of the competition is to provide a 3D virtual experience with digital manufacturing tools interacting with Rhino. Participants can showcase their creativity and test their skills and abilities. Participants will compete for a prize that will consist of a rapid prototyping kit and accessories.

Register here!

For more information visit this link.

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

HUM3D Car Render Challenge 2017 - Winners Announcement

HUM3D has announced the winners of its yearly Car Render Challenge.

146 artists took part in this competition. There was a bunch of awesome works, creative ideas, and hours of modeling.

And of course many works were done in Rhino. Here a few examples:

• Autumn Valley 
• Building a Sport Car 
• Moonlight Serenade 
• The Day Dream 
• The Rush Toward the Future 
• Where Cars Are Born 

Car Render Challenge by HUM3D

It's time for the fourth annual Hum3D competition for the best car rendering! 

It is the largest awards event for the car 3D modeling and visualization industry.

Everything is as usual: You have to create a car 3D model, put it into a 3D environment, and make a beautiful rendering. There are no limits for your creative ideas: you can choose any automobile you like whether it is racing or imaginary vehicle. 

Hum3D invites all Rhino artists to participate. Details here!

Registration now open for DIVA Day - Berkeley, California

DIVA Day 2017

Friday, October 27

Registration for DIVA Day 2017 is now open.

DIVA Day is an annual symposium on environmental analysis tools used in design practice, research, and architectural education. This year's symposium is hosted by the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California Berkeley.

The 2017 symposium is concentrating on the science, modeling, and design application of circadian/healthy lighting. They will introduce Solemma's new product, ALFA - Adaptive Lighting for Alertness, a new circadian lighting design software for architects and lighting professionals.

Some of the confirmed speakers for DIVA Day are:

• Steven Lockley, Harvard Medical School
• Susan Ubbelohde, UC Berkeley and Loisos + Ubbelohe
• Mehlika Inanici, University of Washington
• Dan Weissman, Lam Partners
• Nathaniel Jones, Arup
• Jon Sargent, Solemma

As in previous years, DIVA Day will hold a student competition. Show how you are using DIVA for Rhino and win a $1500 stipend for travel to DIVA Day. The deadline is October 6th.

DIVA Day web site....

3D Hubs Student Grant 2017: best Rhino entries

Reminder! You have until June 30 to submit your entry for the 3D Hubs Student Grant 2017.

Simona Ferrari, 3D Hubs Global Community Manager, selected some of the best Rhino entries so far.

Apply here...

Mos(kit)o device by the Institut Pasteur iGEM 2016 Team

The Institut Pasteur iGEM 2016 Team came up with the Mos(kit)o device, which includes a trap to capture mosquitoes, an analysis station to detect the presence of pathogens in them and a mapping tool of the local of the infected mosquitoes.

To conceive the device, Rhino was used by the multidisciplinary team, which included students from ENSCI-Les Ateliers design school, ESPCI chemistry and physics engineering school, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris Diderot University, ETSL Biotech School and Jean Monnet Law Faculty in the Paris area.

The trap and analysis station components were designed according to entomologists’ recommendations. A 3D printed version was generated and used as a demonstrator device for the iGEM competition, at several venues including BioDesign events.

Zika, yellow fever, and several other diseases (arboviruses) are transmitted to people from insects’ bites. Currently, there are no vaccines for most of these diseases. One of the strategies to deal with the issue is to carry out massive insecticide spraying, resulting in toxicity and resistance by the mosquitoes. The Mos(kit)o device will be an innovative tool to monitor the presence of infected mosquitoes, prevent, and help in an environmentally responsible way of spraying insecticides.

For the Mos(kit)o device, the Institut Pasteur Paris 2016 Team won a gold medal and three best prizes (Best Applied Design, Best Diagnostic, and Best Entrepreneurship) at the 2016 iGEM competition.

More info about the project...

RESHAPE17 | Wearable Technology Competition: Programmable Skins

Wearables are becoming an active, supplemental skin that not only protect our body but also facilitate functions such as growth, movement, respiration, and nutrition or rehabilitate the environment.

Becoming a new medium able to regulate the relationship between our body and its surroundings, wearables can now collect and exchange information producing dynamic outputs. Reshape aims to enhance these impulses in fashion design, proposing a new challenge to makers and designers: Reshape 17 | Programmable Skins Competition.

For the 2017 edition, Reshape is collaborating with IN(3D)USTRY - From needs to solutions, an event organized by Fira Barcelona, to foster the use and adoption of Additive & Advanced Manufacturing Technologies by promoting the interaction between top users with manufacturers and service providers by sharing success stories and technological needs and limitations.

In this occasion, Reshape will coordinate multiple appointments: the Reshape Awards ceremony, celebrating the winners from the competition; the Reshape Symposium with cutting-edge speakers representing innovative companies, presenting their practices; the Reshape Exhibition, showcasing innovative products and projects revolutionizing the fields of fashion and design.

TIMELINE

February 13 - June 15, 2017: ONLINE REGISTRATION
February 13 - April 30, 2017: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT info@youreshape.io
June 30, 2017: SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE 23:59 (UTC/GMT +1 hour)
July 1-31, 2017: EVALUATION OF PROJECTS
September 1, 2017: ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES
October 3-5, 2017: AWARDS CEREMONY and final exhibition in IN(3D)USTRY - From needs to solutions


Registration and information at: info@youreshape.io

More info on Reshape17 and submission requirements...

About Reshape...

Reshape competitions are organized by Noumena in collaboration with IN(3D)USTRY - From Needs to Solutions, and in partnership with IAAC, Fab Lab Barcelona, Disseny Hub Barcelona, among others. Reshape competitions represent a collective frame of debate on the implications and applications of technology in design fields, with a specific focus on fashion design and retail.

Student Design Competition supported by Simply Rhino UK

Cutting Edge, an English company providing Corian® solutions for residential and commercial environments, is running a Student Design Competition.

The competition involves designing a "meet and greet" reception desk for a coworking space. The winning entry will be developed and made (up to a value of £10,000) in Corian®.

It will also be featured in onOffice magazine and will get exposure at leading design and architecture shows.

The competition is open to all current UK students of architecture or junior architecture/designers.

Deadline for entries is March 24.

Simply Rhino UK is supporting Cutting Edge by offering training (covering 3D modeling, rendering, or parametric design) as one of the prizes.

More info...

Full details...

Car Render Challenge 2016 by Humster3D studio - September 13-November 29, 2016

Car Render Challenge 2016

September 13-November 29, 2016

Submissions end at 16:00 (GMT)

Humster3D studio, a 3D model supplier, has been organizing 3D modeling competitions since 2013.

They have just launched their third annual Car Render Challenge and invite you to take part in this creative contest with amazing prizes. The winning entries will be published in 3D World and 3D Artist magazines.

To take part, create a car 3D model and a 3D environment around it. Then, create a rendering and send your work via the web form you'll find in the competition page by November 29. There are no limits for creativity: You can choose any automobile you like, whether it is a racing or an imaginary vehicle. You can find the competition rules here.

The event is held in partnership with leading companies and 3D software manufacturers.

Happy rendering and good luck!

More information...

DIVA Day 2016 date and location set

DIVA Day 2016

Announcing! DIVA Day 2016 will be on September 30th at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Hosted by John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, DIVA Day is a day of presentations and discussions focused on how DIVA and associated simulation tools can be used in design.

As in previous DIVA Days, there will be a student competition. This year's prize money will be $1500 (US).

Also on September 29th there is a workshop of DIVA training. Learn the basics of daylight modeling in Rhino and dive in to parametric modeling in Grasshopper using DIVA 4.

More details...

Airspace is Public Space: International Call for Projects

International Call for Projects

The Airspace is Public Space initiative invites artists, designers, biologists, activists, architects, etc. to participate in its 1st Call to invent and imagine creative uses of the common airspace:

"We will offer three Drone Starting Kits for the best projects. Drone Starting Kit is a package with everything you need to prototype a project with unmanned aerial vehicles."

Some Open Source designs of the Drone Starting Kit are developed by Noumena Architecture with Rhino, like the Gimbal and the Box of the kit.

• Each kit includes:
• Open Source Flone Quadcopter
• Manual: How to use airspace
• Servo Gimbal
• 1-year expert technical assistance, consulting and coaching to make the project a reality

The jury will be composed of a group of professionals, Lot Amorós of Flone project, Nuria Sánchez of Drone Creativo, Natxo Varona from Drone RC/UAV Catalunya community and Andreu Ibàñez, president and founder of LleidaDrone.

Projects may be submitted until 00:00h on January 20, 2016.

Complete details...

Apple Accessory 3D Printing Challenge by i.materialise

Apple Accessory 3D Printing Challenge: Win a 3D Print of Your Apple Gadget Add-on + a 200 EUR Voucher!

"3D printing is changing the way we design products – we see it with iPhones, iPads, iPods, Apple Watches or MacBooks: as soon as a new tech product is out on the market, the 3D modeling & printing community creates a world around them. 3D printed stands, docks, covers, mounts… there are no limits to creativity and innovation. In order to encourage you to design even more of these great products, we’re launching our newest design challenge together with Rhino: the Apple Accessory Challenge." -- i.materialise

Complete details...

Arch2O - NEXT7 Competition

For the second consecutive year Arch2O challenges architects, artists, urban planners, engineers, designers, students, and creative individuals to envision the Next7 -- by conceiving a proposed condition (or set of) which fundamentally different from the present. The future is going to be different. How? This competition is completely plastic and up to the individual entries to decide and define.

Each entry should specify at least one major difference that makes the future unique from the present. This condition should fundamentally alter what and how everything is.

The future presents problems that cannot be solved 1 or even 2 dimensionally. Any solutions must therefore incorporate an amalgam of disparate, new approaches. Entries are encouraged to solve problems in their defined futures with post contemporary technologies or methods. Failing this, there should be a clear demonstration of advancement in techniques; either advancement towards the positive, or the negative. Again, this is up to individual entries.

Arch2O puts forth that sustainable approaches incorporate parametric techniques, a reexamination of the analogue, and forward looking technologies. Entrants must decide for themselves what sustainability means. Entrants should consider that the time frame for the competition is set at an undetermined point in the future, so restrictions set on current technologies may not exist. Cars may fly, fusion might work, things may be roughly the same, save for one or two defining features. Things may be better or worse. These possibilities should be considered and incorporated into entries. The main focus of the competition will be architecture.

Early registration is now open until January 15, 2016.

Final deadline is February 7, 2016.

Complete details...

Whoops! One more from 2015 R+D Awards

Whoops! We missed one. In an earlier post, we noted a couple of winners in the 2015 R+D Awards who used Rhino and Grasshopper. Another winner, Synthesis Design + Architecture also credits our product, Kangaroo, for material simulation in the design process.

Synthesis Design + Architecture exhibition pavilion....

Winners of architectural awards

Bar Raval

Phillip J Currie Dinosaur Museum

The Journal of American Institute of Architects have announced the winners in their 2015 R+D Awards.

In the online articles describing the projects, two winners described how they used Rhino and Grasshopper in their design process.

The Award for Bar Raval in Toronto, by Partisans, is noteworthy for its curves and its reminiscence of Gaudi.

The other, a Citation for Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Alberta, by Teeple Architects, goes the design direction of angles.

Both are beautiful projects, deserving of their recognition. Besides, what's not to like about a bar and a dinosaur museum?

dECOi architects winner in Architizer A+ Awards

Architizer has announced its A+Awards. In its third year, the awards are a global architectural award program with multiple categories and judges.

One Main in Boston is the Popular Choice Winner in the Architecture +Materials category. Designed by dECOi architects, One Main is the penthouse offices of an investment group.

The focus was on green building and clean energy technologies. The interior elements were milled from sustainably forested spruce plywood using numeric command machines. As much as possible, the typical industrial components were replaced with articulate milled timber. For example, the door handles were customized carvings, but still less expensive than the standard stainless steel D-handles. This method also provided a radically streamlined delivery of a highly crafted interior.

The entire project was nested onto 1200 4x12 ft plywood sheets and milled using a small 3-axis CNC router. dECOi provided the actual tooling paths without plans or sections. Only 3D instructional files were provided for over 1 million linear feet of cut.

Raphael Crespin commented, "This project would not have been possible without Rhino."

The Architizer winners ....

Stade Vélodrome - Marseille

SCAU photo

Stadium of the Year 2014 winner, Public Vote #6
Location: Marseille, France
Design: SCAU

The Stade Vélodrome was generated from a consortium of Arema, GFC, SCAU, and EGIS. Elioth, the team from EGIS, applied its expertise in the roof and cladding to this steel structure. Elioth implemented large-scale parametric geometric modeling tools with Rhino and Grasshopper, using these in conjunction with finite element software. These tools enabled real-time updating of the computational models. To generate and re-generate the model in a few minutes for the framework of thousands of members, Elioth relied on this parametric geometry.

Also, one side of the stadium includes a transparent area to let sunshine through to the lawn. Using algorithm optimization, Elioth used Rhino Grasshopper + Galapagos to generate the shape of a water drop for the outline of the area.