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At a glance you might mistake this for a @nasa astronomy picture of the day, but really it's just a sheet of recycled 3D prints. Well, it's all space dust in the end, right?

I'll have a video about this ongoing effort to recycle 3D prints out on Saturday. Keep your organs of sight decorticated!
This 3D printed Pentagonal Hexacontahedron is in fact 12 individual prints that are folded, snapped together, and assembled into this ball. For now it's a somewhat useless print, but having this experiment in my back pocket may prove useful in the future šŸ˜‰
Yesterday's beautiful sunset hike between rainy days and with great company. I dig it
There are so many underappreciated objects that have been painstakingly designed but tend to go unnoticed. I started 'the Manhole Project' to pay homage to these objects humbly designed to serve the people by turning then into these 3D printed treasures. 
This is the first coin, depicting a manhole hidden in Osaka, Japan. Japan is already dedicated to beautifying their manhole covers with around 23,000 unique covers with fantastic designs that have been voted into existence. I love that 
For more info watch my latest YouTube video where I say 'manhole' an uncomfortable number of times. Printed with @shapeways
Tomorrow's video will feature a little assortment of cool prints, including this satisfyingly smooth bronze hexasphericon 3D printed with @shapeways

I love how dramatically different this simple shape appears from different angles 🤯
Giant spherical Springo? I'll take two...dozen
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Printed with @meltink3d aqua glow in the dark PLA filament. (That's right, it glows)
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The Make Anything Logo

Devin Montes October 18, 2017

As I mentioned in my first post, Make Anything // 3D Printing Channel was born on a whim. My first video was published on April 26, 2016, the week after my finals at Art Center College of Design. I was one term away from graduating with a B.S. in Product Design, but decided to take the summer term off to recover from the rigor that is design school. During that break, I began making my 3D printing videos as a fun way of staying occupied and combining my passions for art, design, 3D printing, filmmaking, and educating.

 
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My first video was a 5 minute demonstration of these giant custom hair clippers. In it I claimed that the purpose of the video was to prove that "3D printing can be used to create useful, functional things". That has remained one of my goals as the channel grew, but at the time I wasn't even sure if anything would come of Make Anything. Nevertheless, my perfectionist design instinct was triggered and I couldn't post the video without first creating my own background music, logo, and design language for the channel.

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The design process for the Make Anything logo was rather accelerated, but still involved a degree of ideation. I immediately began playing around with the initials M and A because I saw the potential in the fact that the letters have similar peaks. I was quickly drawn to the idea of using a repeating shape because it's a perfect representation of 3D printing. I'm also a fan of simplicity and pen drawing, which clearly influenced the design.

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The logo I ended up with consisted of very thin, consistent lines, as if drawn with my go-to sketching tool, the Pilot G-2 05 pen. I placed the triangles and text inside of shapes so that they could live on any background, from the default light grey (#F2F2F2) to a complex photograph like a YouTube thumbnail, without compromising it's pure black and white contrast. Subtle drop shadows lift the logo off the screen ever so slightly to add depth and draw attention, a cue from Google's material design guidelines.

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This original logo remained the icon for Make Anything through the better part of 2017, appearing in various forms on all of my social media platforms, and of course on many 3D prints. 3D printing the logo was actually one of the main drivers that pushed me to do a redesign, since the thin lines were often difficult to translate into an easily printable 3D model. I often ended up having to thicken the lines for printing anyways, so in hindsight I should have done it much sooner. Also, how in the world did I never realize that the triangles weren't evenly spaced! If there is a design god may he have mercy on my soul.

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The new logo isn't remarkably different, but I do think it was a much needed improvement. In its new form, the logo is a more versatile. A thicker line weight means I can shrink the logo down further before it becomes difficult to read (very useful for the watermark in the corner of my videos and little profile bubbles on Twitter and elsewhere). It's also much easier for me to 3D print without making so many adjustments. I even designed a 3D version of the logo :

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I'm very happy with the logo now, and I'll be slowly updating everything with this makeover. Some redditors suggested designing a 2D logo based on the 3D version, like the image on the right. I do think it would look neat, but then I'd be backtracking on printability and such... let me know your thoughts in the comments! Oh, and I guess it's appropriate to mention, you can buy merch with both the new and classic logo over at Teespring. Awwww yiss!

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Welcome to the brand new Make Anything website!

Devin Montes October 4, 2017

     When I first started Make Anything 3D Printing Channel on YouTube in April 2016, I wasn't entirely sure of where it was headed, and I certainly didn't expect it to grow as rapidly as it has. By now I've shared well over 100 videos, and my goals have started to become more clear. What I want most out of Make Anything is to inspire people to see the world through the eyes of a creative problem solver. I want people to not just accept things the way they are, but to realize they can take control over their surroundings and impact others, hopefully to improve the world one baby step at a time.

     I am eager to popularize 3D printing and show people that they can benefit from the technology, even if they aren't necessarily designers or engineers. I think 3D printing has the potential to improve the world because it leads to rapid development of solutions, it minimizes transportation of manufactured goods, maximizes the lifespan of products, and improves the functionality of objects through hyper-personalization.

     My next step is to expand Make Anything beyond 3D printing. I hope to build a network of creatives young and old working together to solve problems, stay curious, and stay inspired. Creativity breeds positivity, and we could always use more of that! That's why I'm so excited about the launch of makeanything.design, it marks an important milestone for the expansion of Make Anything! I'm so glad you're here to join me on this journey, I think we'll have a lot of fun :)

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