3D Printing  

Designer Jessica Rosenkrantz of the firm Nervous System has been busy experimenting with full color 3D printing. The 'Colony' prints are perhaps inspired by underwater creatures and their vivid colors.

3D printing and design are the specialties of the firm, Nervous System.

Now designer Jessica Rosenkrantz has been busy experimenting with full color 3D printing. Nervous System was founded in 2007 by Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Jessica currently acts as Creative Director and Jesse as Chief Science Officer. Together they lead a team of seven.

Nervous System's designers create using a novel process that employs computer simulation to generate designs and digital fabrication to realize products. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, they write computer programs based on processes and patterns found in nature and use those programs to create unique and affordable art, jewelry, and housewares.

Each print in the new collection is 4 to 6 inches, the meshes are generated by the Processing computer language and 3D printed by Shapeways.

Rosenkrantz must have been inspired by her coral-filled fish tank because these gorgeous "Colony" prints remind one of diving in the Caribbean.