These rings designed by Brian Garret come in 3 different sets: Evil, Posh and Shrunk. Each set consists of 3 different icons in one theme, the Icons can easily be snapped on and off using the gold plated rare earth magnets.

Evil Series
Features a hot pink hand grenade, a royal blue bomb and an electric yellow tank. Where, when and how you choose to flaunt these pieces is all up to you. But you’ll sure make an impression.

Posh Series
Features three gorgeous gems in hot pink, royal blue and electric yellow. Where, when and how you choose to flaunt these pieces is all up to you—just the way we like it. After all, freedom and diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

Shrunk Series
Taking notable pieces from their collection and putting them in a digital shrinking machine, the limited edition ring set boasts three eclectically-shaped design creations. Because the best things come in small packages.

Available online in the Freshfiber online store for orders outside Europe we have the Cubify store.

Press images available on Flickr.

In addition to the best clothing brands, the store will also feature some of the most trendy Freedom Of Creation products, including men’s accessories. Freedom Of Creation pieces will be exhibited as true jewels of design among creations of Dolce&Gabbana, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent and many others big names from the fashion industry. There will also be on display a Cube 3D printer, which allows people to create their own accessories and designs. Moreover, next fall/winter, Freedom Of Creation will launch new fashion products and try new 3D personalization concepts in the FOUR by Azzurro store.

FOUR by Azzurro is located at PC Hooftstraat 127 in Amsterdam. For more information about the store, follow this link.

We will collaborate with media partner “The Pin Up Magazine” in order to get valuable insights into Pinup wishes and to select and promote the most desirable designs:

1. Inspire (July + August): The Pin Up Magazine will ask their 30K+ Facebook followers to share what would be their dream product. This can serve as inspiration when creating your product designs
2. Select (September): Through a Facebook poll Pinup followers can select which of your submitted designs they would like to see commercialized. FOC will do a preselection and checks if each design meets the brief
3. Promote (From December): Selected designs will be sold through the FOC distribution channels and will feature in an extensive marketing campaign, including multiple full page print ads in the Pin Up Magazine combined with an online blast

• The 3D-file of their design(s) in STL format
• 2 renderings of the design in Jpeg format
• A short description explaining the idea behind the design

Up till mid August you can consult the FOC designers and have them comment on your concepts.

Prizes
• 1st prize: the winner will receive 250,- euro in prize money
• 1st & Runners up: the selected entries will be commercialized and these Talents will receive 5% royalties and a free 3D printed copy of their design

Technical requirements
• Design should be producible in either:
a. (Dyed) Laser Sintered Nylon
b. Zcorp multi-color material. Zcorp prints are more brittle than Nylon and have a rougher feel. Also you need to apply texture maps to the 3D model, so make sure you first read up on the design rules here and here
• Product should fit within a 20 x 15 x 10 cm bounding box.
• The Nylon and multi-color price are roughly similar. The part price is partly based on the bounding box and partly on the sintered material volume

For the first time in The Netherlands people can see the brand-new Cube 3D-Printer at work. Furthermore a wide variety of 3D-printed interior and fashion products will be on display.

Exhibition address
Van Waay & Soetekouw
Markt 17
2611 GP Delft

Open from 9:30 am until 5:30 pm, May 18th and 19th

Lightnest” comes from the “lampshades nesting together into the wall,” explains the designer Frederik Roijé. The design is totally inspired by the beauty of nature and its unique shapes. The wall lamp shape brings to mind a group of soft mushrooms spreading light that gently illuminate every space in an exceptional way. The technique of 3D printing, which allows designers to create shapes impossible to be thought, has made possible the realization of details never seen before, such as small pleats reminiscent of the hyphae of mushrooms. Fluid and welcoming, Lightnest is a celebration of the nature elements: it attracts for the evocative design and for the warm atmosphere that it creates.

Lightnest is now available through Freedom Of Creation dealers or if there is no dealer near you; online.

Alan Nguyen possessed all these skills and much more, so we decided to buy him a computer, clear a bit of desk and let him go crazy. During his few months stay at Freedom Of Creation, Alan has already successfully finished several products and worked for a number of prestigious clients of ours. We welcome Alan on board!

Mash-up shoes together with Janne Kyttanen for Freshfiber

Lightnest created together with Frederik Roije for FOC.

F50 Adidas launch campaign by Alan Nguyen.

Freedom Of Creation @ 2012 Milan Design Week

In the heart of Milan, in the famous Brera area
17th-22nd April 2012
Place: Dream Factory, Corso Garibaldi 117, 20121 Milano
Metro: MM2 Moscova
Opening hours: 10 am-9 pm
INAUGURATION PARTY (RSVP on Facebook or by e-mail): Wednesday April 18th, doors open from 7 – 8 pm

Together with Frederik Roijé designs
17th-22nd April 2012
Place: Officina della Torniera, Via Novi 5, 20144 Milano
Metro: MM2 Porta Genova
Opening hours: 10 am-8 pm

The Heineken Innovation Challenge is the first to crowd source globally for sustainable beverage packaging concepts. Janne, an expert in 3D design, was selected to spend 48 hours in an undisclosed location, with just a web cam, laptop, and 3D printers like the Cube. Janne will demonstrate the entire ideation-to-production process through access to Cubify.com, 3D printers and tweets, Facebook posts and emails from observers on www.ideasbrewery.com

The Heineken Innovation Challenge entries will be submitted to internal sustainability experts for judging according to set criteria: innovation, feasibility and the most votes received at www.ideasbrewery.com. Selected designers will be invited to collaborate with Heineken to enhance and perfect their ideas.  At the conclusion of the Innovation Challenge, an Official Jury of external experts and Heineken management will select one overall winner, who will be notified in June 2012.

Lovegrove commented about the winning design: “I find erosion a fantastic provider of form and it could be a metaphor for infinite form. What I also like about this work is the contained object which has an almost tribal quality and something more contemporary in the way it is worn…I like its strength and wearability almost as if emotions can crawl inside and live there…ritualistic.”

The Cobble necklace is a precious collectible, visually intriguing as a complex piece of jewellery or as a beautiful, organic, and self-contained object. The Cobble necklace is now for sale in red or grey sparkle color.

Second place was awarded to the Park necklace design by Pekka Salokannel.  Pekka sees a park as a place to relax, have fun and celebrate.  The design is inspired by the concept of parks incorporating two separate and distinct styles (man-made and natural scenery) to express their intrinsic beauty.  The double faced necklace also has two distinctly unique sides that allow the wearer to express a different mood for different occasions. “It’s all about your mood at the moment – which side you love the most” explains Pekka. The Park necklace is now available in the FOC online store.

About Ross Lovegrove
Winner of numerous international awards his work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including the museum of modern art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Axis Centre, Japan, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the Design Museum, London, where in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection. Lovegrove was awarded the World Technology Award by Time magazine and CNN in November 2005. The same year, he was awarded the very prestigious Red Dot Design Award for the products created for VitrA.

About Louis Filosa
Louis is a designer from the United States and is trying to change the way the world perceives American design. He has worked under the direction of Karim Rashid, Marcel Wanders, and Michael Graves along with several other designers within many different product categories. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, he experiments with mixing European and American aesthetics into objects that speak globally and reflect the time in which we live.

About Pekka Salokannel
Pekka is a Finnish designer working fulltime on 3D printed designs. The Finnish polar night of the winter and the midnight sun during the summer create an inspirational scene for him, resulting in successful light, bag and accessory designs. In 2010, Pekka was winner of the FOC Talents lighting design contest with his Cresco design.

Equipped with 91 Palm shades and 5 Watt halogen bulbs, the chandelier is a real eye-catcher and is designed to light up large interior spaces. Light floods through and around every petal. Each shade, produced in polyamide with the latest 3D printing technology, recalls the beauty of nature’s foliage, and diffuses soft filtered light contributing to the exclusive atmosphere of the house. The metal frame has a special gunmetal finish. The Palm Chandelier outside diameter is 160 cm.

The bespoke Chandelier has a special gunmetal finish. Prices and technical details are available on request by sending an e-mail to bram@freedomofcreation.com

Furthermore the standard size Palm Chandelier was ordered for a smaller room. It has a diameter of 100 cm and comes with 37 halogen bulbs of each 10 Watt: