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Irene Healey – “My strengths are coming up with new designs for prostheses and working with patients to develop products specific to their needs”

May 2, 2018 by Nora Toure

Irene Healey is a visual artist and Certified Clinical Anaplastologist with over 20 years of experience providing restorative lifelike and functional external body prostheses to patients who have lost a part of their body. She tells us more here about how she uses 3D Printing when building a prosthesis. Irene, could you let us know about your background and what brought you to 3D printing in the first place? I am a sculptor and have always been interested in the […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: artist, healthcare, New York, prosthetics

Virginia Estrada – “Sharing our experiences and working together as women is so important”

November 22, 2017 by Nora Toure

Virginia Estrada is a lifelong artist and sculptor, with an extra passion for hand-carving alabaster, wood, and metal. She has designed women’s fashion and jewelry collections, interior designs and home decor products. Her photographs have been displayed as on-air set design at CNN and in private collections. We were thrilled to have her as one of our guests during last May’s #3DTalk Talk: 3D Printing & Design panel, in New York City. Virginia, could you let us know about your background and what brought […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: designer, fashion, New York

Is 3D Printing really reshaping the work of the designer?

May 14, 2017 by Nora Toure

Is 3D Printing really reshaping the work of the designer? Designers were among the first group of people taking advantage of 3D Printing when software development aligned with the technological advancement of printers, bringing the technology more accessible to all. We’ve had a lot of talks and presentations over the last 10 years explaining how 3D Printing changed the work of the designers. But, is it really reshaping the work, in the sense that it is totally disrupting the way things […]

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Irene Healey – “My strengths are coming up with new designs for prostheses and working with patients to develop products specific to their needs”

Virginia Estrada – “Sharing our experiences and working together as women is so important”

Is 3D Printing really reshaping the work of the designer?