Female Web Graphics Designers, a revolution is beginning. Join it now! 3D printing is available to the public in a practical commercial way. Google announced on June 19 that it is spending 50 million dollars to teach ladies to learn to code so they can participate in the new customize product revolution created by 3D printing. The key question for us is why would Google want to do this? The answer is 3D printing is greatly reducing the cost of manufacturing. The practices of casting and molding are no longer needed when designing many products. This opens up countless new opportunities to designers who could not bring their ideas to market in the past. Shapeways is the leading company in this new field and the company signed an exclusive deal with Google. If you have a pashon to be a graphic designer, you can learn to write applications, which will turn your ideas and talent into a way to create and sell popular customized products. It will not cost you any money to design and receive your first customized product from Shapeways, the Google sponsored leader in this field. Who is Shapeways? Shapeways is the leading 3D printing marketplace and community, empowering designers to bring amazing products to life. By giving anyone the ability to quickly and affordably turn ideas from digital designs into real products, Shapeways is fundamentally changing how products are made and by whom. Through Shapeways, designers gain access to the best industrial 3D printing technology, capable of manufacturing products with complex designs in a wide range of high-quality materials. 3D printing turns raw materials into original products, from wedding rings to rocket ships, model trains to iPhone cases, and prototypes to industrial engineering parts. The Shapeways community can sell their products, share ideas, and get feedback from creative consumers and other designers around the world. Headquartered in New York, Shapeways has factories and offices in Eindhoven, Queens, and Seattle. Shapeways is a spin off out of the lifestyle incubator of Royal Philips Electronics, and the Company’s investors include Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Lux Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. If you have training as a graphic designer, you will be able to code and write a 3D printed product for sale. Click on Shapeways link below to view an actual product being created by using 3D printing. shapeways/madewithcode?li=topbanner-mwc 3D printed bracelets from Shapeways, as part of the new Google Made with Code initiative. Shapeways, the fast growing 3D printing company has hired more than 10 new employees to help with Google’s Made with Code program. On Thursday, June 19, 2014 Google won accolades for Made with Code, its new $50 million campaign designed to inspire more young girls to become interested in science and technology. Google introduced the initiative weeks after revealing that a mere 30% of its employees are female. Alongside spokeswomen Chelsea Clinton and Mindy Kaling, Google’s Made with Code aims to inspire girls to take up the art of code-writing, through software projects, online resources, and collaborations with groups like Girl Scouts of America and Seventeen magazine. Google will also donate $1 million to fund DonorsChoose.org rewards for girls who complete a coding course on Codecademy and Khan Academy. One piece of the project comes with physical rewards: Using a programming editor and Shapeways’ 3D printing apps, girls can build a custom bracelet manufactured and shipped for free using Shapeways, the 3D printing startup based in New York. Shapeways expects the partnership to more than double its current output of 3D printed objects. It has acquired four of the largest 3D printers from printer maker EOS, giving it the capacity to print 8000 bracelets daily. In order to handle all the orders, Shapeways has hired more than 10 new employees. The company has gone from manufacturing during daytime only, to 24-hour operations. “This is a major deal for us,” Shapeways CEO Peter Weijmarshausen says. A year ago, Shapeways raised $30 million in a round of venture funding led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funds raised to $48.5 million. That money went, in part, to expanding the company’s 25,000 square foot 3D printing factory in Long Island City. The company allows designers to develop 3D designs for anything from drone parts to model trains to 3D press-on finger nails. Designers can upload their designs to Shapeways’ site and sell those objects through their own Shapeways stores. If all goes as planned, some of the girls may become interested enough in 3D printing and design to create their own Shapeways shops. “The skeptics in the market would say, ‘How is 3D printing relevant?’” says Weijmarshausen. “This is one awesome example where 3d printing is inspirational.” “I have a lot of hope that they become the software designers and shop owners of tomorrow,” he adds. ABCO Technology offers courses in graphic design, computer programming, coding and Ecommerce. The 3D printing opportunity by Shapeways is one you don’t have to miss. Call our school from 9AM to 6PM Monday through Friday at (310) 216-3067. You can email our team at: info@abcotechnology for our next schedule of classes. Start learning to write those great 3d Printing applications today! Article by Melissa Waltch
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:46:51 +0000
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