July 6, 2020
Leaping into the Unknown: Skyler Holobach
Meet Skyler Holobach who fearlessly and selflessly jumped into learning new skills to help others when they needed it most during COVID-19.
June 27, 2020
Beyond Civic Responsibility: Katie Hollenback
Meet Katie Hollenback, a teacher from one of the pandemic epicenters who stepped up to do the impossible in her actions to help her community, family, and students.
June 21, 2020
Leadership in Action: John Umekubo
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit many individuals were paralyzed with fear and uncertainty, but John Umekubo lept into action to help his community and hasn't stopped since.
June 17, 2020
Filament Color Contest
Budmen Filament is focused on affordably elevating the craft of 3D printing. We developed five subtle yet confident colors and need your help.
March 9, 2020
2020: A Patent Odyssey
While designing and engineering our large-scale industrial 3D printer, we created some technology worth protecting.
March 2, 2020
Where the Furniture Grows
3D Printers give us the ability to make almost anything. Working with this technology is an incredible opportunity to explore imagination. At Budmen Industries that means creating unique, custom, and futuristic furniture. For us, it is our passion and mission to explore the frontier of 3D printed furniture. We take great pride in how we […]
February 24, 2020
The Honey in the Cubby
Furniture comes in all shapes and sizes, and yet whenever you need that perfect thingamabob or exact whatchamacallit, you can never seem to find it. Here at Budmen Industries, we challenged ourselves to create a piece of furniture that can be customized and easily manufactured to meet a variety of different needs, we call it […]
February 17, 2020
A Buildini On The Line Saves Wine
Scout Vineyards had trouble sourcing a part to use a custom wine bottle on their bottling line. Discover how they saved money, time and wine with a Buildini.
February 10, 2020
Chef’s Adventures in Cloudland
It's a universal pastime to raise your eyes to the sky and let your imagination summersault through the clouds. But what do clouds taste like? Are they wispy and airy like a meringue? Are they sweet, sour, crunchy, or soft? Creating and designing a Cloud Cake is daunting: how do you capture a floating dream in the form of a delicious dessert? The challenge: create a […]
February 3, 2020
Brave Nom World
What if your computer created a dessert? What would it look like? Here at Budmen Industries, our computers and 3D printers put on their chef jackets to create show-stopping pastries. We call these computational confections Neon Nom Noms, the phenomenon you can nom on! These mouthwatering treats start the same way as most of our projects, as […]
January 20, 2020
The Great BAPE-sby
Lister X Budmen Sculpture at BAPE® in Tokyo Budmen Industries and the supremely talented artist Adam Lister have been collaborating for almost a decade now. Adam's watercolor paintings are truly abstract. Inspired by the 8-bit graphics of Atari and Nintendo, Adam pixelates famous paintings and cultural figures. To say Adam is prolific is an understatement, as evidenced […]
January 13, 2020
Of Cyborgs and Sculpture
The 3D Printed cyborg sculptures of Neil Harbisson created by the Budmen Studio are in museum collections in Germany, Singapore, Barcelona and Ireland.
January 6, 2020
The Printing Tree
3D Printing Trees from Recycled Plastic Bottles
December 30, 2019
Everyone Prints
Budmen Industries is all about the 3D printed plastic possibilities but have you found yourself wondering: How does 3D printing actually work? Don't worry! You are not alone. We get this question all the time. So often in fact, that we have created a 3D Printing Crash Course. It is chock full of everything you need to […]
December 23, 2019
For Whom the Buildini Draws
The Buildini™ 3D Printer was created for experimenting. In our workshop, we keep pushing it to see what new creative possibilities exist within its' gears and sprockets. We love to swap the extruder on the Buildini for a pen, pencil, or marker and then send it doodling away. The result is an amalgamation of the precision from a machine and the warmth and texture […]
December 16, 2019
The Batchbuilder’s Guide to Printing
When it comes to making parts for your latest creative project, it is rare to need just one. Chances are you will need a whole batch of parts. Perhaps you need many of one part or one of many parts! The large build volume of the Buildini has more than enough room to print dozens […]
December 2, 2019
The Sculpture Games
Discover the otherworldly sculptures of Jacolby Satterwhite printed on a Budmen Buildini 3D Printer at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.
Gone With The Small
Build bigger. Build better.The Buildini™ 3D Printer has a massive build size for printing big ideas and pushing your designs to new heights. Print stunning detailed props at full scale for your latest studio production. Create that pièce de résistance for your up coming art show that will capture the hearts and minds of attendees. […]
November 25, 2019
The Color Yellow
Not that long ago in a workshop not so far away... We built the Buildini™ as a reliable large format 3D printer for our own use in our creative studio. In our studio, experimentation is the name of the game. It is common to find 3D printers printing everything from pastry to fabric to furniture. Needless […]
November 18, 2019
Curious Case of Budmen Industries
It can be a little complicated to explain exactly what Budmen Industries does. So to make it simple, we boiled it down to this: We are one part creative studio + one part machine shop. In the creative studio, we craft unique and handcrafted furniture and art. In the machine shop, we create small-batch high-tech tools for […]
May 22, 2019
Designing the Stop Motion City
The city was designed to personify that image you get when close your eyes and imagine a vast urban landscape. We started designing this city with a massive 10ft x 2.5ft mural on paper with good old fashioned crayons. Few tools capture the feeling of childhood wonder like crayons and as we set out to […]
