May 18 2013
MakerBot® made with “Brooklyn pride,” is proud to be one of the selected New York City-based designers to be highlighted at the MoMA Design Store Destination: NYC – Made in the USA, that launches May 15, 2013, at the MoMA Design Stores in New York.
As part of the MoMA Design Store Destination: NYC – Made in the USA, MakerBot will showcase its MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D Printer (retailing for $2,199), as well as unique and iconic NYC-themed 3D printed novelty items ($7 each), such as the New York Public Library Lions “Patience and Fortitude;” the Statue of Liberty; the Empire State Building; the Chrysler Building Skyline; the Empire State Building Skyline; the Guggenheim Skyline; the Statue of Liberty Skyline; a New York City Subway Car; a New York City Taxi Cab; and iconic New York City street scenes of a subway entrance, a hot dog cart, and a Central Park Bench. There will even be a retro-inspired MakerBot-made MoMA-branded “Mix Tape” MP3 player ($45) and a cool MakerBot-made MoMA 3D printed watch ($68).
Destination: NYC – Made in the USA is MoMA Design Store’s 11th event in the Destination: Design series. The collection features approximately 200 lifestyle products by 75 New York designers including home accessories, furniture, paper goods, 3D printed items, and jewelry. All products are designed in one of the five boroughs of New York City and manufactured in the United States. Muted colors, graffiti art and pop culture iconography are a few elements of New York’s culture that will be celebrated in the product collection.
“MakerBot is very proud to have been invited to participate in the MoMA Design Store Destination: NYC – Made in USA program,” noted Bre Pettis, CEO of MakerBot. “MakerBots are made with Brooklyn pride and this is a great venue to showcase how 3D printing is helping fuel the Next Industrial Revolution – right here in New York. And the 3D printed MakerBot-made iconic New York scenes are something special to take home.”
Pettis noted that MakerBot is helping fuel the Next Industrial Revolution by offering desktop 3D printers that are used for rapid prototyping and personal manufacturing by engineers, architects, industrial designers, artists, educators, and people that just like to make things. MakerBot’s 3D Ecosystem makes the design and 3D printing process even easier by offering tools and services that bring the design and 3D printing process closer together, such as MakerBot’s website Thingiverse.com, that has more than 80,000 3D designs available for sharing and printing. Thingiverse.com has had more than 17 million downloads of items from its site. MakerBot’s 3D Ecosystem is also made up of its MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer, the MakerBot Store, MakerWare, MakerCare, the MakerBot 3D Photo Booth, Bre Pettis’ book “Getting Started with MakerBot,” classes and workshops on 3D printing, the soon-to-be-released MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, and strategic partnerships with like-minded companies, such as Autodesk and its 123D family of design products, OUYA, Nokia, Printcraft, MoMA, and many others.
“We are so impressed by the depth of local talent submitted during our Open Call for New York designers last year,” says Emmanuel Plat, Director of Merchandising of MoMA’s retail division. “The innovative products and unique designs truly reflect urban living and led us to create our largest collection to date.”
The Destination: NYC product collection will be available in MoMA Design Stores in New York City (11 West 53 Street, 44 West 53 Street, 81 Spring Street) and Tokyo and at MoMAstore.org, MoMAonlinestore.co.kr, and MoMAstore.jp beginning in May 2013 and running through August 2013. Destination: NYC is made possible by the generous support of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair® (ICFF®).
MakerBot will also showcase the capabilities of its 3D desktop printers in the MoMA Design Store, and the MoMA Design Store will be an authorized retail outlet where MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printers can be purchased on-site. The two locations offering MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printers will be at the New York City MoMA Design Store locations at 81 Spring Street and 44 West 53rd Street.
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