Lisa Harouni is in the vanguard of a wave of entrepreneurs who want to make it easy for anyone to design and create bespoke products at the click of a button.

"I believe it's going to cause a revolution," said Harouni, speaking on stage at Wired 2011 in London this afternoon. "3D printers have been around for 25 years, but they're only now coming into the public arena?"

Why? "Put your hand up if you know how to use a CAD package," Harouni asks the audience. A few brave hands go up, but most of the audience look like they're not entirely sure what CAD even stands for. "That's why. If I gave you a 3D printer, you wouldn't be able to use it."


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Digital Forming presents in Geneva, at the ITU Telecom World 2011! On October 27th, co-founder and strategy director, Nicolas, presented Digital Forming as one of four companies with "disruptive future gazing applications".  Chaired by Aape Pohjavirta, panel speakers included Stanley Yang of NeuroSky, Peter Meier of Metaio and Kate Stone of Novalia. 
ITU Telecom World 2011 brings Heads of State, Government & International organizations together with company CEOs, Mayors of top cities, thought leaders, innovators, researchers and more.

It provides a platform to network, share knowledge, seek solutions to global challenges and design a Manifesto for a connected world on how connected technologies can make global citizens happier, healthier, safer and smarter.

Watch the panelist present their exciting businesses at the link below.

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The buzz around Digital Forming is spreading to the Far East as some of our ODOs and CODOs are hitting Tokyo Designers' Week.  The general public will have the opportunity to check out what we've been getting up to half way around the globe while we hope that our concept helps inspire designers to get involved as well.  Some of Assa's designs will be displayed, while NTT Data Engineering Systems, part of Japan's largest telecoms company and those exhibiting our concepts for us, are putting on a CODO software demo for anyone to try out.  If you're in the Shinjuku region of Japan's capital next week, look them up and be inspired!

The show is on 1st-6th November, with more information on what's going on at the link below.

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Wired 2011 - the new, annual conference hosted by Wired magazine promoting the most innovative, disruptive projects in motion today - played host to many intriguing ideas just a couple of weeks ago.  Digital Forming made for a natural fit at the conference, with Lisa taking to the stage and wowing those in attendance with a stream of concepts at the heart of Digital Forming's business model.  Ranging from additive manufacturing to mass customization, the audience got to grips with the technology fast with the help of the now-famous fabricated violin, and a couple of cool gifts supplied by us in partnership with EOS.

Wired were first on the scene to publish about Lisa's talk, linked below.

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Lisa has been invited to TED to talk about mass manufacturing, Digital Forming and the next industrial revolution.  TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design), provides hundreds of forums around the world every year for some truly great ideas to be shared and  Lisa will be able to add to that melting pot on 10th November at a TED salon event in London.

Keep an eye out for more info on this, coming soon!

Last week, the DF team spent time at 3D printing convention TCT Live 2011.  On Monday, Lisa gave a talk about democratising design using 3D printing technologies to an audience of industry insiders, which went down very well.  On Tuesday, it was the team's turn to be educated, as they got to stretch their legs and have a look at different 3D printing solutions presented on the showfloor.  Day three was all about meeting some interesting contacts and wrapping up a very productive show.

Check out the slideshow below to see a glimpse of what we were up to (use the slider at the bottom of the slideshow to navigate between pictures).  Click the link below for more information about TCT Live.

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London Design Festival at the V&A saw Digital Forming’s creative director, Assa Ashuach, present a selection of his designed products ‘opened’ through Digital Forming’s collaborative design software. The installation took place at the V&A Porter Gallery, Sacker Centre and Garden as part of the LDF Digital Design Weekend, curated by Irini Papadimitriou. With a vibrant selection of Assa’s product designs on show, the installation was a big hit! Attendees of all ages were invited to tweak Assa’s designs through the Digital Forming platform and to learn more about how their co-designed products could be manufactured for them locally at London Metropolitan University using additive manufacturing processes (aka ‘3D printing’).

To see what we got up to, check out the photo slideshow below (use the slider at the bottom of the slideshow to see more photos).  For more info on London Design Festival at the Victoria & Albert, follow the link below.

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With Wired 2011 coming up in just a few short weeks, the magazine is releasing profiles at Wired.co.uk on all of the key speakers it has invited to present.  Lisa has her own page on the site, where Wired give a quick introduction of Digital Forming and quote Lisa about her vision for 3D printing and how it will take the world for its own!

You can now find Wired 2011 through the front page of Wired.co.uk.  
The two-day event takes place on 13th and 14th October in Central London.  
Tickets are available now!

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Digital Forming is drawing an ever-greater amount of attention as the months go by.  In the below video, David Rowan of Wired magazine and The Times newspaper talks about the new possibilities 3D printing is offering at Stream 2011, an event for the exchange of ideas between the best in creative, media and technology industries.  David highlights the EOS Stradavarius that appeared on the front cover of The Economist in February, the work done by our sister company Within and how Digital Forming will democratize design for the masses.

For more information about Stream 2011, click here