{"id":19538,"date":"2015-01-05T20:57:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T20:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=19538"},"modified":"2015-01-05T21:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:34:04","slug":"designer-spotlight-florin-grigore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/designer-spotlight-florin-grigore","title":{"rendered":"Designer Spotlight: Florin Grigore"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are highlighting Florin Grigore, an artist with sociology and law education background, Florin has taken his self-taught skills and artistic background to create a beautiful shop<\/a> full of unique and fresh jewelry.<\/p>\n

Tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? Where are you located?<\/em>
\nI’m a self-taught designer born and living in Bucharest, Romania with a background in fine art and formal education in sociology and law with a main focus on Intellectual Property.<\/p>\n

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What’s the story behind your designs? What inspires you?<\/em>
\nInspiration comes in two ways : A) Researching other designs and other designers and seeing where they fail and add ideas. B) Random ideas from everywhere that are combined to become a new one. Stacking up 5 ideas in one design to make it original it is itself is a big challenge that I like to take.<\/p>\n

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What brought you to 3D printing with Shapeways?<\/em>
\nI was reading some tech related sites and stumbled on 3D Printing news, and from there I have learned that 3D printing was applied to metal casting and silver in particular.<\/p>\n

How did you learn how to design in 3D?<\/em>
\nLearning 3D was a long road. First I learned Blender 3D then got indication on forums that I need to learn to draw in order to use the software to the full potential. So basically any online tutorials from blogs, YouTube, CGI communities and others.<\/p>\n

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How do you promote your work?<\/em>
\nI promote my work on Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who are your favorite designers or artists? Who in the Shapeways community has served as an inspiration to you?<\/em>
\nIn no specific order: JoyComplex<\/a>, LucasPlus<\/a>, FabMeJewelry<\/a>, UniverseBecoming<\/a>, MayCrown<\/a>. I don’t want to upset anyone, so for me all members of Shapeways community are nice!<\/p>\n

If you weren’t limited by current technologies, what would you want to make using 3D printing?<\/em>
\n3D print a full space ship and travel to other universes around!<\/p>\n

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Anything else you want to share?<\/em>
\nJewelry is a piece of history and a cultural heritage, it represents the future and the past, the fight and the struggle, the emotion and commotion of emotions, it is a lasting memory of a relative and the bridge of social interaction when there it is the lack of communication. Pendants in particular are for the children, father, mother, friends, lovers and can save a human life at the brink of depression!<\/p>\n

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