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Help Crowdfund The Largest 3D Print In North America

These days, anyone can become a patron of the arts.

In the age of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, there’s really no excuse to not go out there and try to realize that dream project you’ve always wanted to do. And the dream project of JF Brandon is to simply create North America’s largest piece of 3D-printed art, the Rygo, and he’s asking for your money to help him—you can donate on the project’s page on funding platform IndieGoGo. The piece will be designed by CAD sculptor Bathsheba Grossman and will be installed at Gropp’s Gallery of Vancouver.

Brandon explains:

We are combining high technology and high art to create something very special – the Rygo. Standing 2 meters tall, it will be the largest such 3D print of any type in North America (quite possibly the Western hemisphere) and will be installed for all the world to see at Gropp's Gallery of Vancouver, Canada. Crowdfunding the Rygo reflects the best qualities of Vancouver – organic design supported by a grassroots movement. This is also an international effort! The Rygo will be printed in Italy by Enrico Dini's DShape, itself the largest 3D printer of its kind, measuring 6 × 6 × 8 meters (20 × 20 × 27 ft). The Rygo was designed by famous 3D designer and sculptor Bathsheba Grossman of California, utilizing esoteric math and an artistic touch to craft a piece that would have been un-makeable by any other means.

[via Beyond the Beyond]