Hi, my name is Luke Hornung, I’m a Formlabber, 3DHubber, 3D modeling teacher @ IED Milano, Founder of TheSignStudio.

When I contacted @Simona Ferrari (my hub support for my first prints @3DHubs) for the first time, I would of never thought that soon after we would of started a great project together like the Student program in collaboration with IED.

Everything started with a series of coincidences: My 3D modelling course with the second year students was about to start and I needed to understand how to engage my students in a subject that is evolving year after year & 3DHubs was in search of a partner for their “Student program”.

Soon after, Simona put me in contact with @Bali from 3DHubs, and together we thought of a cool way to spread the open source community philosophy to design students within the university where I teach.

This is how the idea started: We introduced a competition that had as a final goal the creation of iPhone covers that at first were sketched and thought out during Matteo Vilardo’s (my colleague at IED) drawing lessons, soon after we took the sketches and imported them in Rhino were they were 3d modeled during my course and at the end all the work was sent to 3DHubs so they could review&select the winners of this fantastic competition. You can download the model from my Thingiverse profile: http://www.thingiverse.com/lukehornung/designs

3D Hubs gave these students the chance to present their work during the “3DPRINT HUB” in Milan last week

Take a look and their wonderful work, and if you want, you can download them from Thingiverse by clicking directly on the link… check them out yourself !

Here you’ll find a brief description on their concepts!

Francesco Donati was inspired by one of his favourite brands… “Lomography”.

This cover works like the old “Fifteen game” but instead of having numbered tiles he chose to put colored filters and fish eye lenses in front of his iphone camera so he could produce interesting effect photos directly without any post processing of the image…What a great way to combine digital and analogue photography techniques all in one !

Silvia Radice was inspired by the perpetual movement of the sea. She managed to create the sensation of movement through a static object, a little bit like a sculpture does…

And last but not least… Roberto Trunfio who designed a cover that communicates what he calls: “protection sensation”. He managed to do this by giving the impression that the cover is made from huge elastic bands that wrap around the phone to protect it.

Enjoy