Textured vases offer a variety of design ideas. They make good decorations and desk organizers (though not always good water-holding vessels, especially printed in Vase Mode.)
Some designers even specialize in twisty vases.

Textured vases offer a variety of design ideas. They make good decorations and desk organizers (though not always good water-holding vessels, especially printed in Vase Mode.)
Some designers even specialize in twisty vases.
This is a collection of interesting logos from all over Printables.com. They are of all sorts, single-color, multi-color, large, small. Use them as inspiration for what can be done or download and print one out for yourself.
If you have a logo you’d like to learn to model into a 3-D printable file, I’d suggest Inkscape and OpenSCAD as reasonable, free, open-source tools that can help you do that.
If you’d like a logo turned into a 3-D printable file or want your logo 3-D printed, send us an inquiry with the specifics.
I decided to participate in WeTheBuilders‘ most recent project to make a large, distributed, crowd-sourced 3-D printed statue.
This latest project was a statue of Charon, the psychopomp Styx ferryman of Greek mythology, sculpted by Ryan Kittleson. This collaboratively-printed sculpture was displayed at Loveburn 2025, in Miami in February 2025 and is now back in Baltimore awaiting display in a more permanent home.
A full gallery of the assembly process and final display at the festival.
Participating in the crowd-sourced project was a great experience. I ended up printing 4 pieces for the Charon statue. They provide the .STLs (via a check-out mechanism), you provide the plastic, the printing, and shipping to them.
Some quick facts about the project:
Full credit where due: the WeTheBuilders team ran logistics, conceptualized the project and sculpture, received and assembled the parts, and transported the finished project from Baltimore to Miami and back.
I look forward to participating in future WeTheBuilders projects and would encourage you to look into participating as well. At the very least, consider a bookmark and visit the site occasionally for updates.
Recently we’ve worked on several projects to re-create hard-to-get classic car parts, exact-fit custom parts for restorations, and custom adapters.
The first featured part that we designed was a custom fit cluster plate for the center dash/console for a 60’s era resto-mod Camaro project. The owner had two new gauges they wanted to mount where the radio fit, so they provided pictures, measurements of the dash opening, the gauges themselves, and a hand sketch to give us an starting point for their desired solution. We iterated several times with various prototype solutions to do test fits, got feedback, and adjusted the angles of the two gauges to the customer’s desires.
Our second project was to adapt a MK6 VW emblem to the trunk lid of a MK5 VW. The newer VW emblem has a subtle body curve to the mounting surface while the inset badge mounting location on the car is flat. We carefully measured, calculated, and designed a slim adapter plate that fit both the car surface on one side and the curve on the back of the badge perfectly. Some carefully-applied 3M emblem adhesive strips on both sides on both sides of the adapter firmly attached the emblem. A jig was designed to fit in and center on the inset location on the car to assure the emblem and adapter were exactly centered onto the car.
A recent check showed that the adapter is still in place, surviving hot Alabama summers, and performing well 10 years after it was installed.
*If you are removing stock emblems or trying to clean up the remaining adhesive residue, use 3M Auto Adhesive Remover.
The most recent project in this genre we’ve tackled was to duplicate a hard-to-find mid-1960s Dodge trim clips for a customer’s restoration project.
There area couple things to take into consideration if you are attempting this yourself:
If you are looking to have a rare part duplicated or a custom part designed please feel free to reach out to us with your requirements for a quotation. We’d be glad to design and draft your part and can print your parts as well. We can also do print-on-demand if you
The title of “Prusa Approved Designer” was awarded at by the Printables Team at its discretion to recognize and reward long-term, consistent, and high-quality work. As of September 2022, there were 15 “Prusa Approved Designers” on Printables.com. I’ve compiled them here for easy reference and one-page access in case you’d like to explore their profiles. Consider checking out, following, and supporting these successful and hard working designers if they interest you.
(It appears Printables.com got rid of this award, so I’m archiving this here for posterity.)
(in chronological order)
(All values are a snapshot only. Follow the profile links if you want to know a user’s current accomplishments.)
See all the other Printables.com statistics pages on this blog.
Steve Warren makes hundreds of cool, organic twisty vase designs. He posts his latest vase designs on xSteve profile on Printables and also on his Thingiverse profile. He regularly removes older designs, so if you see something you like, download a copy.
layer.works is a full-service design/consult/teach/make 3-D printing service provider, based in Central Alabama.
We do custom product design, custom prototyping, mass production, training, troubleshooting, and consultation in additive- and subtractive-fabrication and manufacturing. We also do low-voltage custom, animated LED light solutions.
A sampling of projects we’ve worked on:
If you have 3-D printing, 3-D design, large-format CNC (4×8 foot), or low-voltage LED lighting needs, send us an inquiry and we’ll get back to you quickly.
Not sure if we can help you? Drop us a line with details of your vision or needs and we’ll get back with you to figure out how we might work together or help to point you in the right direction.
We use and support Open Source hardware, software, principles, and methods whenever we can.
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