14 DAY TRIAL // Pasta is a very popular dish, or type of dishes, and it is also one that lends itself to 3D printing a lot more easily than most anything else. No wonder a contest was held just to see which new pasta shapes would be the best.
You can't exactly paste a slice of steak, unless you're willing to do it from gruel and just imitate the shape. Somewhat. Marginally. That weird, pink paste used in beef products notwithstanting.
Thinkgarage, a crowdsourcing platform for digital fabrication, launched a contest commissioned by Barilla, the world’s leading pasta brand.
The contest was called Printeat and has just concluded, after looking through submissions from 530 international product designers from more than 20 countries.
The total number of submissions that reached the hands of a “team of experts” was 216. Here are the winners.
Rosa Pasta from Loris Tupin, a French industrial designer from Maxilly sur Léman. It is a "bio-dynamic" 3D model that "blooms" into a rose when boiled.
Vortipa by Danilo Spiga and Luis Fraguarda (a product design team from Cagliari, Italy) is based on the vortex pattern progression system.
Lune, by Italian product designer Alessandro Carabini, who works in collaborative Studio Abaco in Paris, France, submitted a full moon with craters. Good for sauces, he says.
For a contest that ran for 60 days (from August 20th to October 20th, 2014), it yielded more than decent results. Let's hope we see the new pasta in stores soon.
