Ben Fellowes

Digital Designer Loadus and His Devious Plotting

18 February 2016 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Featured digital design , jukka korhonen , loadus , old school tech , roland plotter

Jukka Korhonen (Loadus) from Jyväskylä, Finland is a master of digital design, including CAD, CG artwork, game design and photography. He is one of those rare individuals who’s never satisfied with just one type of creative endeavor and actively seeks out new technology, production methods and media. Roland DG first discovered his designs after we saw an online video he created of a brilliantly rendered AT-AT from Star Wars being plotted out with an “old school” Roland DG DXY-1150A machine.

NOTLabs Stands Out with Custom Milled Wooden POP Displays

10 December 2015 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Milling & 3D Printing , Featured cnc milling , david kind eyewear , notcot , roland dga

Roland DGA talked to Shawn Sims, Director of NOTLabs about his latest milling project. NOTLabs, the production arm of inspiration site, NOTCOT, has completed yet another amazing 3D milling project that we’re excited to share. Shawn Sims, who was responsible for milling Andrew Bell’s skull design and the Jurassic Park Lego planters has taken milling to the next level with his latest project for David Kind Eyewear.

Toy Designer Andrew Bell and the Creatures Inside His Head

20 October 2015 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Milling & 3D Printing andrew bell , android bot toy , dead zebra , vinyl toy making , vinyl toys

Our friends at NOTLabs recently milled a design on their MDX-540S using a 3D file from artist and toy designer, Andrew Bell. The results were awesome and we jumped at the chance to talk to Andrew about his design work and the bizarre, unique and super-cool characters he creates.

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Great Car Wrap Design

02 September 2015 Ben Fellowes Tips & Tricks , Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Featured vehicle wrap , vehicle wraps do's and dont's , vehicle wrap tips , vehicle wraps

Before you start designing, you should size up the vehicle. Photograph the vehicle from all sides and take key measurements of the sides, hood, rear, roof and bumpers, then scale the photos accordingly in your design software.

GoPro Camera Accessory 3D Printed

31 July 2015 Ben Fellowes Milling & 3D Printing , Featured arm 10 3d parts printing , gopro 3d print , gopro 3d printed accessories , gopro 3d stl

Roland DG’s monoFab ARM-10 is the kind of device that helps engineers, product designers, artists and other creative people solve problems. At our Roland DG headquarters in Irvine, that’s exactly what we find ourselves doing more and more, as we continue to discover new ways to use this handy desktop 3D printer.

Planting a Jurassic Idea with NOTLabs and Roland DG 3D Milling Technology

18 June 2015 Ben Fellowes Milling & 3D Printing , Featured 3d milling , jurassic world toys , lego prototype , notlabs , roland mdx-540

Roland DGA talked to Shawn Sims from NOTLabs about his Jurassic World Toys project and prototyping with the MDX-540S. To coincide with the merchandising of its Jurassic World collection of movie themed products, Target reached out to design trendsetters, NOTCOT, to see what they could come up with. With the help of the Roland DG MDX-540S rapid prototyping machine, they created custom designed and milled desktop planters that look like Lego® pieces and are simply “Rex’trodinary.”

With Roland DG Videos #2 – Roland DG Machines In-Action

21 May 2015 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Featured print machine videos , printing videos , roland printing video , with roland video

Our With Roland DG video contest generated a great response from Roland DGA customers who allowed us into their businesses and lives to share how Roland DG machines have helped them grow and succeed. The contest is now over and the winner of a brand new Roland DG has been chosen, but we loved watching all the video entries, so we’d like to share some of them here. In the second of our series of videos that celebrate our With Roland DG entrants and the amazing work they do, here is a sample of the videos that show Roland DGA customers in-action.

The WithRoland DG Video Contest

21 April 2015 Ben Fellowes Tradeshows & Events , Inspiration , Featured free roland printer , roland contest , roland dga video , win a roland printer , with roland

See some of the videos that are making us smile, laugh and cry and enter your own. Who knew that Roland DG print devices could help you fall in love, feed some fish, or get you out of a snowstorm? With less than two weeks to go in our WithRoland DG video contest, we’re calling for Roland DG users to share their video story to win a Roland DG product of their choice and we’re already discovering so much about our customers and how they use Roland DG technology. Here are just a few entries that we’d like to share with you in hope that you too will be inspired to put your WithRoland DG story on film:

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print and begin to build.

How Small Business Entrepreneurs Can Become a Magnet for Luck

13 March 2015 Ben Fellowes Inspiration , Featured famous business quotes , good luck in business , make luck in business , small business tips

Don’t wait for good things to happen- go out there and make luck work for you! The old adage that success can be achieved by simply outworking the other guy definitely has validity to it. However, it’s widely accepted that “luck” also plays a major role in any business success. As super entrepreneur and multi-billionaire Richard Branson confessed in a recent online interview:

What Print Color is This Dress?

06 March 2015 Ben Fellowes Color Management , Featured color management , print color of dress , what color is this dress

What color is this dress? We don’t see blue and black, or white and gold, we only see color management, color perception and output control that can be put into practice. To the uninitiated out there, the following blog post explores the issue of converting color we see onscreen to something which exists in the physical world as printed graphics, and how those colors will be output and perceived.