Inspiration

Roland DG customers are some of the most imaginative and creative people we've ever met. To support your creativity and need for inspiration,we have created a selection of blog entries to help you get inspired and excited about creating your next vehicle wrap, sign, custom graphic or prototype. The following content ranges from fun articles and infographics to customer interviews and print news.

Wrapping Future Vehicles

16 March 2016 Ben Fellowes Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Featured delorean car wrap , future car , hydrocar , self drive car , starship enterprise , vehicle wrap

What's cooler than boldly going where no man has gone before? Boldly going where no man has gone before with a sweet wrap emblazoned on your galactic transportation vehicle. To celebrate the release of Roland DG's new TrueVIS VG series, we're having a bit of fun, imagining what some future vehicles would look like if their graphics were produced on the future of print/cut devices.

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.

From Blank to Bank – A Product Making guide for digital printers!

14 December 2015 Amber Costa Cutters , Dye-Sublimation , Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Tips & Tricks , Featured customize gifts , holiday custom products , holiday gifts

Roland DGA presents a host of customized gift and product ideas and promotions for the holidays and beyond. Turn generic gift items and product blanks into something personal and cool! Here are a few of the many gift items that can be customized with Roland DG devices, including the cost of blanks and production, that we feel have that extra bit of sparkle and magic:

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.

A Closer Look at the Design and Typography of Unique Labels and Products

20 November 2015 Priya Garcia Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Tradeshows & Events , Featured print wine labels , tradeshow graphics , wine labels

As senior graphic designer at Roland DGA, one of my personal highlights each year is creating print samples to show-off the capabilities of our machines. We start these design and print projects by creating a pseudo print brand to showcase our specialty inks and features such as print/cut. Like everything at Roland DGA, this is a team effort and with the help of amazing freelance illustrators like Joe Diaz, these projects are always some of our most eye-catching and impressive.

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.

A Print Wonderland! Take a 3D Look Inside our Roland DGA Headquarters

09 October 2015 Roland DGA Inspiration , Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Featured roland dga , roland dga custom products , roland dga products , roland printers

If you’ve never visited our Roland DGA headquarters in Irvine, then here’s a first person 3D look at our Creative Center and showroom via the power of Google. If you can’t stop by our Irvine office to say hello and to take a look at some of the cool graphics on display, this is the next best thing.

Meet Some Successful Large Format Graphics Businesses and Discover Why they Chose Roland DG

24 September 2015 Roland DGA Inkjet Printers & Printers/Cutters , Inspiration , Featured roland inkjet , roland print customer stories , roland printer customers , roland vs latex

At Roland DGA, we love our customers and we’re inspired by what they do with Roland DG products. We recently visited three Roland DGA customers who are doing really exciting things in the sign and graphics industry and asked them why they chose Roland DG printers. Here is a short video of what they had to say:

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.

The Fab11 Conference – Inspiring and Hacking into the Future

19 August 2015 Tiffany Wakimoto Inspiration , Milling & 3D Printing , Featured fab lab mit campus , fab labs , fab11 conference boston , fablab11

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Am I doing enough to make an impact on this world?” That’s how I felt when I arrived at the Fab11 conference in Boston, but by the end of the day, I was INSPIRED. The conference, held on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus was full of passionate people sharing projects to encourage creativity and ingenuity, and to make digital fabrication accessible to everyone, everywhere. I met some exceptional people who are introducing the concept of fabrication and technology to children in the most rural areas of the world who may never have seen a computer before to educate and encourage them to use their imaginations to create and build.