News: a 3D printer on the International Space Station has produced its first object, "paving the way to future long-term space expeditions" according to the US space agency NASA. More about NASA 3D prints its first object aboard the International Space Station
News: Foster + Partners has teamed up with building contractor Skanska to pioneer the use of 3D-printed concrete in the construction industry. More about Foster + Partners works on "world's first commercial concrete-printing robot"
Neri Oxman's team at MIT Media Lab has created four 3D-printed "wearable skins" designed to facilitate synthetic biological processes that might one day allow humans to survive on other planets. More about Neri Oxman creates wearable 3D-printed structures for interplanetary voyages
News: 3D printing company MakerBot has enlisted the help of American lifestyle guru Martha Stewart to develop a range of custom printable designs and new filament colours with "artisanal character". More about Martha Stewart launches 3D printing products with MakerBot
Water flows both up and down from this dual-nozzled faucet designed by ECAL graduate Alice Spieser, which combines the functionally of a standard tap with a drinking fountain (+ movie). More about Alice Spieser's 3D-printed tap aims to make drinking from the faucet more dignified
Paris design studio Appropriate Audiences has combined a 3D printer with a tattooist's needle to form an automated tattoo "printer" that can create indelible artworks on skin (+ movie). More about French designers hack a 3D printer to make a tattooing machine
The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) used its annual conference to showcase products created with the latest additive manufacturing technologies, including a chair by architect Zaha Hadid that can be 3D-printed on-demand (+ slideshow). More about ACADIA exhibits multi-material 3D-printed designs by Zaha Hadid, Francis Bitonti and more
Dutch Design Week 2014: designers Unfold, Kirschner3D and Penny Webb have developed a set of instruments that measure physical objects and transfer the dimensions to a digital model in real time on screen (+ movie). More about Analogue wood and brass tools transformed into digital measuring devices
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen revealed 3D-printed garments and accessories "grown" with magnets during her ready-to-wear show in Paris yesterday. More about Iris van Herpen uses 3D printing and magnets to form Spring Summer 2015 fashion collection
Fashion and technology: New York fashion designer Francis Bitonti has used a mathematical model to "grow" pairs of shoes with gradients of colour on a 3D printer. More about Francis Bitonti creates pixellated 3D-printed shoes using cellular automation
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the penultimate preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, which opens to the public tomorrow, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez shows us how he will generate personalised 3D-printable driving companions for visitors at the show. More about Matthew Plummer-Fernandez to present "personalised avatars for your vehicle"
Designer Gerard Rubio has created an open source robotic loom that is able to knit entire seamless garments in less than one hour (+ movie). More about OpenKnit is an open source 3D-knitting machine that creates garments in just one hour
Eindhoven designer Olivier van Herpt has developed a machine that uses a piston-based extruder to 3D-print complex functional objects using clay (+ slideshow). More about Olivier van Herpt 3D-prints functional ceramic objects
Israeli fashion designer Noa Raviv has integrated 3D-printed elements into ruffled garments influenced by distorted digital drawings. More about Noa Raviv combines grid patterns and 3D printing for Hard Copy fashion collection
Footwear brand United Nude has designed a shoe that can be 3D-printed at home on a compact desktop machine (+ slideshow). More about United Nude's Float shoes are created on a desktop 3D printer
Design graduate Lilian van Daal has developed a conceptual chair influenced by plant cells that could be 3D-printed from a single material (+ slideshow). More about Biomimicry chair by Lilian van Daal replaces traditional upholstery with 3D-printed structure
Writer Geoff Manaugh and designer John Becker have imagined a scenario in which genetically modified bees could be trained to print detailed concrete structures rather than produce honey (+ interview). More about Bees could 3D-print "concrete honey" to form architectural structures
Italian architect Andrea Morgante of Shiro Studio has 3D-printed 25 versions of beer brand Peroni Nastro Azzurro's new bottle design. More about Andrea Morgante abstracts Peroni beer bottle into 3D-printed shapes
Paris-based Italian designer Giuseppe Bessero Belti has designed a collection of vases that combine 3D printing with repurposed paraffin lamp chimneys (+ slideshow). More about Flowers replace flames in paraffin lamp vases by Giuseppe Bessero Belti
Nike has followed up its knitted running, soccer and basketball shoes with designs for American football boots made using the same Flyknit technology (+ slideshow). More about Nike combines Flyknit and 3D printing to design American football boots