Printing an entire car: From Winning design concept - Strati - from the Local Motors 3D Printed Car Design Challenge. Created by Michele Anoe from Turin, Italy. (Photo: Business Wire) - Press Release - Digital Journal

Local Motors, Inc. is excited to announce the winners of the first 3D Printed Car Design Challenge that was launched in April to uncover concepts that will inform and influence the vehicle that will be printed live at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 in Chicago, Illinois, September 8-13, 2014. More than 200 entries, representing submissions from 30+ countries around the globe, were submitted during the six-week challenge. After a weeklong voting period and review of all entries by an independent panel of expert judges, a total of seven designs were selected as winning concepts.

The winning concept, Strati, created by Michele Anoé of Italy, will highly inspire the full-size 3D printed prototype. “It’s simple and clean, with character,” said challenge judge and MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis. “It has a nice style that really hangs together.” Lonnie Love, Group Leader, Robotics and Manufacturing Systems Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, added, “Michele’s design offers an excellent balance between innovation, complexity and practicality. It has good 3D lines and the retractable roof is really cool.”

to see some of the designs: https://localmotors.com/iMAN/aeroblade/ and
https://localmotors.com/idesigncars/...ign-challenge/