3D printing has experienced a huge boom over the course of the past decade and the masterminds behind jewelry brand Fire & Bone decided to put it to some good use. They specialize in 3D-printed jewelry that takes shape of incredibly realistic tiny animal skulls.
Jason Bakutis founded this brand along with fellow 3D modeling wizards Chris Boynton and Matt Kroner. He did 3D printing and 3D sculpting work with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and The Morgan Library in New York City before starting Fire & Bone in 2013.
The trio met while working for the same 3D printing company in NYC, but that wasn’t the only thing they had in common. They were also all amateur naturalists and enjoyed going to natural science museums, and they’re now collaborating with many of them to make their jewelry as realistic as possible.
The main mission of Fire & Bone was to take full advantage of new technologies to create “incredibly accurate miniature skull replicas that are highly detailed and faithful to nature’s design.” The trio went one step further in the years to come, and we’ve seen them create jewelry inspired by extinct and fictional animals, including Game of Thrones dire wolves.
