Case Study: Otis College of Art & Design achieves award‑winning, runway‑ready 3D‑printed garments with Stratasys 3DFashion™ technology

Otis College of Art & Design Creates Outof-This-World Garments with Activision Blizzard using 3DFashion™ Technology

Otis College of Art & Design, a national leader in art and design education, tasked its fashion students with creating an editorial collection inspired by a military robot from Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Faced with the need for highly intricate silhouettes, optical-illusion effects and a tight production schedule—limitations that traditional fabric blocking and laser cutting could not overcome—the school partnered with Stratasys and its 3DFashion solution, notably the J850 TechStyle 3D printer, to explore direct-to-textile 3D printing for the project.

Stratasys implemented the J850 TechStyle 3D printer and 3DFashion direct‑to‑textile technology, enabling full-color, multi-material printing directly onto fabric (with access to over 600,000 colors and multiple shore values) to realize complex designs quickly. The technology produced runway-ready, award-winning garments—including Kiki Zuo’s winning piece—delivered unique optical effects and allowed a fusion of 3D printing and hand knitting, and it shortened the production timeline by about four weeks, demonstrating clear impact on student outcomes and curriculum integration.

Otis College of Art & Design

Jill Higashi Zeleznik

Chairman