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A fidget clicker featuring two faces outlined in red on a yellow background
  • Kate Kyoungmin Lee
A first time 3D printer user creates a fidget clicker using Blender and Shapiro Design Lab tools.
A white cloth bag with a red vinyl printed logo on a bluish grey background
  • Della Huanyu Cong
A Tote-ally New Look for My First Heat Transfer Vinyl Makeover.
A pan flute prototype on a crowded laboratory work bench
  • Brooks Ransom
An engineering team works to prototype a recorder mouthpiece for an innovative pan flute instrument.
black 3d printed block M logo cookie cutter on manila background
  • Luis Lavieri
An enthusiastic culinary professional prototypes a cookie cutter at the Shapiro Design Lab.
Robots in the classroom, writing essays.
  • Yulia V Sevryugina
Chemistry students using GenAI for biochemistry essays quickly learned why citation verification matters. In 456 AI-generated references, nearly half contained fabricated elements, and only about three-quarters of the real citations were relevant to the essay topic. Students found verification frustrating and time-consuming, but it reinforced information literacy, research integrity, and critical evaluation.
Mint green colored test tube support box on a dark wood grain background
  • Samantha Wheeler
A doctoral student studying biology creates a nifty gadget to help with science experiments and testing.
Blue coffee filter attachment on a honey grain wooden table with partial view of a chair and venetian blinds in the background.
  • Jamila Picart
A medical student uses the design lab to improve the experience of drinking coffee by 3D printing a coffee filter negotiator.
gold and green iridescent square shaped button and trackball holder on a grey grained wood background.
  • Samantha Wheeler
A project team at U-M needed a trackball and button holder for a project - the Shapiro Design Lab team saved the day with their 3D printers and expertise in makerspace fabrications!
Grey 3D printed dungeons and dragons character on a brown background.
  • Nathan Joseph Jarema
Two projects (a mini-figurine and a pedestal) were printed by an enthusiastic SDL user who recommends the Shapiro Design Lab 3D printing experience to anyone with a creative modeling project in mind.
pamphlet cover featuring a hand drawn man in 18th century costume holding a sword in one hand and a banner with the word Independence in the other hand. Above his head is a banner that says "Appeal to Heaven." 
  • Julie Herrada
We are pleased to announce a new exhibition created to coincide with the American Semiquincentennial, on view from May 8 to September 20, 2026 in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room. On display is a selection of historical materials and artifacts from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection documenting the Peoples Bicentennial Commission (PBC).