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Blue coffee filter attachment on a honey grain wooden table with partial view of a chair and venetian blinds in the background.
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  • Caylen Cole-Hazel
3D print - Coffee filter negotiator
A medical student uses the design lab to improve the experience of drinking coffee by 3D printing a coffee filter negotiator.
Lab Notes
gold and green iridescent square shaped button and trackball holder on a grey grained wood background.
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  • Caylen Cole-Hazel
Trackball and button holder - 3D print
A mysterious 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!
Lab Notes
Grey 3D printed dungeons and dragons character on a brown background.
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  • Caylen Cole-Hazel
Need a mini-figurine on a pedestal? 3D print it at the Shapiro Design Lab!
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.
Lab Notes
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." 
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  • Julie Herrada
New exhibit: The People's Bicentennial
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).
Beyond the Reading Room
Balloons in front of a glass wall and open door to the entrance of the Shapiro Design Lab PIE Space
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  • Erica Ervin
Spring / Summer Term Inter Position - Hiring Now
Spring / Summer term positions available now in the Shapiro Design Lab.
Lab Notes
The center console of a car with a 3D printed cup holder in the right cup holder. The interior of the car is gray, and the image shows the two cup holders, and behind them (towards the front of the car) is a closeable hole. The 3D printed cup holder is tall, and wider than the original cup holder to be able to hold big bottles. It is printed in a shimmery blue-purple color.
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  • Veeraj Sunil Jethalal
3D Printed Cup Holder
3D printed cup holder for a large bottle to fit in a car cup holder.
Lab Notes
A pair of 3D printed white hairpins with a gray 3D printed traditional crown. Each hairpin is a long stick, meant to look like a stem, with a flower and buds at the end, and they are laid down across the image next to each other, with the left flower sitting on the end of the right stem. The crown is a large rectangular shape, with the edges of the rectangle curving down to look semicircular from the front; the top of the crown is much longer than the bottom. All the 3d prints are laying on a black table.
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  • Xinrui Ji
3D Printed Traditional Crown and Hairpins
3d printed traditional ceremonial crown and hairpins for a photoshoot.
Lab Notes
A light-skinned Black woman in glasses, wearing a dress, cardigan, and glasses, stands in a garden behind a rosebush
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Ella Hall's Corn Bread (circa 1920s-1940s?)
Keeping with last month's theme of cornbread, this month’s recipe is also corn bread, but from the 20th century. Ella Hall was a Black landlord and cook who lived in Ann Arbor from the early 1920s until she passed away in 1962. Her manuscript cookbook resides in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and a facsimile edition will be released by the University of Michigan Press in June 2026.
Beyond the Reading Room
A pair of white hands holding two black 3d printed vertebrae in front of a full white spinal model on a wooden table. The two black vertebrae are held horizontally, interconnected like they would be on a real spine. The spinal model is also laying horizontally, with the top of the spine on the right hand side; the top of the pelvis is visible in the upper left corner of the image. Running up the pelvis and spine and coming out each vertebra is blue-green tubing.
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  • Sabina Belle Cumming
3D Printed Human Vertebrae
3D printed human vertebrae for a project team.
Lab Notes
Headshot of Alina Murata
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  • Alina Cara Murata
Exploring Anime: Reflections on Anime and My Time as a Library Student Engagement Fellow
From October 2025 to April 2026, I worked alongside my amazing project partner, Katherine (Kate) Jeong, on Exploring Anime: Collections Research and Outreach Programming under our wonderful supervisor, Karen Reiman-Sendi, as part of a Library Student Engagement Fellows project. Our goal was to understand the scope of the University of Michigan Library’s anime collection and raise awareness of it to students and visitors of the library through outreach and programming events. Furthermore, we wanted to showcase that, as the University is a research institution, anime is an expansive genre worth analyzing in a cultural, stylistic, and literary context.
Student Stories