Mimaki tees up eye-catching 3D Print innovation
Mimaki has announced an exclusive collaboration with LIV Golf Tournament’s Cleeks Golf Club to produce a series of limited edition, artist-designed, full colour 3D miniature printed collectibles aligned with the Club’s unique Art of Golf series.
Art of Golf is Cleeks Golf Club’s long-term cultural platform, uniting golf with art, fashion, and culture through artist collaborations played in competition. For the 2026 season, Art of Golf runs across fourteen events, with one artist collaboration introduced at each stop. Each collaboration results in a custom golf bag designed by an artist and carried by the Cleeks team during professional play.Together, these collaborations form the Art of Golf 2026 Collection.
The stunning designs that make up the Art of Golf series feature creations from artists across multiple countries including Korea, Mexico, Singapore and the USA. In most cases, the artists are locally anchored to the regions that feature as part of the 2026 LIV Golf tournament, allowing each design to reflect not only the artist’s language, but also the cultural context surrounding the course. The sixth bag in the 2026 Art of Golf series (design replicated on the miniature pictured here) draws inspiration from Virginia, incorporating the Flowering Dogwood and Northern Cardinal into a design centred around renewal, protection, and identity.
Mimaki’s miniature golf bags are around 15cm tall and are 3D printed on Mimaki’s photorealistic full colour 3DUJ-553 3D printer in one piece, thereby eliminating the need for painting or assembly. Each 3D printed replica faithfully brings the designers’ bold visions to life by capturing the form, texture, and artwork of the original bag, turning them into desirable collectibles that are already capturing the attention of golf fans.
Each of the fourteen designs is produced in a limited quantity of just 25 3D prints, making a total of 350 models available for purchase throughout the 14 different events that make up the 2026 LIV Golf tournament. Complementing the series of miniatures, Mimaki was also commissioned by Cleeks Golf Club to produce a larger half-scale reproduction of the full-sized players’ bags for each design in the Art of Golf series. Measuring 50cm, the models are on display as an eye-catching clubhouse showpiece at each LIV event.
Matthew Stark, 3D Segment Manager at Mimaki, explains: “When it comes to high-quality collectibles, this project perfectly exemplifies the capability of our 3D printing proposition – namely short-run, highly precise, full colour output consistent from one piece to the next and delivered in a matter of hours.”
“The reality is that for projects like this, 3D printing is really the only viable option. Aside from the time and cost associated with conventional methods, the level of realism and fine detail we’re able to achieve would be impossible with techniques like traditional hand model-making, with traditional production often requiring trade-offs, including simplifying shapes, reducing colour, or adding manual finishing.”
Recognised as the world’s first photorealistic full-colour 3D printer, the 3DUJ-553 3D is capable of producing more than 10 million unique colours across a multitude of different application scenarios. In addition to high quality art, collectibles, and retail products, the benefits of Mimaki’s 3D printing proposition are also being leveraged for medical and anatomical modelling; product design & prototyping; and other creative and commercial fields.
