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Centerview: Melissa Borrell - Jewelry Designer

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2008-07-19 19:51:34 by Indigo in Ponoko - Blog
In the spirit of Ponokos latest design challenge , I interviewed jewelry designer Melissa Borrell . She explained her works evolution from sculptural to drawing-based, her recent fascination with shadows and how a move from the West Coast to the East Coast inspired the Fantasy Shade IC: I read on your bio that you attended the School of the...
 
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RCA Show: Toy Folder

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2008-07-19 18:44:34 by Roy in Ponoko - Blog
The big show As I mentioned in a previous post, I was recently down in London, the main reason being to visit the Royal College of Art Degree Show , which is always an amazing event One project that stood out greatly was Rodrigo Solórzanos Toy Folder , a project that on the surface looks like yet another of Roys digressions into papercraft...
 
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Desktop laser cutting from Epilog Zing

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2008-07-17 19:50:28 by Roy in Ponoko - Blog
Core77 recently posted on the Zing laser cutter , an $8000 home laser cutting/etching solution that appears to be as plug and play as a printer Unfortunately there is preciously little information on the Zing website to explain what the capabilities of the machine are in laymans terms. All I can muster is that it has 25 watts of CO2 laser...
 
Tags: appears, initial capital outlay, high-quality engrave photos, core77 recently, waste streams fabricators, durable all-metal laser-tube, co2 laser goodness, product appears, core77
 
 
 
 
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Nothing but data: from laser to pop video

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2008-07-17 19:04:49 by Roy in Ponoko - Blog
In the same way that the digital fabricator requires the designer to distill their creation down to nought but ones and noughts, so Radioheads latest video bypassed the visual spectrum entirely in its making. Instead, director James Frost and technical director Aaron Koblin used Lidar (short for Light Detection and Ranging) to capture scenes in...
 
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10-Day Design Challenge: Finalists announced and the voting starts

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2008-07-16 00:44:58 by John Lewis in Ponoko - Blog
Weve again had a great response to our 10-Day Design Challenge - Jewelry for summer , and again its made for a hard job choosing the final group of 20. Below you can see pictures of each open round finalist, and BELOW THE PICTURES is the voting panel . If youre a Designer of one of the winners below, feel free to invite all your friends and...
 
Tags: 10-day design challenge, design challenge, summer, summer flower, summer sunshine pendant, summer locket necklace, sunday august 3rd, individual showroom page, lorange blanc pendant
 
 
 
 
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Machinate: Sustainable Graphic Design Widget

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2008-07-14 19:05:45 by Indigo in Ponoko - Blog
I recently left the Bullseye to start my own fabric and stationery line. Im sure starting my own business will have innumerable difficulties, but one that Im dealing with now, is how to be an ecologically sound company from the beginning. Part of that difficulty is knowing the impact of each choice, process and product I make While not a...
 
Tags: design, soy based ink, print menu lists, tool, impact, handy tool, environmental impact, industrial design, apples dashboard downloads
 
 
 
 
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Aurora mixer looks and sounds lush

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2008-07-11 22:23:40 by Roy in Ponoko - Blog
The Aurora mixer is an open source usb powered multichannel mixer project. In other words its a box for manipulating two audio tracks simultaneously through a laptop, similarly to mixing using decks, except there are no big bags of vinyl Its another well documented open source project, this time from some MIT/Virginia Tech/Yale boffins: Matt...
 
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Changes to selling on Ponoko

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2008-07-10 23:53:25 by John Lewis in Ponoko - Blog
Based on your feedback, weve made some big changes to the way you sell on Ponoko. The first big change is that weve removed success fees altogether on the items you sell on Ponoko. This means not only is it free to list items for sale in the Ponoko Showroom , but transactions are now free as well The next big change directly related to this is...
 
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A fleeting few minutes at Unto This Last

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2008-07-09 02:05:35 by Roy in Ponoko - Blog
I was down visiting the village of London this last weekend, and managed to grab a fleeting trip to Unto This Last , the pioneering on-demand furniture mongers whom we have reported on before Unto This Last have a beautifully cosy corner premises on Brick Lane, the hub of all things bagel-shaped and trendy in Londons east end - although if youre...
 
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Stitched storage cubes

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2008-07-08 02:50:42 by DavidK in Ponoko - Blog
David Knott has been my favourite designer of the last few months. I first wrote about him and his pendant light here . The other product of his that I really like is his 2001 matrix storage cubes (I wish they had been called a space odyssey ). They have a laser cut polypropylene shell that is hand stitched over a cardboard frame. Cardboard...
 
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