Making Ideas Happen will help creatives bring into realitiy the hundreds of ideas in the pages of their sketchbooks through beautifully simple techniques and advice. My advice – borrow, beg, steal or buy a copy of Making Ideas Happen asap!
Its not often that design students are given the opportunity to participate in a design competition that actually delivers tangible, long term benefits to the winners. Each year, through their NewStar Award, AGIdeas has provided bigger and better opportunities for design students to get what are truly once in a lifetime experiences.
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I just received an interesting email from Derek Elley, one of Ponoko’s founders, about a new service they have launched - the ability for Ponoko users to custom make electronic products.
Since day one I have been impressed by Ponoko, it’s a fantastic service, however this new innovation really takes the cake. It opens up the possibilities massively to what you can prototype or produce as a designer via Ponoko.
As a designer it has always been painful to have to source services like laser cutting and then source electronics components from various places to put into your prototype, so a service like this just makes it that much easier, it’s all in the one place. Plus you have a great community of fellow makers and designers through Ponoko’s existing platforms. I mean what more could you want?…hmm maybe we should ask Derek and the team for a Ponoko rotational molding service?
Anyway I am pretty excited by Ponoko’s new custom make electonics service so check it out via this here handy link. A side note: I haven’t used the new service yet (but it sounds super exciting and I’m keen to test it). If you have used it already drop a comment below with your thoughts on it.
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Remember building a box cubby to keep the dragons out? How many ways can you make a giraffe? Remember everything a cardboard tube can be? The Play Team workshop (part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed 2010) will reignite your imagination, helping to spark creative solutions to everyday problems.
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Dear Loyal & New Readers,
As you may have noticed it has been pretty quiet on Design Droplets in the last month! This is a pretty unusual state of affairs on Design Droplets as it was always my aim never to end up with large periods of time without new content. However as you will know, life can take you in unexpected directions and get pretty hectic at times.
For me, the last month and a bit has been one of those times. Last year I took a job managing a large non design event here in Australia, which in turn happened at the end of July this year (about the time this lack of content started), the pressure in the last months of running the event, combined with personal affairs such as moving house came to a head and thus meant that I have not had time to devote to Design Droplets in the amounts that I would prefer. Our fantastic contributors have also all been going through life transitions and changes that have meant that they have also been pretty quiet these last months.
However I am making it my number one aim to change this current state of Design Droplets in the remaining half of this year and therefor there are actually some exciting changes and great content in the pipeline.
Firstly Design Droplets will soon have a brand new look and layout! This combined with an updated content management system (a highly customised version of the newest wordpress) will allow for content that is easier to read and to navigate (well thats the aim), as well as some great new site features. In partnership with the fantastic team at the Melbourne & New York based Portable, we are currently finalising the design, getting a new (beefier) server and migrating content to the new system – it is currently in the process and we are endeavouring to get it all online asap.
In terms of content, something that I am very excited to be able to tell you about is that since finishing up the afore mentioned event, I have been out and about meeting designers from Australia and conducting video interviews. These interviews will start to be posted as soon as we have the new site online.
I hope that you our loyal readers will be understanding about this state of affairs and that you will be patient as everyone involved with Design Droplets works hard to move towards a better and more content rich site for the future.
Look forward,
Raph Goldsworthy
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