Are you keen to get started making, but can’t quite bring yourself to kick it?
Well here’s a big incentive for you!
Get 30% off the making cost when you enter the following coupon code: PDXQA0
Just upload your design/s here to get an instant online price to make it for real using Designmake – and enter the coupon code on your way through the checkout.
This coupon dies after 11:59pm Saturday January 31, 2009 (EST), so be sure to use it by then!
(Note that this offer is only available for Designmake Free members (UPDATE: excluding metals) – you need some love and attention every now and then, just like the Designmake Prime members now don’t you).
Posted in Ponoko News by Ponoko Team | Comments are off for this post
If you’d like to list your products with design store retailers please email us: retail-at-ponoko-dot-com.
Within just 5 weeks of listing their products at Velocity (alongside some particularly famous designer brands) Relative Design have been making sales – and at more than $200 a pop, they’re doing great!
Also Chris at Northwards Design Studio has been picked up by a Japanese distributor and recently been listed at Ant.
And of course Allan’s coasters are available at Veer.
So if you want to spread your creativity around and get noticed in all of the right places, just email us: retail-at-ponoko-dot-com.
Posted in Ponoko News, Selling + Business Tips by Ponoko Team | Comments are off for this post
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Well, we’ve added some more materials for you to get creative with.
You can now make from FOUR new felts (3mm fuchsia, pink, white and fire) and THREE new acrylics (3mm cherry ice and dark grey tint, plus 4.5mm red tint).
Go crazy!
Posted in Materials, Materials Catalog by Ponoko Team | Comments are off for this post
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It’s been called a ‘manufactured holiday,’ but Valentine’s Day has legitimate roots. And honestly, what is worth celebrating more than love? This year, make it a digitally manufactured holiday and support an independent designer; below are my top ten picks for Valentine gifts from Ponoko’s showroom.
Alphabet Soup Necklace by taprobane aka Karen Hermon $20
This necklace spells p-e-r-f-e-c-t: sweet, simple, classic. And totally affordable.
TestTubed ‘TraditionSmishin’ Vase by Colin Francis $35
Flowers are lovely, but giving her a vase to put them in shows that you actually thought about it.
XOX Layer Ring by One-AM aka Juan A. Meridian $75–$110
The unique profile of each layer reveal the letters X and O (hugs and kisses) along the entire circumference of the ring when the pieces are accurately aligned. Who knew steel could be so sweet?
My Heart Is Free by hyperart aka Karen H $8
Valentine’s Day is not exclusively for girlfriends. This is a supercute charm for a cat! (I happen to know for a fact that cat accessories are very popular.)
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Posted in Design, Functional Art + Objects, Jewellery, Kristen Turner, Laser Cutting, Product of the Week by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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December 2008 was the best month yet for everyone – we made more things and you made more money than ever before.
In fact shopping sales were up 149% on November results!
The lesson? Keep telling people about your Ponoko shops. They are a great way to collect money with 0% commissions and educate your customers about other products you have too.
Posted in Ponoko News by Ponoko Team | Comments are off for this post
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Part of the film involves an interview with Jonathan Ive inside Apple’s design facilities in California. This is a rare opportunity to see the environment in which products like the iPod, iPhone and MacBook Air were realized.
I can’t wait for the film to be available, premiering at South by South West March 13 and a few sneak previews before….
Check out the trailer here.
Posted in Duann Scott, Electronics + Robotics by Duann | Comments are off for this post
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In the Ponoko showroom, there are a number of free design plans which you can download, modify and produce using Ponoko’s services. The items available range from jewelry and wine racks, to jigsaw puzzles and lamps, like the Box Lamp with Flowers.
The people who share these designs go through all the prototyping highs and lows so that other users can test their feet in the water, and modify an existing design instead of starting from sketch. In this way they can learn as they see how the existing file/design is constructed, how it is assembled, and they get their own personalized product in the end.
A nice example of this is Derek Powazek’s (previously mentioned in the Ponoko blog by Kristen)Bird Lamp adaptation of the Box Lamp which he has posted on his Flickr site above (and the Box Lamp starting point below).
Hopefully users like Derek Powazek will now go on to continue to produce their own designs with the experience gained through the modification process and share their results online too.
Posted in Design, Downloadable, Duann Scott, Furniture + Lighting by Duann | Comments are off for this post
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Stefan Petur Solveigarson is an Icelandic designer who’s work mixes graphic visuals with clever form to execute utilitarian design solutions that create a pleasant vernacular in his native country. His portfolio includes original product designs alongside projects often overlooked by design such as street signage and paper stands.
Below is Solveigarson’s design for displaying postcards at an Apple store in Iceland.
This laser-cut silicone trivet depicts the boundaries of Iceland with its six greatest glaciers.
Water-cut Icelandic rock is stacked to create the signage for the Einar Jonsson Museum.
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Posted in Design, Functional Art + Objects, Furniture + Lighting, Kristen Turner, Laser Cutting by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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Students in an open-source design course at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia are keeping up quite a nice blog on the topic. The course is led by professor Marta Mala-Alemany and assistant Shane Salisbury, and students regularly post about their findings and design assignments. Most recently, Zero-Waste Design, the work of fellow Ponoko blogger Roy Shearer was featured.
The blog also recently featured the work behind the design of the Carbon lamp. Architecture student Josiah Barnes contacted the designer Cindy, aka ckharnett, about using the Carbon lamp in a project about open source design. To see how Josiah’s project went, check out his post on the blog.
I’ll definitely keep checking in on the blog from this course, but there are also great blogs going on for other classes like Digital Fabrication, Scripting in architecture, and Digital Tools. Best of luck to the young talents of Barcelona!
Posted in Architecture, Design, Digital Fabrication, Furniture + Lighting, Kristen Turner, Laser Cutting by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC Routing
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Scandinavian Details is a San Francisco store founded by Kristina Runske. Runske travels to her native home throughout the year to find the emerging designers and trends in Scandinavia and bring them to a State-side audience. The curated design goods include products for the home and office, entertaining and cooking, children and pets. If you aren’t a Bay area resident, you can visit the website; there’s a bit of a Marimekko sale going on.
And of course, there are lamps.
Norm 06 Lamp Shade MD by Simon Karkov $102
I like how it sort of looks like the top of a pineapple. And pineapple’s are so welcoming.
Bourgie Table Lamp by Feruccio Lavani $362
I like how this design goes beyond the flat surface and gives each plane some depth. It also has 3 adjustable heights.
Fibonacci Lamp Shade by bnd $80
Made of silicone rubber, this design is flexible in form and application.
Anemone Floor Lamp by Mari Relander & Anna Katriina Tilli $950
It’s that lace trend, but this lamp actually uses real lace fused with hand blown glass.
Visit Scandinavian Details for much more.
Posted in Design, Furniture + Lighting, Kristen Turner by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
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