the 99 cent iPhone skin

The iPhone 3G / 3GS recession case by Case-Mate
Tough times call for tough cases and that’s where the recession case comes in! The recession case lets you keep cash in your pocket without sacrificing on unique design for your beloved iPhone!
Now with FREE “Sharpie Scriptpersonalization” on the recession case! Just leave “Albertus Medium” selected and you will get your very own personalized recession case!

You know I never thought I would see mass customization, sustainable design, recyclable design and the iPhone wrapped up in one neat bundle, but here it is….

Oh and check the Q & A.

Q) Is this case flammable?
A) If you light it on fire it is

Q) Does it come assembled?
A) no, see our animated gif for a step by step demo!

Q) What device does this case support?
A) iPhone 1G + 3G + 3GS

Q) How does this case stay together?
A) It has locking tabs at the bottom and top of the case, as well as an adhesive strip to keep the case held together

Q) Can I use this case to microwave my frozen pizzas?
A) I dont see why not, although we cant insure quality taste

Q) Will this case make me awesome?
A) I think that goes without saying

Q) Is there a warranty?
A) no, it is cardboard afterall

Q) Can I get a paper cut on my ear while using this case?
A) My first guess would be no, but anything is possible, we dont promote unsafe use of the recession case

Q) How long will the case be sold?
A) as long as it needs to be to get us out of this recession! or while supplies last

Q) Does it come with a screen protector?
A) no we are in a recession!

Q) How long will the product last?
A) forever as long as you don’t destroy it!

Q) Is this case made from recycled cardboard?
A) 100% of only the best for you!

Q) Will the product scratch my device?
A) no! its cardboard not brick!

Q) Is the CM logo impressed on the case?
A) this is known as the “peoples case”

Q) Will this product be sold at case-mate retail locations?
A) Nope! The recession case is sold exclusively here at case-mate.com!

Currently sold out but keep checking their site…

via Treehugger

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Follow up on the Renegade Craft Fair

Jennifer Putzier aka Isette recently received a Ponoko Makers Grant to present her Ponoko produced works at the Chicago Renegade Craft Fair. Following is her account of the event and what the grant helped her achieve. SALES….

Hello all! Jennifer at Isette here, bringing you a recap of Renegade Chicago. It was, in a word, busy! The weather was beautiful, and people were everywhere! What I had originally applied to the Maker Grant for was help to defray the costs of custom display pieces for the booth. The chandeliers were designed as eyecatchers – something representative of my work, and big and interesting enough to bring people into the booth

The response to these was fantastic – over the next month I will be working out some of the kinks and hope to have it in the shop. I also custom designed necklace stands / easels for the show. I made the design in both whiteboard and MDF (later painted white) and they were a huge hit amongst other jewelers that stopped by the booth.

I think the best part, though, was getting to talk to the people that stopped by. I was surprised at the number of people that knew about Ponoko! I got to pull out the samples to show people the variety of materials…I could see people thinking about the amazing things they could make with them. So hello to all the lovely people I met, and try Ponoko – it’s fun!

Congrats to Jennifer on her success with sales and making some new Ponoko friends.

Anyone else with the entrepreneurial spirit can apply for a Ponoko Makers Grant to help them along the way.

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linking makers and fabricators

The latest fabulous fabrication initiative by ShopBot and Ponoko is 100kGarages.com

Inspired by Tom Brokaw’s question to the presidential candidates, 100Kgarages is a community of workshops all over the world that are run by “Fabbers”, with digital fabrication tools for precisely cutting, machining, drilling, or sculpting the components of your project. We’re here to help hook you up with these Fabbers. 100kGarages is also a place to learn how the process works and to help you create and refine your own creative designs and make them “Fabber ready”

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Johan Hybschmann turns a sketchbook into a 3D scene from Alexander Sokurov’s film ‘Russian Ark‘

The complexity of the project is quite astounding with so many finely cut layers it would be such delicate work but the result is superb. Anyone using Ponoko could conceivably produce something along these lines out of paper or cardboard without to much cost due to the speed which both materials can be cut.

Here is Johan on the inspiration for the project.

The inspiration came directly from the single shot film sequence in Sokurov’s Russian Ark, where the camera is taken through the timeless spaces of the Winter Palace, jumping decades from one room to another. The distortion of time is, of course, interesting in terms of the timelessness of the spaces but I was interested in the way that the camera never looks back. Even though the viewer never sees the full dimensions of these spaces, we are still left with a sense of coherence and wholeness. But what if the back of the room was mindblowingly different? It’s as if we constantly use the previous space to create an understanding of what should be behind us.

The book is an attempt to spatially prolong that perceptual idea. Two different spaces from the film sequence have been cut into each half of the book, as constructed perspectives. When the pages spread, the silhouettes of the elements visually collide, and the space within the book changes in character as the user travels through it by flicking through the pages.

he diagram of architectural outlines that was laser-cut into the book's pages, recreating the illusory volume of a cinematic space

Johan Hybschmann, a recent graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture.

via BLDGBLOG

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Bike Share Copenhagen is challenging cyclists to create ‘an attractive and modern bike share system’

The competition is a design competition for a new bike share system for the City of Copenhagen. The competition entries should highlight both design and functionality. In short: What will the new bicycle and the system look like? How does it work? How will it be integrated in the city? How does the collective concept work — from booking and locating the bicycles to paying for them and delivering them back?
The competition will run from September 1, 2009 to November 18, 2009. The winner will be announced during the United Nation’s Climate Conference [COP 15], which will be held in Copenhagen in December 2009.

First prize is 250,000 DKK [or U$48,000]
Second prize is 150,000 DKK [ or U$29,000]
Third prize is 100,000 DKK [ or U$19,000]

not bad

Download the PDF to get all the competition details

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Representing Ponoko at the 7th Annual Renegade Craft Fair.

Ponoko user and craft renegade to be Jennifer Putzier, AKA Isette will be making her art festival debut this weekend at the 7th Annual Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago, September 12 + 13 2009.
Craft fairs and markets are a great way to sell your Ponoko products as well as network with other like minded makers to share tips, suppliers, processes or even form your own craft cartel. Ponoko also offer Maker Grants to help offset the cost of the stall and spread the Ponoko love.

Jennifer will be at booth number 13 so stop by to have a chat with another Ponoko user face to face and also check out the materials. Jennifer will have both the US and NZ Sample Packs with her at the show.

The 7th Annual Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago will be September 12 + 13 from 11am 7pm on Division St. between Damen Ave. and Paulina St. in Wicker Park!
Ride your bike, and take advantage of the free bike valet service located near the corner of Division + Winchester.

And of course if you can’t make it to Chicago on the weekend you can always order a couple of Isette’s peacock earrings or a mustache ring from her Ponoko showroom.

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Kyle A Koch’s iPhone Document Scanner made via Ponoko.

A few weeks back Kyle A Koch’s iPhone Document Scanner made the front page of digg, and thereby increasing his exposure as an emerging industrial designer to be watched. Previously mentioned on the Ponoko Blog Kyle has 4 options for the iPhone document scanner in his Ponoko showroom ranging from downloading the file for free, to an MDF version for $45.

Apart from the great design it also shows the power of using social networking/bookmarking/sharing sites such as digg, facebook, myspace, twitter and especially Ponoko to share your design ideas and even garner a social capital, peer acknowledgement and maybe a few sales..

Congratulations Kyle, thanks digg.

Kyle A Koch is an industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati’s school of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP). He is currently working on point of purchase displays as a structural designer.

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Submit your own designs, or modify someone else’s…

This may be a first of it’s kind, a truly open design competition?
(Un)limited Design Contest invites anybody — designers, makers, amateurs to submit their own designs or because it is an Open Design Competition, you can submit a new product design, an adaptation of an existing product, or an alteration of another entry. The best designs will be exhibited at the International Dutch Design Week . If you win, your design will be made available at 0900-Design’s shop and website, and you’ll get professional help with marketing your product. The contest ends on the 12th of October.

Unique about the (Un)limited Design Contest is that all designs are open for anybody to be used, re-interpreted and redesigned. These derivative designs are also entitled to take part in the contest — even more: copying and improving designs is strongly encouraged. It’s all about sharing creativity and expertise. All in the spirit of open design ,each entry’s instructions and blueprints will be made available on the contest website under a creative commons license, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.
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Fully functional house constructed from Lego Bricks

James May, one of the presenters of the UK series Top Gear has combined his passion for Lego and his leverage of mass media to get over 1,200 people to build the two-story home of his dreams in Dorking, UK, entirely out of Lego. Part of a new BBC series James May’s Toy Stories, the house will be built from more than 3 million Lego pieces with Lego furniture and even a flushing Lego lavatory. Upon completion the UK TV star has vowed to live in when it is finished.

‘I’m planning to stay there for two or three days, or until it falls down – whichever is sooner. I’m pretty relaxed about it, but will just have to be careful moving around.
‘If I wake up buried under a pile of bricks, I’ll know it’s gone wrong.’

I can just imagine programming this into Lego Factory and watching (virtual) smoke billow out of the software as it crashes trying to calculate the bricks to be used.

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3,667,238 fans can’t be wrong

Coca-Cola recently relaunched their Facebook Page (one of the largest pages on the social network, with 3,667,238 million fans), and included a policy that content shared by fans be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. The specific CC license badge appears in the sidebar on the Coke wall, but is also referenced in the Coca-Cola Facebook Terms of Service.

….Furthermore, each user retains ownership of all User Content posted by such user to the Coca-Cola Facebook Page, subject to the following grant of rights:

The user grants an irrevocable, perpetual, global and royalty-free license to The Coca-Cola Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates and bottlers, their respective successors, assigns and those acting under their permission (collectively, the “Coca-Cola System”), to use, broadcast, publish, modify and create derivative works of such User Content for advertising, promotion, publicity, trade, merchandising, packaging, public relations and media purposes and for any other lawful purposes whatsoever, in all media now known or hereafter developed, with or without attribution to the user.
The user grants to any person or entity other than the Coca-Cola System such rights as to such User Content as are set forth in the Creative Commons public license titled “Attribution Non-Commercial – Share Alike 3.0″, the terms of which are available at here.

It is great to see a major player recognize the importance of playing well with others..

Oh yeah, you can also become a fan of Ponoko on facebook, if ya wanna.

via Creative Commons, of course….

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