Ponoko is looking for someone to lead our laser cutting operations in Wellington, New Zealand.
This is a great opportunity for a recent graduate, designer, maker, artist or student to learn more about digital fabrication and work in a creative and challenging environment.
You’ll be leading our Wellington production room, which means responsibility for delighting our customers by delivering them a high quality and fast turnaround laser cutting service.
It was love — of wood — that lead designer Valerie Thai to laser cutting.
“I have always loved working with wood as a medium. In the past I did a lot of woodburning (pyrography) as a hobby and craft,” she says.
When Valerie started seeing laser cut wood designs on various blogs, she decided to research the method a little more. She then came across Ponoko in the Etsy forums. “It was really exciting to know that there was a way I could work directly with a user-friendly laser cutting company,” she tells me.
Most small creative companies start with a product — not a business plan. But Mariko Carandang of iluxo was all business right from the beginning.
“One day I decided that I wanted to start a company and start selling things on Etsy,” she says. “I wasn’t already making something that I wanted to sell. I asked myself ‘Now what should I make?”
As a web developer and designer in San Francisco, she had the software skills to jump into digital fabrication. Mariko did lots of product research ranging from materials to manufacturing methods to fashion trends. She finally decided to enter the competitive market of laser-cut jewelry, and the next big question was how to set her designs apart from the crowd.
“Laser-cutting is inherently flat, so I thought a good way to differentiate my first product was to make something 3D. That’s where the idea of creating a locket came from,” she says of her first design.
Anyone with a Ponoko free account can take 20% OFF a laser-cutting order at the Ponoko US or NZ hub with promo code OCIKYD.
That’s 20% off the making time for any laser-cut order you place between now and March 18th. It’s our Saint Valentine’s through Saint Patrick’s Day gift to you. <3
• Just log in to your Ponoko free account.
(Sign up right here if you don’t have one.)
• Place a laser-cutting order at Ponoko USA or Ponoko NZ.
• Use promo code OCIKYD, and—POT O’ GOLD—you’ll get an automatic 20% off laser makin’.
Offer ends March 18, 2013. Coupon code only valid one time per account and cannot be combined with other discounts or Ponoko Making Vouchers. Coupon code not valid on Ponoko Prime accounts. (Want an even bigger discount *every* time you order + better shipping options and more? Check out our Ponoko Prime rates!)
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When burlesque dancer Donna Touch first tried using those big, flirtatious feathered fans, she knew she couldn’t work with them.
“I wanted to move them around with a lot of speed, something different from what most dancers were doing. But the fans were so heavy, slow and cumbersome, and really difficult to hold,” she explains. So Donna decided to maker her own.
“I did a Google search for ‘custom laser cut’ and found (more…)
Also I just launched my new site called The Deep Channels – it has nothing to do with laser cutting, but you may like it. We have a Facebook page for that too.
Above, Lucy Williams makes these images using a number of materials as well as laser cutting and etching. This image is Summerhouse from her Glass Houses series from 2010. You can see more at McKee Gallery.
After the jump, a Space Invaders chess set, a chair, and Ron Swonson… (more…)
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