Thursday, September 17, 2009
100kgarages: a new initiative to connect designers with local makers
Core77: "As designers, we are all familiar with how difficult it is to push small projects through the vast industrial manufacturing complex. You have the idea, the drawings and the money, but factories have no time or patience for your small run. Or it's difficult to find someone open to having a conversation about the methods available to produce your rather experimental piece."
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This is definitely the kind of innovation that utilizes the internet and new technology to promote individual design ideas and redefines how anyone views industry. I think that the idea of large industries not being able to think as creatively as freer as a company that operates on a small scale. This becomes more and more relevant with the consumer-conscience that has been developing over the last couple of year.
This idea is really fascinating to me. I think though, that ideally more designers would have the skills to make realizations of their designs on their own, but that is clearly not always possible. So this allows creativity and more ideas to be made real, since factories can't always allow for multiple iterations or variations of things to be created, which some makers would probably be willing to do, as long as paid appropriately.
first of all, i love that an article featured in core77 was on this blog because core77 typically has readers that are interested in industrial and communication design and its great to have designers in general knowledgeable about all the different kinds of innovation and design possible, secondly its really great that through this new system a lot more designers will be heard and their projects considered. a lot of the greatest product designs have been thoroughly shot down before they were recognized and its great that there is the options for designers and the companies that could potentially support and finance them to have a better way to communicate
This sounds terrific to me. I very much like the idea of localized, decentralized shops. On the personal level I really enjoy the idea of working with individuals and small groups rather than big scary organizations with 3 different departments between the idea and the shop floor. Additionally, I think the idea that innovation is in connecting and networking shops and designers - rather than building a giant centralized custom-fab shop is very intriguing. More and more often simple ideas are making the news and giant, complicated corporations are loosing ground. It's not that they don't have a place, but in general they come with all sorts of poor behavior that I'd love to see less of.
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