danish design company muuto, with a collection of scandinavian designs.
and yet another online rapid prototyping service: cloudFab does not produce the pieces themselves, but rather works by connecting buyers and sellers, allowing you to get multiple quotes in one place.
it is in a closed-beta version at this point, but you can sign up for an invite to be notified once it is opening up for the general public.
fabbersmarket.com is a b2b marketplace and network connecting designers, engineers and manufacturers. besides a quotes management tool to source products and services, it aims to use several social media tools to allow member to market themselves.
from materialise, the belgian company behind .mgx, comes a new rapid prototyping online service, called i.materialise. upload your model, choose a material, surface, and color, and get an immediate quote.
run by monica khemsurov and jill singer, former editors of i.d. magazine, sight unseen is a new website aiming to provide an intimate and behind-the-scenes look at design, art, fashion, food, photography and other creative disciplines.
a collaboration between shopbot and ponoko, 100k garages is a community of workshops with digital fabrication tools, aiming to connect these workshop ‘fabbers’ with ‘makers’ i.e. designers/creators. as a designer, you can either browse their map or database for a local workshop, or ‘post a job’ and have different fabbers bid on it.
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