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.
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.
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.
designdroplets has a useful article on the basics of portfolio creation, from planning over creation to actual face to face presentation.
stacey is an alternative to indexhibit, an application used by many artists and designers for creating portfolio sites.
it is a php application, with no database setup or installation files. content is managed by creating folders and editing text files.
nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
– calvin coolidge
kickstarter is a funding platform for creatives. more focused on the crowd-funding part but still related to the crowd-sourcing ideas of quirky, moq7, and joy de vivre that i mentioned earlier.
a new website from the people at behance, the99percent.com provides articles, tips & interviews as well as video & events "to help push ideas forward".
the concept behind the site: "as creatives, we don’t need more ideas. what we need is better follow-through."
the idea behind the name: thomas edison’s famous quote that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
includes several interesting (but a bit too short) industrial design related articles.
businessweek has a slideshow on the 2009 winners of the ‘plagiarus award’.
action plagiarius "grants this negative award at the annual ambiente trade fair, given to manufacturers and distributors found guilty of making or selling ‘the most flagrant’ (design) imitations. … the aim of action plagiarius is to inform the public about the extent, damages and dangers incurred by fakes and plagiarisms."
some of the knock-offs are truly unbelievable, with not the smallest attempts to add or change any design details to hide their origin. and of course, several pieces that solely copy the outer appearance, while choosing cheaper or non-effective materials for the actual construction. and that’s without even mentioning the disregard for all the work and intellectual efforts that went into designing the original pieces.
