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.

moustache is a new french contemporary home furnishing company.

with two locations in williamsburg, brooklyn, 3rd ward provides resources for creative professionals. facilities include four photo studios, a wood & metal shop, a digital media lab, shared & private office space and an interdisciplinary art education program. access seems to be based on a monthly membership fee.

swiss furniture company wogg.

vitra’s online design magazine features an article on egon bräuning, a toolmaker and trained mechanical engineer, who for decades was in charge of the furniture companies product development section.