Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, a small design and software group that produces nifty products. They began with the Glif, and when I talked to them last over a year ago, they had launched their second software product and were deep in planning on a new, more complicated item: the Neat Ice… Continue reading Nice and Neat with Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt (Episode 89)
Category: Design
How to Feel Real App Appeal with Garrett Murray (Episode 87)
Garrett Murray is the founder and creative director of Karbon, an app-development firm. But software isn’t his whole life; he also happens to be an award-winning filmmaker. His firm developed the apps Scratch, a quick-input notepad for iPhone, and Ego, for tracking all your Web status in a single glance. Actor Tom Hanks just singled… Continue reading How to Feel Real App Appeal with Garrett Murray (Episode 87)
Into the Bellwoods with Lucy Bellwood (Episode 82)
Lucy Bellwood is a Portland cartoonist who started her working life with a crowdfunding campaign. She’s a member of Periscope Studio, a loosely affiliated working space and collective of which I’ve interviewed other members. True Believer was the outcome of her Kickstarter project, and she’s built a career from there. Sponsors and patrons This podcast… Continue reading Into the Bellwoods with Lucy Bellwood (Episode 82)
T Minus Zero with Gary Chou (Episode 79)
Gary Chou launched Orbital Boot Camp to accelerate people’s product ideas into reality in a 12-week intensive session. He knows from startups from his work at Union Square Ventures and The Product Sessions, but his particular interest is making sure that people with traditionally fewer opportunities are included. Sponsors & patrons This podcast is made… Continue reading T Minus Zero with Gary Chou (Episode 79)
Threes A Magic Number with Greg Wohlwend (Episode 74)
Greg Wohlwend developed the popular game Threes with his colleague Asher Vollmer. Greg is a games illustrator and designer who was part of teams that made Hundreds, Gasketball, Solipskier, and Ridiculous Fishing. Threes is his breakout game — and has inspired lots of admiration, frustration, and imitation. He and I talk in this episode about the… Continue reading Threes A Magic Number with Greg Wohlwend (Episode 74)
Puzzling Evidence with Chris Yates (Episode 70)
Chris Yates is a polymath. A sculptor, artist, woodworker, cartoonist, entrepreneur, dog-kennel assembler, musician, and more. He’s best known now for his handmade jigsaw puzzles. He’s on the show to talk about his zigzag path to making a niche for himself. Sponsors & Patrons This podcast is made possible through the support of sponsors and… Continue reading Puzzling Evidence with Chris Yates (Episode 70)
Crowded House with Joshua Lifton (Episode 66)
Joshua Lifton is one of the founders of Crowd Supply, a company that crowdfunds around products. They take a very different approach to preparation, funding, and follow-up than Kickstarter. Kickstarter just announced that it had crossed $1bn in pledges in its five-year lifetime. Of that, it’s disbursed nearly $850m. It’s on track to facilitate perhaps… Continue reading Crowded House with Joshua Lifton (Episode 66)
Gaze Deeply into My Crowdfunding Navel with Guest Glenn Fleishman (Episode 58)
Guest host Jason Snell talks to regular host Glenn Fleishman about Glenn’s recent Kickstarter campaign to fund a book of non-fiction articles from The Magazine. Jason, host of The Incomparable and an editorial director at a major magazine firm, quizzes Glenn about failure, success, fulfillment (product and otherwise), and the reason we solicit funds from… Continue reading Gaze Deeply into My Crowdfunding Navel with Guest Glenn Fleishman (Episode 58)
Wait a Cotton-Picking Minute with Jay Fanelli and Nathan Peretic (Episode 54)
Jay Fanelli and Nathan Peretic know how to go it on their own. They’ve done it not just once, not just twice, but now three times. They formed the interactive-services company Full Stop Interactive, out of which United Pixelworkers was formed, a company that produces fine wearable merchandise. And United Pixelworkers gave birth to Cotton… Continue reading Wait a Cotton-Picking Minute with Jay Fanelli and Nathan Peretic (Episode 54)
The Labors of Job with Alli Dryer and Jenni Leder (Episode 50)
Two UI/UX designers in fur hats, Jenni Leder (left) and Alli Dryer. This podcast often emphasizes going it alone. But what if you could achieve your own dreams of continuous learning and creative expression while also having full-time jobs and getting that mythical thing, a regular paycheck? I talk with Alli Dryer… Continue reading The Labors of Job with Alli Dryer and Jenni Leder (Episode 50)