CW&T is Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy. They combine art, technology, design, and manufacture into everyday objects that have nothing everyday about them, as well as unique expressions of industrial design that can’t be compared with anything else. In this episode, we talk about one of their latest endeavors, Time Since Launch, a single-use launch clock… Continue reading What’s Your Latest with CW&T: Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy (Episode 111)
Category: Makers
Painting with Lasers: Dan Shapiro, Shell Meggersee, and Nick Taylor (Episode 109)
This episode is recorded live at Glowforge, makers of a 2D laser cutter—but it’s not a sponsored episode and we don’t talk about the hardware much at all. Instead, it’s conversation about what people are trying to make and how to get started as a creator. I talk with Glowforge founder (and my friend) Dan Shapiro,… Continue reading Painting with Lasers: Dan Shapiro, Shell Meggersee, and Nick Taylor (Episode 109)
Living a Life in Letterpress: Live at Ada’s (Episode 108)
My love of letterpress printing is no secret, and in this episode, I speak to two designers who devote parts of their working lives to modern letterpress. This episode was taped live at Ada’s Technical Books and Café in Seattle on January 23. Printing didn’t change much from about 1450 to 1950. It became faster,… Continue reading Living a Life in Letterpress: Live at Ada’s (Episode 108)
Hugs and Kisses Goodbye: Live from XOXO 2014 (Episode 93)
Jen Bekman, Zoë Salditch, and Mike Merrill were our guests live on stage at the XOXO 2014 festival in Portland, Oregon, as part of the Story evening that also featured Hrishikesh Hirway’s Song Exploder, featuring a song by The Thermals; John Roderick (The Long Winters) interviewing Chelsea Cain; and Harmontown with Dino Stamatopoulos. Jen Bekman… Continue reading Hugs and Kisses Goodbye: Live from XOXO 2014 (Episode 93)
Bakfiets to the Future with Phillip Ross (Episode 86)
Phillip Ross is one of the fellows behind Metrofiets, a company that makes cargo bikes — a kind of transportation vehicle developed in the Netherlands, and known as bakfietsen there. He and his partner James Nichols build their bikes in Portland, Oregon. Phil helped bring Critical Mass to Portland and is the co-creator and producer… Continue reading Bakfiets to the Future with Phillip Ross (Episode 86)
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)
Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall (Episode 56)
Amelia Greenhall. Double Union is a new community workshop in San Francisco designed for women, and intended to provide a comfortable, welcoming environment to make things. In this podcast, I visit the pre-renovation space with Amelia Greenhall, one of the people who helped create the non-profit organization. She explains why… Continue reading Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall (Episode 56)
Actually, Quite Likely! Recorded Live in Brooklyn (Episode 49)
We recorded a special live episode of The New Disruptors in Brooklyn’s fantastic DUMBO district in the Galapagos Art Space as part of the Nearly Impossible conference in which we talked about the joys, challenges, and surprises in prototyping, funding, producing, and distributing products. On stage, we had Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy of CW&T, Tom… Continue reading Actually, Quite Likely! Recorded Live in Brooklyn (Episode 49)
Episode 9: Iterative Imperative with Ellie and Mike Kemery
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 21 MB, 44 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Maker spaces are popping up all over where people can go and work with tools of all sorts, from woodworking to advanced 3D printers, to make things… Continue reading Episode 9: Iterative Imperative with Ellie and Mike Kemery
Episode 2: Come Fly with Me, Let’s Fly, Let’s Fly Away with Chris Anderson
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 26 MB, 53 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Chris Anderson was the editor in chief of Wired magazine for over adecade, during which time he wrote an “accidental” trilogy of threebooks: The Long Tail, Free,… Continue reading Episode 2: Come Fly with Me, Let’s Fly, Let’s Fly Away with Chris Anderson