Jaimee Newberry is the co-founder of Picture This Clothing. Draw a picture or take a picture and get it put on a dress or a T-shirt. It’s that simple — well, it’s that simple for the maker, which is what Jaimee is all about. She and her partner fell into the business through a tweet. Three years in,… Continue reading Picture Yourself on a Dress and Deliver with Jaimee Newberry (Episode 113)
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What’s Your Latest with CW&T: Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy (Episode 111)
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)
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)
What’s Your Latest? Studio Neat’s Mark One Pen (Episode 102)
Welcome to a mini episode of The New Disruptors, “What’s Your Latest,” in which I ask creators just about the most recent thing they made. Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, independent industrial designers and app developers for nearly a decade, and an early Kickstarter success. Their latest product is the Mark One, an all-metal… Continue reading What’s Your Latest? Studio Neat’s Mark One Pen (Episode 102)
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)
Nice and Neat with Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt (Episode 89)
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)
Wedding March to One’s Own Offbeat Drummer with Ariel Meadow Stallings (Episode 77)
Ariel Meadow Stallings is the proprietor of several “offbeat” sites about weddings, home and life, and families under the rubric Offbeat Empire. She started the wedding site in 2007 to promote a book on creative alternatives for brides, which built an audience hungry for much more of the same. She obliged and has been building… Continue reading Wedding March to One’s Own Offbeat Drummer with Ariel Meadow Stallings (Episode 77)
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)
Retooling Cool with Kevin Kelly (Episode 62)
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools re-imagines the Whole Earth Catalog, of which he was an editor and publisher, for the Internet era: crowdsourced, crowdmade, crowdmanaged. He’s been on the Internet for as long as there’s been an Internet for all us to get on. He was part of the founding team of Wired magazine, and the… Continue reading Retooling Cool with Kevin Kelly (Episode 62)