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Kickstarter Spotlight: Foldio

Courtney — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:00:45 +0000

As someone who takes mobile photos quite a bit, I understand that lighting is a constant challenge. Enter Foldio, a compact, portable, foldable photo studio built specifically for your smartphone. Genius! The team behind the product, Orange Monkie, has already funded their project by 1151%! But you still have just about two weeks to become […]

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Interview with Product Designer Jessica Harllee

Melanie — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:00:25 +0000

Badass Lady Creatives celebrates talented women working in the creative industries. This week, I chat with product designer Jessica Harllee about her work at Kickstarter, hackathons, and embroidered poo. MR: So, you’re currently designing for Kickstarter in New York, by way of Virginia. Can you tell me more about how you got to where you […]

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Kickstarter: Slate Mobile AirDesk

Courtney — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:00:06 +0000

If you’re a laptop user, this new Kickstarter project is for you. Slate is a lightweight, heat-absorbent laptop surface that provides both mobility and the comforts of a desk. As someone who uses a laptop on my actual lap pretty much constantly, the improvements this set-up makes to the typical (and my current) one are […]

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Kickstarter: MIJLO’s A Better Backpack

Courtney — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:00:26 +0000

MIJLO, a new company that provides simple solutions for small spaces recently launched their first product, A Better Backpack, via Kickstarter. The backpack features a minimal design made from durable materials meant to last a lifetime. Check out the video below for more info: This product looks awesome, and considering they’ve already more than doubled […]

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Kickstarter: Gettysburg Address Letterpress by Craig Welsh

Courtney — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:00:46 +0000

To commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Craig Welsh (of Go Welsh) developed a Kickstarter project to help spread Lincoln’s words in 2013. The project includes letterpress prints that feature the entire Address, as well as a series of moleskine notebooks that are letterpress printed with some of the key messages. With a little […]

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Kickstarter: Oakland Illustrated by The Weekend Press

Courtney — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:00:31 +0000

Every so often a Kickstarter project comes through my inbox that I get really excited about, and Oakland Illustrated is definitely one of them. Curated by Oakland, California-based letterpress printing and design studio The Weekend Press, the project includes ten illustrated tributes to the their home city. Each vibrant, three-color letterpress print features a different experience in […]

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Kickstarter: Beer Press Coasters

Courtney — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:30:24 +0000

Beer Press is a new Kickstarter project by Jordan Mummert. The project includes a set of six beer-themed letterpress coasters as well as a handcrafted bamboo stand that stores them individually. The idea was born out of the blending four of his passions: design, typography, letterpress, and, of course, beer, resulting in a sweet collection of unique designs. Backing […]

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Kickstarter: Mosto., Modular Storage For Your Shower and Closet

Courtney — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:00:54 +0000

Mosto is a line of minimal, modular, flat pack organizational accessories developed by a student design team from Ohio State University. Their first two products consist of a shower caddy and closet organizer that are designed be customized to your own unique storage needs. They’re currently seeking funding via Kickstarter, so be sure to head over […]

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Kickstarter: Ugmonk’s OpenFrame

Courtney — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:30:42 +0000

Ugmonk recently launched a new product, called OpenFrame, via Kickstarter. OpenFrame is “a simple, flexible solution to display art, posters, photos, and more.” It provides a framing system that accommodates multiple sizes and configurations of prints, a way to swap out artwork quickly and easily and features special oversized slots on the back for easy […]

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Kickstarter: The Great Lakes States Project

Courtney — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:30:58 +0000

Designer Meng Yang just launched a new Kickstarter project that I think you all will love. Inspired by a road trip with his girlfriend, Meng was decided to design a series of posters that highlight the nicknames of the Great Lakes states they visited. The series will include six posters, each screen printed in its […]

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Mirth & Co. on Kickstarter

Courtney — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:00:11 +0000

Mirth & Co. is a two-person, bookbinder and designer team out of Austin, Texas. Their “purpose is to provide products to help people engage with the finer things in life, like the ideas we conceive, the people we love, and the places we inhabit.” For their initial product line, they’ve developed a series of notebooks […]

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Pedale Design: Custom Playing Cards

Courtney — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:43:15 +0000

Over the past few months, Tyler Deeb of Pedale Design has been working on the design for a custom deck of playing cards. He’s set up the project on Kickstarter in order to cover the printing costs, and he has already far surpassed his initial goal, with 24 days to go. Check out the video and […]

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Slim: The Thinnest Wallet Ever

Allan — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:06:50 +0000

For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Allan Peters, who is a Senior Art Director at Target. For more from Allan, be sure to check out his blog and follow him on Twitter. Enjoy! My buddy Aaron Melander […]

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Barbara deWilde: A Very Graphic Poster Kickstarter Project

Courtney — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:00:31 +0000

I’m so excited to share this Kickstarter project with you this morning. Veteran designer Barbara DeWilde, perhaps best know for her book jacket designs, has now left the print world to pursue interactive projects as an MFA Candidate in Interaction Design at SVA. However, on a recent trip to judge a design competition she fell […]

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Safwat Saleem: Oh Expletive: Zombies, Unicorns and 8-bit Creatures!

Courtney — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:32 +0000

I’m not one for violence, so when Safwat Saleem emailed me about his latest project, a poster series based on “ass kicking and mayhem”, I almost wrote it off based on the subject matter alone. But I gave it a chance and, I have to say, the video (and quite possibly the unicorns) absolutely won […]

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Matt Stevens: MAX100, The Book Project

Courtney — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:00:02 +0000

About a year ago I posted about Matt Stevens’s self-initiated Air Max 1 a Day project. He’s gone a lot farther with it since then, culminating in a new Kickstarter project. His goal is to create a high-quality art book featuring an additional 40 illustrations. So if you’d like to see this project come to […]

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Project Neon

Courtney — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:00:43 +0000

I’m really excited about Project Neon, Kirsten Hively‘s attempt to document and map all of New York’s best neon signs. Each week she’ll visit a new location and post a photo that captures the glowing signage (more images can be seen in her Flickr set), plus an accompanying story. Also in the works is the […]

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