Listening to: The Secret Marriage - Sting

We’ve started to see something really exciting with Ponoko… regular traffic blips driven by products that capture people’s imaginations. Over the past 3 weeks the following products have gained a delightful level of traction:

• The iPhone document scanner by kyleakoch
• Type coasters by Alan Chao
• Stilletto laptop stand by our very own John Lewis
• One swallow doesn’t make a summer by Hammer

It’s super exciting to see the larger ‘machine’ working the way we predicted.

Listening to: Move On Up [Opaque Remix] - Mark De Clive-Lowe

From Noise Addicts:

QofD: Dave Matthews - “There is a lot of dumbing down going on. But I don’t think we need to panic, I think we just need to teach our children well.”

Listening to: Yes - Coldplay

Another sublime piece of work by nervous:

photos in the yard for the Ponoko competition
Originally uploaded by jrosenk.

Listening to: Lovers In Japan - Coldplay

Dan forwarded me this:

Listening to: Why Can’t I Be You? - The Cure

Another piece of design awesomeness by a Ponoko user - NotAClock by Kevin Byrd.

Listening to: Black Friday - Concord Dawn

Gizmodo has a bunch of WKII photos. I saw the WIRED gallery yesterday… my first thought was that it wasn’t the prettiest airplane that Burt Rutan has created :-(. It’s horribly superficial, I know, and it makes me a bad fan boi - but the aesthetics of Burt’s design work has always been one of the big reasons that I love his work. I’m sure it flies like a dream.

Listening to: Free Chilly (feat. Sarah Green & GemStones) [Interlude] - Lupe Fiasco

Check out this recent piece of art produced using Ponoko:

engraving detail
Originally uploaded by nathan_leland.

Listening to: Violence & Bloodshed - Shihad

Awesome!

I have just finished uploading version 0.2 of my SketchUp plug-in to “Google Code” under GNU GPL v3. The plug-in and source code is available via the download area, and also via SVN.

This plug-in should allow users to export selected faces from SketchUp as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This is of particular use for aiding in the design of laser cut products (especially using Inkscape and Ponoko).

Listening to: LoveStoned / I Think She Knows Interlude - Justin Timberlake

Ponoko is participating in the Piemonte Share Festival.

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Originally uploaded by sharefestival.

Great to see Ponoko users footing it with some of the most exciting design in the world.

UPDATE: Bruce Sterling’s photos.

Listening to: Nites Like These - Mark De Clive-Lowe

There are some amazing designs being submitted… well worth checking out.

I won’t post any here because that would be deemed as favoritism.