It’s official! I posted my first item on my etsy shop this weekend Continue Reading →
This week I received my first order back from Ponoko. If you are interested in making things and you haven’t heard of them, you should really check them out – it’s a company based in New Zealand that allows you to upload either a vector graphic file or a photo of something you’ve designed and have it laser-cut and etched into any one of a number of possible materials. Continue Reading →
I initially set up this blog on an installation of wordpress, but after talking with my friend who runs Nidaba Design and hearing her glowing recommendations I decided to explore the Joomla platform. I was initially going to leave the blog and joomla site separate, but decided that it would probably be easier to just have everything in one place, so I’m in the process of restructuring everything to make that work. Comments, RSS, and other standard blog goodies should be up soon – thanks for your patience.
I said I’d post next about how I came by the name Polymath Design Lab, and I tried to write the post at least three times without getting anything sufficiently coherent to come together. Then I sat down to write an About page for the site and ended up putting together a pretty good summation: Continue Reading →