Tinker it now!

Our former intern John Nussey, now researcher at Kitchen Budapest, went to this year’s Ars Electronica and wrote a fabulous report on his favorite projects there. Check it out!

It’s the London design festival and I thought I’d highlight a few things that are taking place at the moment.

++ Alex Zivanovic has been involved in building some of the actuators-based elements for both Material Beliefs and the current window display at Selfridges, designed by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez.

++ Chris O’Shea contributed to 2 lovely projects lately: Audience for Ignite 08 and Traces with Moritz Waldemeyer for Scirocco Studios.

++ The i-design 08 conference will be taking part this Wednesday at the South Bank Centre where yours truly will take part in a panel on 3D-5D.

++ I went to see the very impressive graduates from Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at the Middlesex University and would recommend checking out the work of Sebastien Heinz, Mimi Son and Tracy Tsang.

++ C.STEM 2008 – BREEDING OBJECTS event will take place in Turin starting tomorrow. Part conference, part exhibition it will presents works designed and produced through creative and innovative processes: global news feeds woven into sweatshirts, chairs 3D printed out of frames from a computer-animated form, experimental custom ceramics and jewels shaped by online users, Google maps carved into wood, lamps shaped by the fight with a punchbag, 3D printing machines that print themselves.

Some of you might remember our workshop at the Dana Centre for this year’s Takeaway festival…well we’re very happy to announce that we are finally selling the RFID DIY kit on the Tinker it! store.

This is definitely for those of you who want to get their soldering skills going :)

It’s that time of the year again when we’re starting our workshop series with a special Back to School Arduino beginners workshop.

Tickets are £85 for students and £110 for professionals.

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