Come join us at the DMY Maker Lab!
9-13 June 2010
DMY Festival
Tempelhof Airport, Berlin

The DMY Maker Lab will be a celebration of Open Design through practice, presentations, and collaborative action, created by instigators and participants alike.

The DMY Maker Lab is an emergent event, enabled by Jay Cousins, Gabriel Shalom, Michelle Thorne, Pedro Pineda, and Luis Berríos-Negrón. Initiated by numerous members of the Berlin Open Design community and sponsored by DMY, Etsy and Becks, and ultimately created in collaboration with you!

At the Maker Lab, we’ll be hosting various stations for participants to learn, play and build upon the design of others. With an array of processes, technologies and tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters, bio plastics, Arduino, analog motion graphics, weaving, knitting, and other do-it-yourself technologies, participants will learn and create together.

At the center of the event is a Mindscape, a discussion cluster featuring workshops, sessions, and conversations about open design. Most of all, we welcome you to stop by and share your thoughts, even plan a session spontaneously using our open space format. Topics could include new collaboration methods, the future of open design, business models, as well as sharing skills on specific design processes.

In addition we will be encouraging everyone who participates to engage in the documentation process, either by helping to build and transform an evolving monument, or by contributing digitally as an immediator; posting photos to our flickr group ( flickr.com/groups/dmymakerlab ) and/or sending tweets using the #dmymakerlab tag.

From this point of inspiration along with instructions, demonstrations and workshops, we invite you to engage with the space, tools, processes and people. To create together, participating in our numerous activities, or even instigating your own.

We would be thrilled if you would like stop by, lead a discussion, or share a skill, run a workshop, or begin a collaborative project at the Maker Lab. Please contact Pedro pedro_pb (at) live (dot) com or Michelle michelle (at) creativecommons (dot) org to schedule a time and topic or to attend one of the specific workshops.

Visit od10beta.info/dmy-maker-lab/ or dmy-berlin.com/en/festival/2010/maker-lab/ for more info on specific workshops, resources and events.

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music:
“Illusion” by Maersk

from the monome community remix project

photos:
flickr.com/groups/dmymakerlab

video:
Annika Bauer, Patrizia Kommerell, Gabriel Shalom
ks12.net

With this great example of analog motion the Langara College showed their “tips for better ideas” in an inventive and creative way. Instead of literally illustrating them, they found a mixture of different techniques for the visualization. In addition to papercrafted collages there is also a use of light and shadow, accordion folding, black light, and many other devices which work well in the context of the sketchbook format. An elaborate, funny, and often surprising piece.

The new Google Chrome ads are a real treat in how they use analog techniques to depict a wholly digital technology. Graceful camera movements and a live harp player give the spots an added freshness. The future is looking bright for analog motion when even Google is spending campaign dollars knitting and spilling ink into water

Taking an info-graphics perspective on analog motion this month, we look at this amusing lo-fi video about placing a marker on a Google map cleverly simulates the look and feel of a screencast with cutout paper print-outs. Charming details include a convincing blinking cursor and an actual shadow cast onto the surface of the Google map by the lamp used to light the shot. All the neat tricks are revealed at the end of the video!