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Making Wooden Business Cards with Ponoko

Derek Powazek — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:29:01 +0000

Ponoko is a New Zealand-based print-on-demand service for 3D objects. I decided to give them a try by making some…

Derek Powazek — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:21:15 +0000

The other day Bob Garfield had a good kvetch about dumb comments on newspaper websites on his show, On The…

Derek Powazek — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:26:32 +0000

So maybe you’re a geek and you want to write a personal story for someplace like Fray. Writing, like life,…

Derek Powazek — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:32:43 +0000

A while back I scored a Gocco from a friend. A Gocco is a novel screen printing kit from Japan…

Derek Powazek — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:35:19 +0000

Or: How To Bust Your Creative Block Megan asked: Say someone’s in a rut. What advice would you offer for…

Derek Powazek — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:40:55 +0000

A few weeks ago I found myself in Beauty Bar in San Francisco. I was standing on the bar, the…

Derek Powazek — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:46:34 +0000

Zazzy asked: Iâ€™m studying web development. Do you have any tips for crossing that hump between moderately-talented-amateur to professional (or…

Derek Powazek — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:41:00 +0000

Heather and I think of our cellphones more as cameras with phone attachments than phones with camera functions. So when…

Derek Powazek — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:18:50 +0000

My book, Design for Community, has just gone out of print. It lives on as a download, but it’s just…

Derek Powazek — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:03:54 +0000

There’s no better way to learn a few things than to tell the internet that you know a few things.…