Posted by admin on 4:11 pm
Well that seemed to go well. We were at New Designers today saying hello to people. Hello! And giving out our calling card lovingly designed by the people at Love [thanks Kat, Jonathan]. You can see it below although the image doesn’t do it justice, taken as it was from my battered camera phone.
You can’t make out the text so I’ll repeat it here:
Knit, cast, scult, cut, sketch, carve, sew, buy, sell, go!
Folksy wants to shake up craft and design and have some fun doing it. We’re starting with folksy.com; where graduates can showcase and sell their work, exposing it to a wide audience of customers and brands. To make the site as good as possible we’d like to get some people using it and giving us their feedback. If you help us out we;ll invite you to be part of our full launch at London Design Week. Go to folksy.com for the full details
So, there you go. Just noticed that Wayne Hemingway is on the front page of New Designers. People have confused me for him [presumably not him for me?] in the past. Perhaps that’s why it went so well. I’m being mistaken for a C4 Big Breakfast presenter and shed designer. Must keep that up.
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Posted by admin on 3:33 pm
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Gestation periods are usually predictable. Hamsters take around 16 days. They’re quick. The MySociety chaps knock out stuff at a ferocious pace. They’re the hamsters. Elephants have the longest gestation period of any land mammal. We’re the elephant of the web world having said that we’d be launching around this time last year. But trying to take some positives from this, elephants are pretty cool. They have laudable characteristics… good matriarchal social structures and er, big feet. We’ve got excuses for not being hamsters of course. In this horribly long gestation we’ve done a bunch of other things, as well as working to develop Folksy.
And so here we are 12mths after our near birth. We’re having a go again. The baby is moving. It’s moving largely because CJ and Russell have been pushing and prodding [can I take this metaphor too far...?]. Thank you. The due date is the 5th July to tie in with the New Designers event in London where 2000 graduates will be standing and smiling, mainly. We’ll be working with some of them and kicking off what will be a *proper* beta launch which will run until London Design Week where we’ll be doing ’stuff’. A bunch of stuff actually. And this will be the more formal public launch.
We’ll be posting with far greater frequency. However, if you want to chat or find out more then email james at folksy dot co dot uk 
UPDATE: just confirmed, we’ll be running workshops in a big tent at Lovebox, July 19th 20th in Victoria Park. We’ll post up what we’ll be making and who’ll be helping us next week.
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