Design
99designs launches fancy new Australian site, as DesignCrowd triples revenue
99designs, the world’s largest design marketplace, has gone and got itself a localised website. The announcement comes snapping at the heels of its whopping $35 million first-round capital investment from Accel Partners – the fellas what invested in Facebook, Dropbox and Etsy — and the launch of local rival DesignCrowd.
Adam Long, 2011 Anthill 30under30 Up-and-Comer
As one of the driving forces behind Engineers Without Borders Australia, a humanitarian assistance organization, Adam Long was well-versed in the art of helping others. Now he’s striving to create a new buzz with a crowdsourcing venture that will bring designs to reality and to market.
New Australian T-shirt biz’s grand designs (How to build a tiny global operation. Don’t plan.)
New Australian online t-shirt biz, HelloFresco, wants to trim the tricky business of having to choose your own new clobber. Instead of hitting the shops whenever your clothes fail the sniff test, they’ll send you two new tees each month, because “less choice is fresh choice”. HelloFresco founder and tee-signer (thunk that word-play up all by ourselves, we did.) Jono Chatterton says the website is the end result of five years of designing and printing t-shirts for friends.
Freelancer.com eyes 99design’s crowdsourcing crown… with help from Kanye West?
Outsourcing big kahuna Freelancer.com has finally signaled its intent to muscle in on 99design’s graphic design crowdsourcing turf, stumping up US$20,000 in cash-money for creative types. Has Australia become the new global crowdsourcing hub?
Can you buy insurance for your ideas?
A company will generally not think twice about protecting its physical and tangible assets through insurance premiums. For example, premiums may be between 1% and 5% of the total cover for business insurance as can be seen by clicking here. However, when it comes to protecting a company’s intangible assets the same care, budget allocation [...]
Is theatre the future of retail?
For beer consumers, I imagine this innovation might be an enormous boon (personally, I’m a quantity over quality type of guy). However, I suspect that the real commercial advantage drawn from the Beer Vault might not be its capacity to expand beer drinkers’ palates and prevent wastage.
Don’t build houses when you can grow them… out of meat!
In this typically thought provoking TED talk, architect and ecologist Mitchell Joachim shares some of his recent experiments ‘growing’ houses out of trees and… meat! Imagine using animal fat for insulation and “sphincter muscles for doors and windows”.
Hanging loose. The youth of today could soon make yesteryear’s heroes a reality.
Hibiki Kono is a 13-year-old, self-confessed, Spiderman fan who spent five months developing the technology to climb like his idol. Using two 1,400-watt vacuum cleaners (purchased from a local supermarket), the King’s College School, Cambridge, UK student, modified a suction device that enables him to crawl up walls.
The Ford Model T still going strong after 100 Years. The legend that is.
At 100 years young, the Model T is probably the most famous car in history. Here you get to see how it was made and the revolutionary technology that got it onto the streets.
The Loop (SMART 100)
My business partner, Matt, and I work at MTV, Matt in Digital and me in Marketing. The idea for The Loop was born out of my frustration in finding fresh creative talent – we were overly dependent on word of mouth and incredible people were slipping through the net. On the flip side, Matt, being the digital guy, was constantly being asked by other creatives for advice on the best way to build their own websites to showcase their work online and promote themselves to potential employers. We brought these two frustrations together and The Loop was born.
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