Last Sunday we celebrated Mother’s Day. For most of us, that conjures up memories of great moments that warrant balloons, flowers and cards. It’s unlikely that Mother’s Day made you think of all the mothers struggling to put food on the table and provide their children with the …Check out what a few of my former students, Jennings Hanna and Alex Todaro, are up to!
Final hours for Shelly Ni’s League of Ladies: Women’s Superhero Underwear Kickstarter project!
Congrats to John Taikhyung Kim on comfortably exceeding his Kickstarter goal w/his Engraved project
12 hours to go for Steve and Tyler’s ShotBot Kickstarter project! If you like to have fun when you drink, this Bot’s for you.
Hey, designers! Only a few hours left to get in on Sticky Jots!, Pam and Rae’s $1000 Project
People are nicer than you think.
This is a lesson I learned this semester through cold e-mailing and tweeting. Cold calling, e-mailing and tweeting could be scary, but I found out that people are willing to help out and share their story.
I sent my first cold e-mail to Lower East Side Ecology…
A new approach to a traditional idea:
Have you ever waited in a long line to sign a guest book at a wedding? When its finally your turn to sign the book, do you find yourself trying to come up with something creative and meaningful, but also different from what you already wrote in…
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Source: weweddings
Shibori Skillshare Recap:
As an assignment for Entrepreneurial Design we were tasked with teaching a Skillshare class to at least 20 offline paid participants. I’ve been having a case of spring fever that I’ve mostly had to ignore due to finals quickly approaching, so I figured a great way to cure it and still get get some work done would be to host a class I could teach outdoors. I chose to teach a class on shibori, a series of fabric dyeing techniques I’ve been practicing.
It was fun being able to teach a class where the results could be seen so quickly. As people unraveled their creations they seemed genuinely surprised at how well everything came out.
Email has made it a lot easier to reach out to people you don’t know. It’s a great way to set up a conversation or meeting. A few years ago I had given myself the task to cold call 10 prospective clients a week for my company Li’l Robin. It was very hard. I still remember leaving stumbled…
Entrepreneur Designers is a class blog for the Spring 2013 SVA IXD Entrepreneurial Design course taught by Gary Chou.
The course was co-created in 2012 by Christina Cacioppo and Gary Chou.
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