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Conch-shell flower pots, Radio Flyer wagons-turned-go-karts, bamboo bicycles. The internet’s made it easy to share individual projects. But the web’s also given designers a sense of community, says Shoshana Berger, Wired Development Editor and curator of Wired Design, the magazine’s newest addition to its website.
Ten years ago, creative types didn’t have outlets like Etsy or Kickstarter to share ideas, raise money for projects, or give audiences instructions for how-to’s. But the maker economy has been galvanized in recent years, Berger says: “Tools have become so widely available, cheap, easy to use. Anyone with an idea now can realize it.”
Listen to this week’s Storyboard to hear how online design communities have flourished, even while publishers shuttered shelter and craft magazines. From homemade terrariums to 3-D printed toothbrush holders, Berger explains how even the smallest home-improvement project found on Pinterest adds ballast to Wired Design’s claim: “We’re all designers now.”
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Storyboard Podcast: Episode 83
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