Our Spring 2008 Kitchen season ended with a lovely easygoing conversation about extruding pixels from the surface of a sphere.
Akira made fried rice.
Afterwards, we packed up Dream Kitchen for the summer. No more Friday afternoon co-working at Design Kompany’s office…
After all, the sun is out. (Isn’t it?) That means light to make vitamin D!!!
But before our casual co-working series boxes up for the season—
A special thank-you to all of you who stopped at Kornerhaus, our Capitol Hill office, over the last few months to join in on co-working, lunch, and general P2P convos.
Especially to our guest speakers this spring:
John Adair
John is a video artist and technology-geek, whose photo show recently focused on the “the most reductive imaging device ever made,” a 0.009 mega-pixel Gameboy Camera). In his various visual art
|| Read the announcement for John’s talk on video art
Melody Biringer
“There are two kinds of people. Those who do things, and those who talk about doing things,” Melody told us. She’s a dyed-in-the-wool risk-taker at Startup Junkie, and Crave Party (among a few other things).
Aimee Gallo
We made a short film about Aimee’s cooking demonstration on how to make a fast, healthy lunch.
Seth Grizzle and Jonathan Junker
“‘Sustainability’ is a term we try to stay away from,” said Jon, a partner at achitects-cum-furniture-design team graypants. He was telling us why he was inspired to make his design out of waste material, but wouldn’t call it “green” or “sustainable.”
|| Other Design Kompany posts on graypants
William Harding
William recently launched Bonanzle, a social network and marketplace web site that makes peer-to-peer selling and buying “5-10 times easier than on Craigslist.” A keen observer might note that we had something to do with its logo or something, but that was irrelevant here.
|| Read the announcement for Bonanzle and another online venture, CommonCraft
Lee LeFever
Lee’s helped people build some impressive on-line communities at his company Common Craft. Their current expertise is making videos that explain complicated stuff simply.
|| Read the announcement for CommonCraft and another online venture
Mark von Rosenstiel
Mark’s latest passion is designing a building based on the Cantor set, building a custom-made lamps, dog head sculptures, and a “Drunkard’s Walk” web experiment inspired by this talk that we attended together.
Bruce Rutledge
Just after Bruce’s company Chin Music Press published their first book Kuhaku, Design Kompany had the pleasure of helping (just a tiny bit) with the promotion of Kuhaku and its first online project Buzztracker in Seattle and in Portland.
Thanks to all of you for making Dream Kitchen spring 2008 great!
So, what was “Dream Kitchen,” anyway?
A bi-weekly work-together. Plus a short seminar/presentation/discussion over a long lunch. A chance for folks to:
- Network: Looking for a new gig? Someone to collaborate with on your secret project? Who knows who you might meet here that could lead somewhere.
- Brainstorm: Need feedback on your current project? Ideas for a new product?
- Create: We’ve got wifi, a big table, and a couple of other places where you can prop your laptop on and get busy. If you are a work-at-home guy/gal, this is a chance to dress up!)
- Socialize: Change is fun!
- Learn: We feature something new at each even—an informative speaker or discussion forum on an interesting topic.
All of this at our office, Kornerhaus, in Capitol Hill:
Korner still going
Kitchen may be over, but we’ll still be getting together on first Mondays at Stumbling Monk for Designers Korner.
Beer and summer just go together so nice.
And how could we break our monthly-since-mid-2007 streak?
|| Designers Korner
|| First Mondays
|| Stumbling Monk, Capitol Hill
|| 6:30pm
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