October’s JellyLiverpool was held at Studio 2, Parr St Studios and by all accounts this great environment went down a storm with the creative bunch that are making JellyLiverpool their own.

If you missed it, you missed the opportunity to work in a fantastic city centre location among a group of smart and creative people whose areas of expertise range from web designers, smart phone ‘app’ developers to legal eagles, psychologists, marketing & educational researchers … plus of course the free wifi, free coffee and on this occasion a bacon buttie!

The next JellyLiverpool is on Thursday 2nd December 2010 & will be at the new Leaf Cafe on Bold Street…. we’re there from 9am so come and join us….you never know who you might meet.

If you are a Facebook user then you can sign up here. Alternatively you can sign up on the main Jelly Wiki but you will have to sign up to edit the page.

Check out our main Jelly Livepool page for more information.

Jelly People

The second Jelly Liverpool took place at the Bluecoat on Thursday 2nd September, where a range of freelancers and home workers dropped in (& out) throughout the day taking advantage of a fantastic city centre location, the Free Wifi and more importantly the Free coffee & biscuits !

Jelly Liverpool welcomed a few newcomers (Dave & Ben to name a few) with some usual suspects keeping up the numbers.  Take a look at Dave Thackerary’s Blog….sums it up nicely.

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A really beautiful video showing how young people are exploring fabrication.

‘They begin to internalise incredibly complex mathematical concepts…  I see incredible risk taking.  They are willing to mess around with the software.  I haven’t given them any instructions in the software,   I haven’t said here are the cuboids or here are the shapes or whatever. I just let them open it up and go for it and they ask each questions to try and figure it out.’

Paula White, Teacher Crozet Elementary.

For more information on the software shown see http://www.aspexsoftware.com/desktop_engineering.htm

Fascinating TED talk from David McCandless on the beauty of data visualisation and its increasing importance in a connected world. McCandless quotes Hans Rosling: “let the data set change your mind set”.

TEDGlobal 2010

While reading Scott Summit’s work on 3d printed prosthetics I stumbled across this video from the Singularity University.   In this 50 minute lecture Scott discuss the current state of 3d scanning and 3d printing.  Summit explores where we are heading and what we can achieve when we throw out the old rules of mass production and invent new tools that require new rules.

ATM Skimmer

The ability to create almost anything raises interesting legal and ethical questions.  One example of the dark side of fabbing was identified recently by 3d printing service company i.materialise.

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A number of people felt that the end of the month was crammed with events so we have decided to move to the beginning of the month.

The next Jelly Liverpool will be on Thursday 2^nd September 2010 at the Bluecoat.  We’ll be there from 9am so come and join us….you never know who you might meet.

If you are interested then please add your name to the wiki along with a little bit about what you do.  Alternatively you can confirm on Facebook.  Signing up is just so we have an idea of numbers for the tea and coffee.    If you forget to sign up then please feel free to pop along anyway.

Special thanks to the Bluecoat for sponsoring Jelly Liverpool.

Art & Design

Street Clocks

Fluid Form is one of an increasing number of personalised product companies.  Easy to use online tools allow the customer to design unique creations based on geographical data (maps, topography etc).   Read more: http://www.fluid-forms.com/

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Digital fabrication, or fabbing, is the name given to a range of techniques and technologies that can make physical things from your digital data.   Create your design in your favourite 2d or 3d package then send it to one of a range of machines that can cut, machine, drill, or sculpt your design into a physical object.

Fabbing has been around for decades but recently cheaper and more powerful equipment has made it far more accessible to creative makers.    The range of things that you can create with fabbing technology is increasing by the day.   Here are a few of our current favourites.

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Interesting post over at Creative Review re Data Visualisation. Features link to Newsnight’s recent piece on the subject (and in particular whether it helps articulate or distorts the message) with Kirsty Wark, David McCandless and Neville Brody.

See the infographic review of the designer’s respective performances here!

Example of data visualisation:

Source: David McCandless and Stefanie Posavec.