Press

Congratulations to our dear friends (and clients!) Eunice and Daniel for their amazing wedding that we were honored to be a part of. A wedding that made the front cover of the Spring 2010 Martha Stewart Weddings issue!

We've been wanting to post pictures forever, but couldn't until the issue shipped. Expect to see a whole lot more soon here on the blog and under Events. We had a blast working with the very talented Eunice on the design of a flat-pack stage and various signs and props for the event, which we in turn fabricated with our trusty robot Frank.

Click here to see the article!

To continue our little run of press we've had lately, we were lucky enough to be included in an article on the MAKE: Blog about couples what work together.

We feel honored to be included with other such Maker Couples as Amy Parness and Ariel Churi of Sparkle Labs and Dave and Cheryl Hrynkiw of Solarbotics!

Check out the article here!

The new series on the MAKE blog: MAKER BUSINESS was just mentioned on Boing Boing, and we are the photo!

Make: Online series: Maker Business

So now you are reading about how you can read on Boing Boing about the MAKER BUSINESS article that Jeffrey wrote on the MAKE blog.

make sense?!?

We were asked by the nice editors over at MAKE: to write the first entry on their new MAKER Business series.
The series focuses on tips for MAKERS who want to go pro- and start up a business.
Jeffrey wrote a great 6 steps to getting started article.

And you can read the whole article here!

Transmaterial 3 just came out!

If you are not familiar with this series, you should definitely pick one up. A great resource and inspirational guide to all kinds of innovative materials, techniques and applications.

Need another reason to pick it up?
We're in this one! Showcasing our Interactive LED tables

The Three Rings office space in downtown San Francisco is a Jules Verne inspired space complete with portholes to the sea, a secret door and a lounge area made of giant attacking cephalopod arms.
We created this space in 2006, and not only does it still look great, it is still getting press.
Recently picked up by SuperEco, I think this is the first time this space has been called out for it's eco-friendly fabrication!

All the walls and the interior decorative elements at Three Rings were painted with an Ultra-Low VOC paint.
The wood finished were all water based dyes and water borne sealers.
And no actual cephalopods were harmed in the creation of this office.

Pick up the February addition of Fast Company off the news stand to see Because We Can highlighted in the "Fast Talk" section of the magazine!

This month is about innovative LED lighting, and our Interactive LED tables were used for one of the full page spreads.
Complete with Jillian and Jeffrey in their Because We Can red jumpsuits!

The table used in the photo shoot is the Ripple. Shown also in the photo below.

Penny Arcade recently launched it's own video show, highlighting all things Penny Arcade. It's a wonderful look into a great company, and the highlight so far we think is the latest episode about Child's Play, the way-cool charity they run.

A fun thing about it is that the conference table we made for them last year makes a cameo in the opening credits and sometimes sneaks into other scenes as well. Awesome! We're proud to have been able to make such a thing, and happy that much gaming of all types (as well as business meetings) have happened over that table. The glow-in-the-dark centerpiece hasn't made it into the show yet however...

Being Oaklanders, we're proud to have been featured in Oakland Magazine 'In The Mix' column this month.

Thanks for everyone's support and thanks to Oakland magazine!

Back in April, we were invited to give a brief talk at the AIA conference in San Francisco. You can download the video here, and the slides are available as a PDF here. No embed, sorry, don't know why the AIA site decided to go with a download for the video.

The talk is a five-minute overview of the five-step process we use here at Because We Can to make stuff, and we're pretty happy with how it came out.

While the AIA puts on a different conference just for technology-focused topics called TAP, for Technology in Architectural Practice, they also had a 'mini-TAP' if you will during the main larger AIA conference.

The San Francisco Digital Design group, an informal breakfast club we're part of, did a group presentation as part of that 'mini-TAP'. It was a http://www.pecha-kucha.org format, i.e. 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide, with ten different people presenting. We were excited and honored to be one of the presenters, as our other nine co-presenters were all terribly smart and experienced experts. I highly recommend watching all the presentations!