Dawn Hancock

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Instaprint - The location based photo booth for Instagram by BREAKFAST

Instaprint prints out Instagrams by watching out for any photos tagged with specific location or hashtags.
- Design
- Brooklyn, NY
Funding Unsuccessful (04/29/2012)
Funded!
Version Festival 12: Bridgeport The Community of the Future by Public Media Institute

This is what happens when you invite cultural workers, artists and dreamers to transform a neighborhood for one month.
- Art
- Chicago, IL
- 103% funded $15,597 pledged
- 186 backers
- Funded Apr 10, 2012
Funded!
Bike·a·Bee by Jana Kinsman

Bringing beehives to Chicago's greenspaces, urban farms, and community gardens - all while caring for them by bicycle!
- Food
- Chicago, IL
- 123% funded $8,646 pledged
- 235 backers
- Funded Feb 07, 2012
Funded!
BREAKER: Urban Agriculture Challenge by Juliette LaMontagne

A design challenge to turn urban gardening into enterprising agriculture.
- Food
- Manhattan, NY
- 116% funded $11,697 pledged
- 123 backers
- Funded Jan 05, 2012
Funded!
Etchpop - Create, Etch, Print, Share! by Marshall & Chester

Laser engraved woodblocks to make your very own woodblock prints.
- Mixed Media
- Portland, OR
- 214% funded $21,413 pledged
- 519 backers
- Funded Dec 01, 2011
Funded!
PASTE UP! Madison by Art & Sons

Paste Up! A 2-week art camp for highschoolers to learn about & create large scale wheatpaste installations in downtown Madison, WI.
- Public Art
- Madison, WI
- 101% funded $2,540 pledged
- 59 backers
- Funded Jul 31, 2011
Funded!
Exotic World & the Burlesque Revival by Jessica Halem

A documentary film about the fall of the Exotic World museum and the simultaneous rise of American neo-burlesque.
- Documentary
- Portland, OR
- 110% funded $27,581 pledged
- 495 backers
- Funded Jul 12, 2011
Funded!
Urbio Vertical Garden by Urbio

Urbio, the magically magnetic urban vertical garden.
- Product Design
- San Francisco, CA
- 516% funded $77,434 pledged
- 818 backers
- Funded May 10, 2011
Funded!
Designing Obama by Scott Thomas

The Design Director of the Obama campaign has collaborated with artists and designers to create a book of art & design from the historic campaign.
- Art
- Chicago, IL
- 130% funded $84,613 pledged
- 1,312 backers
- Funded Nov 05, 2009

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Instaprint - The location based photo booth for Instagram by BREAKFAST

Version Festival 12: Bridgeport The Community of the Future by Public Media Institute

Bike·a·Bee by Jana Kinsman

BREAKER: Urban Agriculture Challenge by Juliette LaMontagne

Etchpop - Create, Etch, Print, Share! by Marshall & Chester

PASTE UP! Madison by Art & Sons

Exotic World & the Burlesque Revival by Jessica Halem

Urbio Vertical Garden by Urbio

Designing Obama by Scott Thomas

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