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Documenting the Misfit Economy by Alexa Clay
Cataloguing innovation from the black, grey, and informal markets and packaging it as a multi-series film project.
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100% funded $17,503 pledged
- 162 backers
- Funded Apr 12, 2012
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Vernacular Typography by Molly Woodward
Vernacular Typography is a design and photography project that documents and maps disappearing examples of found lettering.
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138% funded $6,942 pledged
- 141 backers
- Funded Mar 02, 2012
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Realizing Empathy: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making by Slim
An ambitious book of stories, dialogues, projects, and reflections revolving around the question of what it means to make something.
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115% funded $34,780 pledged
- 364 backers
- Funded Mar 12, 2012
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Get Sorie Kondi to South By Southwest by Sorie Kondi
Sorie Kondi is a virtuosic folk musician from Sierra Leone, West Africa. He has been accepted to SXSW but needs help getting there!
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129% funded $3,562 pledged
- 90 backers
- Funded Feb 02, 2012
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"POINT of INTEREST" a Sci-Fi Comedy short film by Archimedes Media Lab,LLC.
A short film inspired by the works of Jim Henson, Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, and anything Genre Film!!!
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102% funded $8,239 pledged
- 110 backers
- Funded Jan 13, 2012
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STUDIO H -- documentary film by C. O'Malley, P. Creadon, N. Baer
“Studio H” is a film which documents a year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms.
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105% funded $38,336 pledged
- 344 backers
- Funded Dec 18, 2011
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Moving Windmills - Documentary Film by Ben Nabors & Tom Rielly
Moving Windmills is a feature-length documentary that tells the true story of William Kamkwamba, a young innovator from Malawi, Africa.
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278% funded $111,545 pledged
- 376 backers
- Funded Jan 08, 2012
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Global Village Construction Set by Marcin Jakubowski
Sharing the world's first low-cost, DIY, open-source Tractor, Compressed Earth Brick Press, Power Cube, and Soil Pulverizer.
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158% funded $63,573 pledged
- 1,384 backers
- Funded Nov 19, 2011
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Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire 2011 by Brian Jepson
Celebrate New England D.I.Y. with Rhode Island’s own Mini Maker Faire, held at Waterfire in the Creative Capital—Providence, RI.
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100% funded $2,510 pledged
- 51 backers
- Funded Sep 17, 2011
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Young World Inventors (dot) com by Diane Hendrix
"Insider" web stories of East African start-ups with business ideas for social change in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
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100% funded $8,050 pledged
- 103 backers
- Funded Aug 24, 2011
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Longshot Issue #2 by mat honan
Longshot Magazine is a raucous experiment in harnessing new tools to erase media’s old limits. We create a print magazine in 48 hours.
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226% funded $17,007 pledged
- 473 backers
- Funded Jul 24, 2011
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Exhibit B: Fields of Work, An Exhibition and Publication by Tyler Kohlhoff//Justin Gorman
We are launching an annual printed publication and exhibition which examines lines of work and the passion of the worker.
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106% funded $2,120 pledged
- 47 backers
- Funded May 14, 2011
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Outpost Journal by Outpost Journal
A biannual, non-profit print publication on art, design & community action from cities that have been traditionally underexposed.
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114% funded $11,450 pledged
- 126 backers
- Funded Jun 01, 2011
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Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music by Chris Force
Chromatic is a dynamic print collection of independent musicians and artists who explore color in unorthodox ways.
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117% funded $17,673 pledged
- 356 backers
- Funded Apr 09, 2011
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Running on the Periphery - a documentary film by Gabriela Baiter
Two passionate students travel 10,000 miles to discover the truths behind commercial running in Nairobi, Kenya.
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170% funded $1,705 pledged
- 33 backers
- Funded Jan 05, 2011
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Help New Socks Release Their New Album on Vinyl and Tour by The Wallpaper Singers
We're raising money for our band New Socks to release our new album "Picture Story Friends Goodbye" on 12" colored vinyl and to tour. Watch our video!
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118% funded $2,365 pledged
- 67 backers
- Funded Oct 31, 2010
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Bicycle Portraits / Part II - everyday South Africans and their bicycles. by Stan Engelbrecht / Nic Grobler
Bicycle Portraits will be a photographic book about contemporary South African bicycle commuter culture. Pledge now and own a copy of your own.
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121% funded $9,089 pledged
- 95 backers
- Funded Sep 16, 2010
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Keepers of the Earth-A Feature Documentary by The Brothers
Caught between the government and the rebels, a Mexican shaman fights to bring his message to the world stage.
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112% funded $22,553 pledged
- 316 backers
- Funded Sep 14, 2010
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Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire by Brian Jepson
Celebrate New England D.I.Y: Rhode Island’s own Mini Maker Faire, August 28, 2010!
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109% funded $1,642 pledged
- 31 backers
- Funded Sep 16, 2010
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Rip van Wafels - Pressed in the USA by Rip van Wafels
It's quite simple really. I make stroopwafels and people say they are amazing.
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107% funded $23,750 pledged
- 150 backers
- Funded Sep 15, 2010
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Steve Daniels
New York, NY
Steve Daniels, Editor-in-Chief of Makeshift, is the author of Making Do: Innovation in Kenya's Informal Economy and founder of the Better World by Design conference. He currently works for IBM Research in the field of ICT for development as a designer,... view more
