The real intention behind Where Design Begins: showing how the work actually got made. We gathered the designers' raw workbenches to share a deep dive into their workflows.
Walk through how designers went from a rough concept to final design with Vizcom.
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Last chance to submit your cork design ⏳📥
The Cork Design Challenge closes on Monday, June 8 @ 11:59 PM EST.
Submit for a chance to win:
✅ Your design, produced, and shipped to you
✅ A featured spotlight
3 days left until submissions for our Cork Challenge close. Top 3 designs will be manufactured by Corkway and spotlighted globally.
⏰️ Submit your Cork creations by Monday, June 8 @ 11:59 PM EST.
🏆️ Top 3 designs will be manufactured and spotlighted globally.
🧵 Submission link in thread.
One of my favorite new uses of AI: turning sketches into actual 3D printed shoes...
"Not just producing stuff on a screen, but stuff you can actually hold." -Vizcom founder @Aquahugs
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Make it real.
Though I'm not a trained designer, @vizcom gave me superpowers last night. "Where Design Begins" was the most curated gallery I've been to where I could actually play with everything. At most galleries I get in trouble for touching, or even getting too close.
It lives at the intersection of AI, design, makers, 3D printing, software, and hardware. I sketched. I talked with the people who actually make the work. I picked things up, held them, tried them on, wore them.
The community they've built is dense with designers, users, and customers who traveled to share their learnings, their tech stack, and their vision.
My favorite conversation was with Tim Downing, a customer. He's a footwear design engineer at Zellerfeld Shoe Company Inc., previously at New Balance and Stratasys, and one of the most creative, entrepreneurial, high-agency people I've met. His feedback on going from a 2D sketch to a real 3D model was spot on. Getting from an idea to a manufacturable 3D model takes a very specific, rare kind of talent. Very few people in the world can actually do it. If we can crack that last gap and make the path from sketch to 3D to real feel obvious, we hand that superpower to everyone, and anyone with an idea.
If you want to get your hands dirty and make things, go see it today through June 11. Link in the comments.
You set the bar high in SF @Aquahugs@kadokaelan@EmilyLonetto@kimberley_lu Maura K., Alex Hanhauser, Jared Teiger and the rest of Vizcom
In town for @sfdesignweek? Check out @vizcom’s first open exhibition starts tonight.
Stop by for drinks, designs and real exhibits built in Vizcom.
Can’t make it tonight? We’re open all week from 11am - 2pm.
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What will you design for the Vizcom x Corkway challenge?
👉 Submissions close Monday June 8, 11:59 PM ET.
👉 Full brief: vizcom.com/challenges/cor…
Vizcom is headed to Copenhagen during Design Week! 🇩🇰
Hand over a sketch. Get a free coffee.
While you sip, our team will live render your drawing and print it for you to take home.
📆 June 12 from 11:00 - 17:00
📍 Darcy’s & Copenhagen Contemporary
🔗 Link in thread to register
All sketch levels and caffeine tolerances are welcome.
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