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9 posts tagged kickstarter
Infographic: Kickstarter Dominates Indie Innovation
Like YouTube, Facebook, or blogging platforms, it’s almost hard to believe there was an Internet without Kickstarter, which may be the greatest testament to its success. In 2009, the site generated about $23 million for its projects—an impressive figure by all accounts—but in 2012, Kickstarter pulled in roughly 10 times that, leapfrogging the grant budget of the National Endowment for the Arts. You can find all those facts and many more in this masterful infographic created for Fast Company by Catalogtree:

See the full story and infographic here.
And check out Fast Company’s feature story on Kickstarter here.
Interested in how touch-screen mobile devices are changing affecting design? Check out our story: Kickstarter’s New Mobile App Feels Like Instagram For A Reason
A DIY kit for custom shirts. No sewing required.
Here’s how to transform your iPhone into a cute personal robot.
Foldable.me is a Kickstarter-backed project by Mint Digital and Chris Beaumont. It’s a papercraft avatar service that, for $12, allows you to ship a cubified cardboard version of yourself anywhere in the world.
An inspired Kickstarter project tackles the problem how of to bring the elegance of a laptop to the iPad
Awesome: A paintbrush for hardcore iPad artists

Yet another useful Kickstarter project: Gokey, a clever, key-stashing wristband. Pre-order one by pledging $15
A former NASA engineer Kickstarts “LowLine,” an underground park in an abandoned subway stop on Delancey Street in New York’s Lower East Side