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This is a wish list. There are many projects I'd like to pursue,
but I'm a few fries short of a Happy Meal in the expertise to do it
right. If I can do this without actually appearing to beg, I'll
post them here and see if anyone takes an interest
I like to collaborate and have seen good pieces come from it.
I'm conscientious about giving credit, and for some pieces I pay
royalties on their sales.
If you do write, please be patient. My email queue is long, I'm
busy with current projects, and even very worthy messages sometimes
languish. If it won't wait, call my assistant at (831)421-0677,
and she'll see that I call you back.
Plastic Injection Molding
I've got some ideas for snap-fit or glue-up kits. I feel like
this would be an excellent way to market my designs, right at the
center of geek/art crossover. It can't be super expensive to
make these – there's an awful lot of them out there, many
catering to very narrow interests – but I'm not up to speed in
choosing materials, design for assembly, or how to source tooling and
molding services. I'd like to work with someone knowledgeable so
as to make the tooling one time and get a decent result.
I can fund the direct costs of this project, but I can't pay a typical
product development consulting fee. Thus it would have to be a
collaboration, with a reduced fee plus profit sharing or a royalty in
return for your injection-molding expertise.
Lamps
I have a couple of light designs which I think are good, but which MGX declined to
license. I expect I can find 3D printing for the shades, but I'm
not anxious to spend a lot of time sourcing fixture components, still
less seeking UL approval. Or should they be low-voltage or LED
so as to avoid the UL question? If you can help me go from CAD
model to working lamp, I'll cut you in on whatever I get. Or if
you want to license, we can talk.
Two of the lamps that I did for MGX are on their way to becoming
21st-century design classics: they've been shown worldwide and are
starting to show up in coffee-table books.
Minimal Surfaces in Hyperbolic Space
Enough said – if you are able to compute these and willing to
bear with a slow student, I have some notions.
Marketing Czar
This is more of a help-wanted than an open-question listing. I
can't pay an ordinary marketing consultant, and indeed have found that
such a person doesn't add value to my business. Nonetheless
there is a part-time job here, which naturally belongs to someone who
already has a relationship with scientific, mathematical or medical
design, and a built-in understanding of where these things have value
and what kind of person likes them. Duties include researching
opportunities, organizing a schedule, tracking placements, allocating
budget, and following up on what worked, in addition to production of
copy and layouts from existing materials. This is not a
consulting opportunity, it is a detail job with responsibility at
every level from broad strategy to proofing punctuation.
PS Please don't email to let me know that this is too many
requirements. I do this entire job in addition to making the art
and running the business, and I get paid a lot less than I'd pay you
if you could do it, so shut your piehole.
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