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Laate Olukotun, NextFab’s Director of Marketing for the last two and a half years, and longtime member, has moved on to pursue an exciting new opportunity a little closer to his North Jersey home. It’s hard to explain exactly what Laate has meant to NextFab due to both the scope of his work and all […]
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NextFab member Sarah Juanita is a dynamic artist working between Baltimore and Philadelphia. Her work feels simultaneously futuristic and ancient, techie and earthy. Unsurprisingly, her process follows the same duality- she uses high tech tools (primarily a laser cutter) and natural materials such as reclaimed wood and metal. “Too much of what we wear isn’t […]
Community First NextFab’s Wilmington, Delaware location, which opened in June of this year, is an exciting extension of NextFab’s commitment to community involvement. The genesis of the Wilmington location was itself a community development effort. Our latest location was willed into existence through the collective effort of many teams, including the incredible contributions of our forward-thinking […]
Things are getting a bit unruly in NextFab’s RAPID Hardware Accelerator. It started at the beginning of September when a Boston-based startup won a coveted spot in our latest Fall cohort. The edtech startup, Unruly Studios, came with a level of focus and enthusiasm that really got NextFab’s attention. Unruly Studios is changing the way […]
As NextFab’s RAPID Hardware Accelerator program has grown, its reach has extended dramatically. For the Fall 2017 cohort, thirty-seven teams submitted applications from across the US as well as France, Brazil, and India. Five teams were selected from Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston. In addition to providing access to state-of-the-art equipment, software, and training to help […]
Scott Keeley is a patent agent and industrial designer. He has engineered products from guitars to wind turbines. Scott works as NextFab’s resident patent advisor, but he’s also been busy in the woodshop building didgeridoos. A didgeridoo is an Australian Aboriginal wind instrument that’s history dates back over 1,000 years. So how did Scott come […]
Jezabel’s Studio Jezabel Careaga is a local restauranteur. Having moved to Philadelphia from Argentina in 2009, she opened her first restaurant, Jezabel’s, in 2010 in the Fitler Square neighborhood. With an innate design sense and a lifelong passion for design and architecture, she quickly learned from the spatial limitations and incongruities in her first restaurant. When […]
At the Intersection of Physical and Digital NextFab member, Dickie Cox, is a “transmedia artist, designer, and creative technologist”. If you asked him what that means, you wouldn’t be the first person to do so. Depending on the circumstance, his answer could be any number of things. Working with light, sound, structure and the places where […]
Building assistive technology for people with disabilities On Sunday, June 18th, a group of volunteers came together at NextFab’s South Philly location in pursuit of a noble goal – to spend the day building assistive technology devices for people with little or no use of their hands. During the all-day event, volunteers were given an […]
Local Market Growth NextFab’s community market program is quickly becoming a must-attend monthly event in Philadelphia. The Community Market for Makers and Shakers showcases the work of members in a venue that is much more than a simple point of sale. Spearheaded by North Fourth Location Manager Melissa Guglielmo and Assistant Marketing Manager Marcelle Rice, the […]