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This post is part of a series in partnership with New York's Next Top Makers, a community-sourced incubator dedicated to connecting innovation with local production. We first met Alex and Nicole of blink blink at our event in NYC with Wix.com. blink blink is a Creative Circuit Kits company that provides all the necessary tools to engineer your own arts, crafts, and fashion projects with technology, specifically focusing on girls and their beautifully inspired and uninhibited creativity. What started as a graduate school thesis project has now, after numerous co-designing sessions with their target audience and a successful Kickstarter campaign, turned into a fully fledged company. We loved this project and were thrilled to get the chance to chat with them again as part of our ...

This post is part of a series in partnership with Wix.com, which is a web development platform enabling anyone to build a stunning online presence using simple cloud-based creation and management tools. Join us for an event on the Business of Making in partnership with Wix in New York on November 24th - RSVP here We’re interviewing some of our favorite Wix.com makers leading up to our event on the Business of Making on November 24th in New York. This week we chatted with Hannah Howard, the Creative Content Manager for Murray’s Cheese. We’ve featured Murray’s Cheese in the NY Makers Digest for their hands-on cheese making workshops, and were thrilled to have the chance to learn more about what makes them ...

This post is part of a series in partnership with Wix.com, which is a web development platform enabling anyone to build a stunning online presence using simple cloud-based creation and management tools. Join us for an event on the Business of Making in partnership with Wix in New York on November 24th - RSVP here We’re interviewing some of our favorite Wix.com makers leading up to our event on the Business of Making on November 24th in New York. This week we chatted with artist Sophie Kahn, whose work combines cutting-edge technology, like 3d laser scanning and 3d printing, with ancient bronze casting techniques. Sophie creates sculptures and videos that resemble de-constructed monuments or memorials. They engage questions of time, history, vision, ...

This post is part of a series in partnership with Wix.com, which is a web development platform enabling anyone to build a stunning online presence using simple cloud-based creation and management tools. Join us for an event on the Business of Making in partnership with Wix in New York on November 24th - RSVP here We’re interviewing some of our favorite Wix.com makers leading up to our event on the Business of Making on November 24th in New York. This week we chatted with Stephanie Benedetto, Co-founder of Paper No. 9, an innovative fashion and textiles company out of Brooklyn. How do you describe your business, and can you tell us more behind the story of your name, Paper No.9? ...