Feeling Quirky
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Have you heard of this new show, Quirky? It’s a show all about product design. A social media community, Quirky.com, is a company that crowdsources ideas for innovation, let’s the community vote and influence products, and then if the idea is accessible, designable, and marketable, THEY BUILD IT. And whoever came up with the idea, ‘the inventor’, can make up to six dollar figures from the profits! I know, this intrigued me, too.
Well they made it into a show on Sundance Channel, but I’ve been catching it on hulu (the first episode is on hulu for a few more days!). I got the opportunity to work their premiere party at the Metropolitan Pavilion as an Invention Illustrator. Party attendants with ideas came to our booth to pitch us problems in the world that could be solved with a great invention, and we took to pen and markers to make them realized visually. Thanks again to Jordan Diatlo from Quirky for the opportunity!

(Right to Left) Ana Benaroya, Jordan Diatlo, Myself, and Frank Espinoza. These guys were brilliant illustrators, so give them some Google Analytics stats!

Here’s Ana taking on some lightly intoxicated, but enthusiastic inventors. Photos stolen from Quirky.com’s Facebook.
We got a lot of traffic! We were invited to get food and drinks but couldn’t with the volume of idea pitchers. And in addition, people were intrigued by the 3D Printers that sat next to us, printing off future Quirky designs right before party-goers. Thanks for reading, check out the video below. Don’t blink at minute 0:54 where you’ll see all three invention Illustrators get our draw on!







