Beta Objects

Failure is not always failure. If realized it is the point of...

stavn — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:17:43 -0600

Failure is not always failure. If realized it is the point of change.

Never afraid to fail.

stavn — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:09:45 -0600

Never afraid to fail.

Its official, Beta is Moving.

stavn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:32:41 -0600

More details soon…

Photo

stavn — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:19 -0600

minimalmac: warbyparker: Ten years of evolution: 2011 iPod vs....

stavn — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:33:26 -0600

minimalmac:

warbyparker:

Ten years of evolution: 2011 iPod vs. 2001 iPod.

Progress.

Ten years of constant product development, insight, and keeping things simple.

Everybody is a genius. 9gag: (via 9GAG - Think before you...

stavn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:14:13 -0600

Everybody is a genius.

9gag:

(via 9GAG - Think before you talk.)

Its all about the desktop, do more with less.

stavn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:33:01 -0600

Its all about the desktop, do more with less.

"bsnss dvlpmnt + thnk tnk + blg"

stavn — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:37:34 -0600

“bsnss dvlpmnt + thnk tnk + blg”

- beta is more mnml.

Happy to see Nick Disabato (author or Cadence & Slang)...

stavn — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:33:00 -0600

Happy to see Nick Disabato (author or Cadence & Slang) launch yet another amazing Kickstarter project, a digital and print publication called Distance.

“Distance is a new quarterly publication featuring long-form essays about design and technology. Follow @distance on twitter. Your support will fund printing and shipping, paying our writers a respectable fee, licensing top-notch typefaces, and distributing digital bundles containing PDF, ePub, and Kindle editions.”

Design is a not a department.

stavn — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:08:04 -0500

(Via untitle.d)

Oakland's Welcome.

stavn — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:41:00 -0500

I am in the Bay Area developing some startups. I just flew in last night and am staying with my rad brother-in-law at his diggs in Oakland. On my way in he gave me a heads-up to Occupy Oakland. Better said on the NY Times there is some chaos going on.

It makes the chaos of a startup quite simple, there is a lot at stake, but no teargas or rubber bullets.

Image courtesy of Jim Wilson for the New York Times.

Fog

stavn — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:47:30 -0500

Headed to SFO today.

Opportunity

stavn — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:54:00 -0500

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

- Thomas Edison

Thank you for changing everything.

stavn — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:23:00 -0500

I wrote a post about change today, focused on Beta and where we have been. I had no idea that later in the day the most surprisingly difficult change for me would happen. A personal hero to me, and several others Steve Jobs is no longer here. I don’t write this to immortalize Steve as an innovator or visionary, of which he clearly is, but as someone who has admired him as a man; a man who has followed his heart, a man who has lived his own life. To his wife, Laurene, family and dear friends - my heart is also heavy.

Image courtesy of Wired.

Changes

stavn — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:50:00 -0500

Some people love it, some people hate it but we all know that constant change is life. You are not alone, at Beta we have been working hard in a rapidly changing economy. If you have followed Beta from the start, or even supported us, you have seen us transition over the last year and a half. For those just tuning in, here is the rundown.

1. Our original goal was to furnish a prototype shop and raise enough money to put down some floors and purchase some fundamental tooling. Thanks to Kickstarter and all our backers we got the funding to do that.

2. Once the funding arrived, so did change. Our space was under discussion of being sold. The funding for the floors had to be scratched, and reserved for the move. While the space worked out for the first eleven months, it was apparent beta had to find a new home.

3. Upon finding a new space with two amazing roommates (props to Moss) Beta was able to setup a viable prototype shop, shortly followed by opening its doors via the web. From Beta’s interactions with our new clients, we realized how much of a disadvantage startups, entrepreneurs, and small business were having developing new revenue models through products or services. Ahem.. change?

4. Here we are! Always in motion, in constant ‘beta’, now with some new features, services and solutions. Beta is a design blog + think tank x prototype lab = problem solving collaborative awesomeness. We are Industrial and Interaction Designers working with entrepreneurs and startups who have the passion for making big ideas happen, launching innovative products and changing the way we do business. Stay tuned..

RELAUNCH - Beta Objects - The Prototype Shop.

stavn — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:41:52 -0500

RELAUNCH - Beta Objects - The Prototype Shop.

stavn — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:34:33 -0500

RELAUNCH - Beta Objects - The Prototype Shop.

Kickstarter Log Complete.

stavn — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:19:59 -0500

As most of you know I have been hacking away at a project called “beta” that got funded on Kickstarter in January 2010. Because of my backers Beta Objects exists. With out their support into an idea, this would have just been an idea. Thank you for this.

Today I am switching gears and tying loose ends. I am going to stop posting to this Log for now. I started this tumblr account for my backers to show beta’s progress and right now its a perfect account of just that. My next and last post for now will link to the revamped site, where I am opening up shop officially.

I can not say enough thanks to all who have believed in me, and are willing to put up their money on me. I hope seeing the progress on this project has paid off for you as well.

Next up.. Launch.

Stop Motion from Auburn Alabama to Chicago Illinois via the...

stavn — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:11:31 -0600

Stop Motion from Auburn Alabama to Chicago Illinois via the iPhone 4.

Less talk more doing, something…

stavn — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:51:55 -0600

Less talk more doing, something…