Make Works Blog
Maker Speed Dater is coming to Dundee!
Make Works and Creative Dundee are bringing Maker Speed Dater to Dundee. An opportunity to have a conversation, learn about what can be made in Dundee and, who knows, maybe find that factory you've been looking for for months! Read more
Making Art Work - The Mike Smith Studio
We've been reading Making Art Work about West London's specialist art fabricators, the Mike Smith Studio. Read more
Factory Friday: Kalopsia Collective
Kalopsia Collective tell us about their new makerspace, The Facility, which provides textiles micro manufacturing to Scottish Designers Read more
Do's and Dont's : Communicating well with manufacturers in Scotland.
Tips for approaching factories and manufacturers in Scotland for the first time. Read more
FAB : The Coming Revolution on your Desktop - from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
We've been reading FAB - The coming revolution on your desktop from personal computers to personal fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld Read more
Factory Friday: Piccolo Press
Colin Kirkwood at Piccolo Press, speaks to us about the letterpress trade, "industrial craftsmanship" and what it is like to run a printing press in Nairn. Read more
Hospitalfield in Industry
What happens when you put screenprinters in a resin factory, or take a ceramicist to a stonemasons? Read more
Make Works is taking part in London's Open Mile
Make Works has been invited to take part in Open Mile, an open evening celebrating one square mile of open workshops, artist & design studios, fabricators, galleries, micro-factories, shops and businesses. Read more
Materials for Inspirational Design
We've been reading Materials for Inspirational Design written by Chris Lefteri Read more
Factory Friday: MAKlab Textiles
For this week's Factory Friday, we've interviewed Iona Barker, the technician at MAKlab Textiles; an open access textiles workshop within MAKlab that we've just added to Make Works. Read more
Emily Millichip Made Works
Lottie Burnley, operations manager at Make Works, just received her first piece of custom clothing made in Scotland – a shirt designed and made by shirt extraordinaire and bespoke seamstress Emily Millichip. Read more
The Case for Working with Your Hands
We've been reading The Case for Working with Your Hands written by Matthew Crawford Read more