Many of us in Boston Handmade use traditional techniques like sewing, knitting, painting, metalsmithing, and woodworking to make modern pieces of art and craft. But as a group, we're certainly not averse to new technologies--we blog, tweet, and sell on Etsy, after all.
Tony and I are increasingly dependent on our (...okay, okay, HIS) iPhone to both run our business and help us with our creative process. We use it to talk and write to our customers, find out what's going on in the design world, and to process credit cards at markets (so cool!). Importantly, we also entertain our dog and cats with bird noises with the iBird app. It's good for employee morale.
The newest tool we've been playing with is the Ben Color Capture application, which can be downloaded free from the iTunes app store:



How do you use technology to assist in your creative work?
Too cool! I gotta get me one of those....
ReplyDeleteOh goody! I just got an iphone for very similar reasons. I'm hoping to be able to stay on top of my etsy store while at shows and to be able to capture information to blog about later. This app looks too cool - gonna go and gets me some ;)
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