Has anyone seen the Go button?
If you’ve been following our progress you’ll know that we are a matter of weeks away from releasing our first product: a poseable 10″ action figure which is customised via the MAKIES website. Before we start to sell dolls we’re doing one final user testing session, to make sure we’ve got things about right, and we need your help. How will this work? A select few will be invited to come along to the Lab, where we’ll show you the full MAKIES website and a selection of action figures inside their packaging. The sessions will run in London from the 26th-28th...
Read MoreWanted: fine artist/painter for doll face R&D
Next in our list of want-to-meets! We’re looking for someone to help us improve and refine our facepainting ideas, materials and techniques. We’re designing for the types of folks who might want to do their own painting or modding too, but we also have to supply those who want a nicely finished figure in a box, with eyebrows and such necessities. (p.s. this monster is not any of our products, but kindly donated to MakieLab and is Alice’s pen pot) Know anyone who could help? They’d have to have: - a fine artist’s talent, a steady hand and a preference of working...
Read MoreYou lot are too good to us…
On Saturday 26th November we spent the day in the underbelly of the V&A Museum of Childhood with Coney and our brilliant and brave user testers – kids, teens and adults – playing with dolls, games and avatar customisation prototypes and hearing what they had to say about what we’d made and what else was out there. Thanks to everyone who came for your time and your enthusiasm. If you want to stay in touch for the next sessions (for more goody bags, cake and boogly eyes!) you can join the Makielab mailing list – we’ll be posting future testing calls and dates...
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