Super satisfying day at the generator .. My mom even came to help .. Friends Ben and Jerry are big supporters of Bernie (and so am I). Their mission is to create some ultra cheap and ultra visible light up lawn/window/car signs for Bernie in support of the upcoming Iowa Caucus and NH Primary. We’ve been working on some prototypes using either cheap battery powered or plug in xmas lights. The idea is to sell them starting next week on ETSY at cost.
Here are two of the design prototypes Ben made..
We’ve been hand making them.. but that won’t scale to the hundreds we need to make, so today we had a work party at The Generator to come up with a more scalable.. and it turns out … cheaper version.
We had a verity of folks stopping by to help, kibbutz, watch, whatever.. even some kids !
We experimented with several designs, and processes.. all caps, mixed caps, different colors, fonts and spacings. Eventually we opted for a rework of the ‘traditional’ Bernie sign.. We first hand drilled some holes for the lights.. then set up to laser drill them . Here’s Ben plugging one of the hand prototypes
Distance check !
What else can you spell with the letters from ‘Bernie’ ?
here’s the set up for the first laser cut one.. (I’d printed a single color sign at Fedex.. thanks to Matt F for design 1, Jeme for design 2 and John M for assembling it)
Here are the boys attempting to keep their fingers safe cutting it to size.
Here we go with the laser.. Bern-baby-Bern !!!!
john pokes out the ‘pregnant chads’
and Voila !!!
Here’s Ma with the instigators
Enjoying a little bit of cardboard pinball !
By the end of the day we had the artwork worked out, the printed signs, stakes, lights and packing material ordered. We’ll get them by the end of the week and be shipping by next week.. Great team effort !.. Go Bernie ! Go Generator !
Special thanks to all the folks at generator (Matt, Matt, Erik, John, Jeme, Jake, Peter, Heather, Brook, Beth, Scott, Letth, Rob, Turner, and the nice woman who let us take some of her laser time.) for making it such a Fab place to Fab..
Onward to the primaries !
nite all, nite sam
-me