Core 77
reports on the production of wooden cases for
USB drives in Sao Tome:
SEED 2006, a Design and Social Economy project financially supported by the Portuguese Cooperation and developed by designer Pedro Alegria, introduced USB flash card design to local craftsmen, all of whom had never seen or heard of such things before. The end result merges traditional "forgotten" craft with hot technology on the rise, sustaining the working families' needs and offering unique craft-designs to the masses.
Core 77 reports on the production of wooden cases for USB drives in Sao Tome:
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Hello ,
I would like to know a little more about with the craftmen designing these Usb covers.
Are they distributed already in the states, europe, West africa ?
Ho do we contact with them , could you provide a URL to their site or give their personal information
Thank you , F.Tape
The contact email addreses are
pedro.alegria@gmail.com for Pedro Alegria and patrickdecarvalho@yahoo.fr
for Patrick de Carvalho
just asked a friend in STP about these USB drives, and she writes:
"It's the Catholic church charity here who has a project with some rural woodcarvers. Since the news of this went out on the web they have been inundated by requests. Some Dutch NGO wants 10,000. They can't meet the demand. But it will certainly be a nice job for some rural folks, and they could scale it up - I don't know if they have the capacity to do that."
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