Maker Faire Bay Area 2023
Patent Depending
Home: California, United States
Since 1974 I have published my own unusual product concepts in magazines such as Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Sierra and many others. I have had an online website www.patentdepending.com, since 2009. I have promoted invention ideas and invention whimsy via a NOODLINGS feature since late 2017 on Facebook. My booth, with my books and prints, excites curiosity and amusement, esp. among the young. In the last few years including 2019 at San Mateo, I was selling more than 80 books. I also participated in Maker Faires in China (X'ian and Shenzhen), Solano County, Sacramento County and East Bay (Oakland).
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Steven Johnson
As a magazine cartoonist starting in 1966, I found a knack for inventing odd, unexpected, or prophetic products. I participated in eight Maker Faires in San Mateo California, 2012-19, and two in China, 2017-18, where I shared my books and prints.
http://patentdepending.comWhat Inspired You to Make This?
At age 36 in 1974, while serving as a cartoonist for SIERRA magazine, an assignment led me to discover a latent talent to imagine unique, odd or humorous design concepts. A side career was born that continues to age 85. At Maker Faires in San Mateo from 2012 until 2019, I interacted with all ages and shared my enthusiasm and techniques for blue sky, outside-the-box thinking, I sold my many books and prints at my PATENT DEPENDING booth. I have participated in Maker Faires at several cities in California, as well as in China in 2017 and 2018. A large, 400-page volume, PATENT DEPENDING, containing my product and scenario concepts, was published in Beijing, with captions in simplified Chinese.
