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Current Press Releases
Disney's new line of robotic toys will debut at Maker Faire
"BEST SERIES OF EVENTS" – Make Magazine's Maker Faire Wins FOLIO FAME Award
Maker Faire Returns! – Booming DIY Fest Expects Record Crowds
MAKE's Weekend Projects Podcast – Best of 2007!
Maker Faire Returns to the Bay Area! - Tryouts Sunday February 17th at the Exploratorium!
Recent Major Press Coverage for Maker Faire Bay Area 2008 and Make Magazine
San Jose Mercury News May 3, 2008, Garage Edisons strut stuff by Lisa M. Krieger
San Francisco Chronicle May 2, 2008, Maker Faire = DIY gear heads + gadgets by Justin Berton, page E-1
The Economist May 1, 2008, Home invention: An increasing number of tinkerers are building their own gadgets
Sonoma West Times and News April 23, 2008, Maker Faire's Sebastopol roots are showing by George Snyder
FOLIO March 19, 2008: 2008 FOLIO FAME AWARD WINNER "Best Series of Events"
KLRU-TV - Docubloggers March 14, 2008, Dale Dougherty Talks About Maker Fair and Building Online Communities! by Domineque Belviva
NPR Weekend Edition March 9, 2008 Digital Culture Digital DIY Web Helps Do-It-Yourselfers Share Ethic by Jon Kalish
FOLIO March 3, 2008, 2008 FAME Awards Finalists Announced – Maker Faire: 2008 FOLIO: Fame Finalist
WIRED MAGAZINE February 25, 2008, Clive Thompson on How DIYers Just Might Revive American Innovation by Clive Thompson
ASSOCIATED PRESS February 19, 2008, Mags, Websites, Fairs Tap Tech DIY Boom By Seth Sutel
GOOD MAGAZINE January/February 2008, GOOD Joined Its Friends at Make for a Weekend of DIY - PDF
LA TIMES December 2, 2008, Sharing Tech's Whimsical Side: Magazines blossom from a couple's penchant for clever, unusual inventions By Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
WALL STREET JOURNAL November 26, 2007, Managing Technology Lights! Camera! Sales! How to use video to expand your business in a YouTube world MAKE MAGAZINE: Be Useful by Raymund Flandez
The Scoble Family Holiday Wish List November 23, 2007, Number 8: A subscription to Make Magazine. I love this magazine and my favorite event of the year is the Maker Faire by Robert Scoble
KLRU-TV - Docubloggers November 15, 2007, MAKER FAIRE: Society is built and driven by the innovations of brilliant and creative people, and if you're looking for a place to see contemporary innovators, look no further than Maker Faire. by Sean Cunningham
St. Paul Pioneer Press October 27, 2007, The Joy of Making Stuff: A new breed of mechanics, hackers, tinkerers and garage inventors are united by the urge to make the off-beat and outrageous just for the fun of it. by Richard Chin
Major Press Coverage for Maker Faire Austin 2007
Austin Statesman Journal Oct. 18, 2007 Do-it-yourselfers unite By Ricardo Gándara -- At Maker Faire, inventors, artists and crafters will show how tinkering in the garage culminates with inventions and new creations.
Austin Statesman Journal Oct. 12, 2007 A DIY day; bridal gown contest; shopping bonanza at the Domain By Melanie Spencer, Marques G. Harper -- Austin hosts weekend celebration of DIY
CBC Spark Radio Oct. 17, 2007 -- Interview with Maker Faire Director Sherry Huss about Maker Faire and the DIY movement.
KOOP 91.7fm Community Radio for Austin Oct. 11, 2007 The Maker Faire Comes to Austin -- Slappy Pinchbottom interviews Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, Sherry Huss, director of the Maker Faire, and Vern Graner, of Austin's The Robot Group. the resurgence of DIY culture, the roots of MAKE, the various attractions of this year's Maker Faire.
KUT-FM, Music, News, and NPR from Austin, TX -- Austin NPR affiliate talks to Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss about this weekend's Maker Faire.
KUT Radio interview with Marla Camp
The Austin Chronicle's Chrontourage - Register to win free tickets to Maker Faire!
The Austinist - The two-day, family-friendly event will showcase some of the coolest sh*t--arts, crafts, wickedly geeky science projects--you've never seen in your life; think Dorkbot but hulked out. What else would you expect from a festival organized by the staffs of Make and Craft magazines?
Major Press Coverage for Maker Faire Bay Area 2007
From KQED Quest:
CBS Sunday Morning: Tech Geeks Shine At Maker Faire -- TV feature from one of our favorite shows.
It's funtime for Crave at Maker Faire -- video coverage from CNET's blog.
Maker Faire from the Daily Geek
Video from G4: The Attack of the Show
Woz on the magic of electronics and computers -- News.com coverage of the talk by Steve Wozniak at Maker Faire.
Inventions: Clever, fun, useless from Associated Press
The Hippy Gourmet at Maker Faire
Previous Press Releases
Austin Mayor Declares Oct. 20 and 21 Maker's Weekend! - Mayor Will Wynn honors Maker Faire Austin. View the proclamation!
CalCars Conversion Demonstration! - Watch a PHEV come to life before your eyes.
Maker Faire Special Events! - Make OLD clothes NEW at the Swap-O-Rama-Rama! Build a catapult and compete at The King of Fling Catapult Competition! Learn to grow and make your own food with help from Edible Austin!
Calling All Inventors: Maker Faire Is Coming To Texas! - Auditions Sunday September 16 at The Children's Museum of Houston.
Maker Faire Comes to Austin! - Auditions Sunday July 15th at Austin's Children's Museum.
Maker Faire 2007: 400 Makers, 40,000 Attendees, 200,000 Square Feet of DIY Mayhem - "You ain't seen nuthin' yet..."
Make Magazine's Maker Faire Wins FOLIO FAME Award - 1st-time event beats out competition from Rachel Ray and Billboard
Maker Faire Returns! - "Woodstock for Inventors" Returns to San Mateo, CA in May 2007, and expands to Austin, TX in fall 2007.
For more information on Maker Faire or to register to attend as press, please contact Mark Ballard at: 212-255-8455 x225 or
"With throngs of young and old alike packing into the San Mateo fairgrounds, the 2007 Maker Faire was an improbable mixture of spectacle and practicality--a combination of engineering, crafts, science, and art that seemed to sufficiently blur the lines between all four."
-Bryan Gardiner, PC Magazine, May 21, 2007
"This is where inventors and artists come to share their wares."
- CBS Sunday Morning
"Don't be misled by the name of the weekend's staid-sounding 'Maker Faire'. The San Mateo-based event is a celebration of destruction as much as innovation, with touches of art and anarchy thrown in."
- Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, May 20, 2007
"Combining old-fashioned crafters with forward-thinking technorati, fashionistas, and mad scientists of all stripes, the Maker Faire is a hands-on celebration of all things DIY brought to life by Make magazine."
- The Onion, October 18, 2007
"Here at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, all of your twisted dreams can come true."
-HOST, G4, Attack of the Show! May 23, 2007
