Tuesday Recap: in case you missed it, super jigsaw rig, graphic design in progress & other notes

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (29)

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (2)

In case you missed any of our spontaneous posts earlier today, here’s a quick recap of all the stuff that we got done!

It may look a little strange, but our jigsaw rig Kevin put together has really been a huge help today. Hiba made it through nearly 70 letters — and no wrist pain!

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (4)

Some final touches like this shim helped us to get it fine-tuned earlier today.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (1)

We had the cutting speed fairly high, and initially the jigsaw wasn’t quite locked down enough, so our cuts weren’t as straight as we would have liked.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (21)

However, once we got it all locked down, Hiba started speeding through the letters, which is completely necessary. We have about 400 letters to cut.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (3)

But, before that, Lucy came by to starting planning a project / event with Hiba and get up to speed with how things have been moving along here at CIVIC SPACE.

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Lucy did a kick ass job with our press releases late last month and we’re really happy she’s back! This is how she is currently keeping track of things.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (5)

It was a full house today, Rosina and Sara came by and double-teamed some design work that needs to get done ASAP in preparation for our launch next Thursday!

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We’re still pulling from these notes that we took during a meeting a couple weeks ago as we start to assemble a basic schedule design.

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Hiba made this note.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (9)

I spent the afternoon working on some answers for an interview.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (10)

Hiba flipped back to cutting more letters.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (11)

The library thus far.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (12)

Here’s a ribbon from a gift from DodoLab. Reminds me how much I love that gold printing / plating (what is it really called?) reminds me of track and field ribbons.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (13)

Snow storm.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (14)

Notes on the back of our window facade frame that Kevin came in to continue work on.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (15)

Rosina brought a polaroid camera and we instagramed old school.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (16)

Also, Rosina started to work with our new stamp as she finessed the design of our library card.

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XW.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (18)

I took a break and added some bunting to the construction zone in front of our place.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (19)

I also painted the jigsaw blades that we had in waiting with more nail polish.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (20)

Z!

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The remaining letters for the day.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (23)

Hiba announcing her record time to cut 4 letters, or 6 letters or something.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (24)

The back of our library card being designed.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (25)

Kevin further bracing the face of our window facade.

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Rosina at work!

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Stamp sizing.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (28)

Plotting our the date and letters checked-out setup for the back of our letter library card.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (29)

The back of the postcard in progress that Sara and I were tossing back and forth.

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Broken City Lab in the 1970s.

 Tomorrow: some meetings, some guest cutters, and a lot more fun. We’re here between 11am and 4pm, if you’re in the hood.

Nail polish solution to jigsaw blade visibility troubles

Jigsaw rig into half ban saw with nail polish as visibility improver (1)

The rig Kevin built has been slightly improved. We added some shims (made of styrofoam) to raise the table top and added this slick coat of red nail polish.

Jigsaw rig into half ban saw with nail polish as visibility improver (2)

The blade was basically disappearing when we were cutting the styrofoam, so hopefully this fixes it. Also, makes any bloodshed less conspicuous.

Jigsaw rig into half ban saw with nail polish as visibility improver (3)

Nice lines … thanks table top reverse half ban jig saw!