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It’s been another busy week in the studio and we are closing in on the next major release. Here’s a quick update on what happened last week:

• The ‘Save to Curator’ Safari Extension is nearing public release after some great feedback. A big ‘Thank You’ to all our beta testers!

• We met with the founder of an international graphic design studio and learned about their internal workflow and how they present ideas to their clients. They shared valuable insights into their need for simple yet powerful tools.

• Prototyping a ‘Publish’ feature. This would allow Curator users to publish Boards to pages on the Curator website, but ultimately to your own website.

• Investigations into the feasibility of a Desktop version of Curator. We are exploring various workflow alternatives, use cases and technical hurdles to overcome. Will we be able to make Curator work on the Mac?

• Further content reworking and tweaking on the website.

It’s been a busy week in the studio and we are hard at work on the next major release. Here’s a quick update on what we have been up to:

– A new version of the iOS app was released to our beta testers introducing; Sharing and collaboration, Bigger boards, individual Pinterest pin import as well as a number of bug fixes. Want to help us test?
Register to be part of the beta program.

– We also started beta testing our brand new ‘Save to Curator’ Safari Extension. Which makes it a snap to save websites and images to Curator from a computer.

– The blog has been updated with more creative resources, inspirational references and historic app release notes. There’s a lot to check out!

– A number of user interviews gave us some amazing insights into their respective workflows. We met with a design-focused PR agent, a world-renown tattoo-artist/art-director and an award winning international architect, quite a mix!

– This idea got us to improve our user research and support funnels in Trello.

Open a board and tap on an empty cell, tap the ‘Text’ icon and you are able to write a text note.

If you want to make a note related to an image or a website you have added to Curator you can do so directly on the cell, please see How do I add a note to an image or web cell?.

Back in October we invited Loris&Livia to our Creative Process talks at the V&A—along with other creative practitioners.They told the story of Tipsy glass, how they evolved the hunch of an idea into a product, marketed and sold worldwide.

Loris Jacquard mentioned on the night: “TIPSY started as a small local project at Bar Alto in London and is now sold worldwide. But what makes us really proud is that although we are now talking of mass production, we managed to stick to our original concept which was to make each glass truly unique.”

The original Picardie tumbler, made in France by Duralex.

Their presentation focused on how through countless experiments they managed to find their own unique production process and keep total control over it.

Tipsy, by Loris&Livia

Last week, Loris&Livia produced their 10,000th glass!

On this occasion Loris&Livia were interviewed by design magazine Disegno for their pre-Milan Design Week issue along with Viktor and Rolf, Jasper Morrison and Jonathan Olivares. The article goes into the Tipsy details and anecdotes; it is an inspiring read for anyone interested in small batch, designer-led production.

The original first edition of Tipsy, commissioned by Bar Alto

Interview and article in Disegno issue 8.
Loris&Livia website; you can buy Tipsy from here and here.