After my 'If Objects Could Speak...' project was featured on DesignBoom's daily coverage I was contacted by a website in America called Fast Company who wanted to write about my project. They wrote quite a nice article about it - here where my project was described as 'Scrapbooking, for the RFID Age ' which I found quite interesting because I hadn't really thought of it in that way before.
Following on from that I was contacted by a lady in Utah called Linda Fantin who said 'I read about your RFID storytelling device and found the idea fascinating especially as it relates to my passion, scrapbooking and memory preservation. I would like to learn more about your idea and write about it in my monthly scrapbooking column in The Salt Lake Tribune, a newspaper in Utah, the epicenter of modern scrapbooking. (Members of the Mormon faith are encouraged to document their family histories, fueling the past-time's popularity.)'
Again it hadn't really occurred to me that my project may be of interest to these kind of people. Before the project, for me, was purely based on ideas but now it seems it could actually have some commercial purpose. She went on to say 'There are more than a 100 major scrapbooking supply manufacturers in Utah.'
She also wrote a very interesting article, but more in depth and it can be read here.
I'm pleased that after not having much interested at New Designers that people are now contacting me for more information. It's clear now that my work didn't really belong in that environment. I'm also pleased that it has got people thinking about RFID technology and how it can be used for different applications.
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