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The Industrial Revolution: The Maker Movement

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Introduction

The Maker Movement has since been established for the independent inventors,designers and tinkerers. A combination of arts and technology who love to tinker about and creating new things that came to rise along with the advancement of technology and for some, marketing their product to the public.However the traditional crafters where their hands are the main source of development have since dwindled.

Craft is considered to contain critical thinking that results in the authenticity of a product. A skill of which that is quickly beginning to be overridden by technology. For Rossi, Catherine in The Architectural Review; She believes that craft is just simply having the interest for the art of making and to understand how …show more content…

To them craft was dead. Though what is considered craft now is brought about by the Hipster Movement where they find that making stuff with your hands is trendy and engaging.. What’s more they have invented a new expression for it. They are not crafty people, they are Makers. Making it possible for anyone to be tinkerers and not having to master the skill.

Impressed by such a feat, Chris Anderson boss of wired, declared the new industrial revolution as the Maker Movement. During the craft period, we made things that were considered a necessity . Makers in the modern era created craft beers, boutique vodkas and avant-garde wines that are unfiltered, preservative free, often orange and, just as often awful to taste and most of the time is for marketing purposes. In a way, The maker movement could be be seen as something was influenced by today's modern craft and could be seen in DIY`s and the modern craft movement.

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Though currently in the present technology has become more accessible and beneficial to makers, providing a personal connection to the backbone of the movement and has a better chance at supporting artisans for the years to come. Yet in this age, crafters have move on to be makers and tinkering with new prospects in different fields.

One of the example from the article of The Write stuff: calligraphy in the digital age talks about calligraphers who has been taking advantage of the advancement of technology and use the social sites a platform to spread the art of calligraphy and at the same time accepting commissioned work online. Among them is University student Dorcas hei that has had her interest piqued from various photos she saw on instagram. Now she says, it has been rewarding in the sense that she was able to make friends with those who has interest in the artform and some of them go as far as Whatsapp to discuss things

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