Turn your ideas, designs and art into profitable products using the latest processes and technologies. The digital computer and Apple’s IPad has open up many opportunities to design, develop and produce your ideas, art and designs. The Internet has created a way to communicate and market your creations. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Weebly have made it easy to connect with co-creators and customers.
Leap Frog Studios is developing a series of entrepreneurial workshops in the spirit of Hewlett Packard’s “start-up garage”, Silicon Valley’s successes, and Stanford University graduate school of Design. http://dschool.stanford.edu/index.php
Roger Lee, the founder of Leap Frog Studios, has been involved with all of these entrepreneurial enterprises. He worked as an industrial design manager for HP for over 14 years, founded Roger Lee/Design Associates, serving as a creative design consultant to many of the Silicon Valley start-up companies for over 20 years. He has a Masters Degree in design from Stanford University and teaches digital art in the fine art department at Cuesta College.
In the spirit of HP, Leap Frog Studios operates out of Roger Lee’s garage where he continues his creative energy by building an etching printing press, and currently creating fine art prints using non-toxic printing plates. http://digitalmonoprint.blogspot.com/ He has created a jewelry business using an innovative digital mold making technique with PMC material turning clay to precious gold and silver jewelry.
The latest entrepreneurial workshop will instruct you how to use your IPad to create a line of greeting cards and small art prints. In the workshop, participants will also construct a custom designed drawing stylus.http://leapfrogstudios.weebly.com
