The Fabricatorz is a “open” production company that creates projects 50% of the time internally and then takes on external projects the other 50% of the time. We specialize in Open Source Software, Creative Commons licenses/technology, growing on-line and off-line communities in San Francisco and China.

The company builds upon the current roster of fabricatorz’ skillsets. The company currently consists of Jon Phillips with 14+ years of experience in new media production, the software industry, building communities and free/open software development. Newcomer Brad Phillips delivers with his general production magic and a specific skillset in mobile development, 3D design and virtual reality production. The company has offices in San Francisco, Guangzhou and Beijing in order to serve as local interface for many forms of creative production. In these locations the team scales with new employees, adapting to each project.

For a listing of all projects, both active and completed, please see the /projects section of the site.

Contact us if you want to hire the Fabricatorz.

Services

• International On-line and Off-line Community Building
• Website Programming, Design and Development
• Software Design, Development, and Management
• Open Source + GNU/Linux Software Development
• Open Content (Creative Commons-based projects)
• International Business Development
• Video + Audio Production
• 3D + Virtual Reality Production
• Translation/Internationalization with emphasis on English and Chinese languages
• Conversion from closed to open source development model
• Object production: Interface with Chinese production companies

People

Jon Phillips

Jon Phillips (rejon) is an artist and developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, leads the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions and the Laoban Open Soundsystem in Beijing.

Brad Phillips

Brad Phillips is a new media artist dealing in all forms of digital art. Having 4+ years of experience in 3D and interactive digital art creation and nearly 10 years of music performance and audio editing experience, much of his current work attempts to treat audio as an integral part of an interactive virtual experience. His interactive artwork developed the company (http://semiautomatic3d.com) and has been publicly shown most recently at the spring 2008 UIC Art Department show. Chicago Public Radio’s weekly program, “Hello Beautiful“, featured Phillips’ work in spring 2008.

Brad graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in May of 2008 with a degree in Electronic Visualization where he studied with Daria Tsoupikova, Sabrina Raaf (http://raaf.org), and Daniel Sauter (http://daniel-sauter.com/). His specialties include interactive environment development, virtual reality, processing, music performance, and audio production.