About

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 Free and Open Source Software, Creative Commons licenses/technology, growing on-line and off-line communities in San Francisco, China and the Arab World.

The company builds upon the current roster of fabricatorz’ skillsets. The company currently consists of Jon Phillips with 15+ years of experience in new media production, the software industry, building communities and free/open software development. Brad Phillips delivers with his general production magic and a specific skillset in mobile development, 3D design and virtual reality production. In 2010, the team is building upon the skillsets of publisher Christopher Adams, hacker Bassel Safadi, media technologist Barry Threw, security expert Nicky Bourque and writer Spencer Young. 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.

Services

International On-line and Off-line Community Building
Website Programming, Design and Development
Software Design, Development, and Management
Free Software + 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, Chinese and Arab languages
Security Auditing and Analysis
Conversion from closed to open source development model
Object production/fabrication: Interface with Chinese production companies

People

Jon Phillips, Founder/Developer

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.

Nicky Bourque, Developer

Nicky Bourque is a San Francisco based software developer and security consultant. He has completed a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is currently a freelance software developer and artist working on WikiMagazine and AutoStat. His interests include digital media, secure coding, and new and emerging arts.

Brad Phillips, Developer

Brad Phillips is a developer and 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.

Christopher Adams, Developer

Christopher Adams is a publishing professional and free culture advocate based in Taipei, and runs his own book production and typesetting practice. Freesouls: captured and released by Joi Ito was his first fully Creative Commons-licensed book project. Christopher is a co-founder of Sharism.org and a member of the Creative Commons Network. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in Cognitive Science.

Bassel Safadi, Developer

Bassel Safadi is a software developer and a 3D technical director with ten years of practical experience.
He has extensive experience in open source development including Linux kernel and Apache server. He started web application development in 2000 and 3D visual effects in 2005.

His latest work includes a 3D photo realistic reconstruction of the old city of palmyra (Syria), real time visualization, and developing a web programming framework (i.e., aikiframework).

He graduated from Riga technical university (rtu) Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (Latvia), with a bachelor in computer science in 2001. He has also obtained a M.Sc.IT from the University of Damascus (Syria) in 2004.

Barry Threw, Developer

Barry Threw is a technologist working to enable digital media artwork. He develops systems and tools for rich immersive and interactive media experience; combining sound, video, network, and audience interactions.

His education was spent studying the intersection of music and media technology. He holds dual majors in Music Engineering and Music Synthesis from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA; and an MFA in Electronic Music & Recording Media from Mills College in Oakland, CA.