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MakerSpark

MakeDesignerBags joins the MakerSpark family.

MakerSpark is its own brand, a course platform made only for makers and home to independent craft studios. MakeDesignerBags is one of its founding studios.

MakerSpark on a phone: a lesson, photo feedback and the lesson helper
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About MakerSpark

One home for independent craft studios

MakerSpark is a brand of arandoo, Inc. and not a MakeDesignerBags project. It brings independent studios together on one platform that is made for how makers learn: no lesson hidden behind menus, no manual before you can press play. MakeDesignerBags is one studio of several, each with its own craft and its own courses.

Learn more at makerspark.io

Built for makers, not for marketers

Every screen starts from the work on your table: the video, the step you are on and what comes next.

Simple enough to just start

Open your course and press play. No manual, no hunting through menus, nothing to set up first.

Your lesson, your language, your pace

Watch it or read it, in five languages, online or saved for when you are offline.

Inside MakerSpark

Everything next to your hands

A MakerSpark lesson with video and reading format
Step-by-step courses

Watch it, or read it

Every lesson comes as video or as text. Take lesson notes, download the patterns, cutting charts and PDFs, save lessons for offline and get your certificate when you finish.

The lesson in English
The same lesson in Portuguese
Five languages

Your language. The video too.

English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. When the studio recorded a lesson in your language, the video switches with it, not only the captions.

The helper answers from the lesson and links to moments in the video
A helper that knows the lesson

Ask about the lesson. Jump to the moment.

Stuck halfway through a step? Ask in plain words. The helper answers from the lesson you are on and takes you to the exact moment in the video. Hands busy? Dictate your question.

Written photo feedback on a zipper in progress
Photo feedback

Show your work. Get the next step.

Send a photo of your work in progress and get specific, written feedback on what the photo shows, with the next step to take.

The MakerSpark community feed
Community

Makers helping makers

Post your work and your questions, reply to other makers, send direct messages and join the events your studio runs.

Discover makers: studios on MakerSpark
Discover studios

One studio of several, all in one app

Bag sewing with MakeDesignerBags, leather work with LeatherCraft Mastery, traditional Dirndl sewing with Rosmarie Henke, and more studios to come. Follow more than one and switch between them in one tap.

Notifications you control. Hear when a new lesson lands, when someone replies to you or when an event starts. You choose which ones you want.

Every device

One account. Your progress everywhere.

Start a lesson on your laptop and pick it up on your phone at the sewing table. On the web, iPhone and Android.

MakerSpark
Unlimited members go first

Unlimited members get MakerSpark two weeks early.

Before MakerSpark opens to everyone, MakeDesignerBags Unlimited members use it for real and share what they think.

  1. Use it for realYour courses, your projects, on the devices you already use.
  2. Tell us what works and what does notHonest feedback, the small things too.
  3. Shape the next updatesYour feedback goes into the next MakerSpark updates.

Know a maker studio that belongs here? Recommend it with its website, and the MakerSpark team will take a look.

For studios

Teach a craft? MakerSpark is open for new studios.

MakeDesignerBags is one of the founding studios. MakerSpark welcomes independent studios of every craft, and studios apply directly with MakerSpark.

  • MakeDesignerBags
  • LeatherCraft Mastery
  • Rosmarie Henke
  • Your studio?

Not an Unlimited member yet?

Become Unlimited and you join the early access group: MakerSpark opens for you two weeks before everyone else.

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FAQ

Questions about MakerSpark

What is MakerSpark?

MakerSpark is its own brand by arandoo, Inc.: a course platform for independent craft studios. MakeDesignerBags is one of its founding studios, next to LeatherCraft Mastery and Rosmarie Henke. Learn more at makerspark.io.

When does MakerSpark open?

MakerSpark opens to MakeDesignerBags Unlimited members first, then to everyone on the waitlist. Join the waitlist and we will let you know.

Do I lose my courses?

No. You keep the same courses with the same access.

Which languages does MakerSpark speak?

English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. When the studio recorded a lesson in your language, the video switches too.

Can my studio join MakerSpark?

Yes. MakerSpark is open for new studios of every craft. Apply at makerspark.io.

How do I get early access?

Unlimited members are invited first, two weeks before everyone else. Not an Unlimited member yet? Become Unlimited and you join the early access group.