Fine Art Alum Builds Entrepreneurial Business: Creating Custom-Wood Panels for iPhones
JackBacks, which provides custom-wood iPhone backs to a smart-phone generation, is the entrepreneurial brainchild of young fine art alum Adam Baumgartner.
The custom panels have made headlines on techie websites Mashable and Gizmodo and have been sold to MTV execs, and . Wired Magazine invited Baumgartner to the Comic-Con 2011 convention to display and market the panels.
featured on local media outlet, Soapbox.com.
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