Month: June 2009

Roger Wood’s Klockwerks

Roger Wood’s Klockwerks

Tucked away on an unassuming post-industrial avenue in Toronto, Canada, is Roger Wood’s Klockwerks. A self-identifying Steampunk clock-maker, Wood is a collector and fabricator of romantic artifacts and oddities. As an artisan of fantasy his work is an amalgamation of timepieces and neo-Victorian aesthetic. If you’re familiar with the Klockwerks Chronulator, featured in Make: Online […]

Bridesmaid Invites

Elise Blaha of Enjoy It is getting married next April and created these spectacular bridesmaid invites. Elise writes: I am planning on having five bridesmaids (and a possible sixth depending on the Peace Corps and the price of flights from Guatemala) and I asked them via phone, email or text message last week. I told […]

Teaching mirrors new tricks

Teaching mirrors new tricks

Andrew Hicks, a mathemagician at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, has lately made headlines with one of those head-slappingly simple, brilliant, OMG-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that sort of projects: He makes mirrors. Not the run-of-the-mill flat mirrors most of us use every day for identifying vampires, but totally unorthodox, heretical, downright blasphemous mirrors with convoluted surfaces that do tricks I didn’t […]