Year: 2009

RISD’s Nature Lab

Etsy recently gave us a look inside the Nature Lab at Rhode Island School of Design, a collection of natural specimens originally established for nature drawing. I remember visiting the Nature Lab on my visit to RISD as a prospective student, and it just blew me away. They even have taxidermy mashups of animals that […]

Infernal machines as high art

Infernal machines as high art

Disclaimer: We at the MAKE blog do not advocate the construction or operation of chariots with giant whirling blades to chop people into bits, even if they are very rude. Nor, in general, do we like to celebrate the creation of unstoppable killing machines. Or even stoppable ones, for that matter. But we’re prepared to […]