On Tuesday I shared my technique for planting a container garden filled with harmonic plants. Today I have a recipe for a garden that combines cool colors with warm ones for a dynamic and lush planting. Search out tall elegant grasses, and then pair them with low growing sedums. To bridge the gap, add broad […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Check out this excellent mecanum wheel by Flickr user ROB K636. If you didn’t know, mecanum wheels permit travel perpendicular to the rolling direction. He totally needs to submit this project to our MAKE/Makerbot Contest and upload the 3Ds to Thingiverse.
Today I’m excited to talk about Vickie Howell’s new book Craft Corps (out May 10th), a book on the craft community featuring 30 influential designers of the industry. The book was inspired by NPR’s Story Corps which was an audio project collecting people’s stories and archiving them for posterity. In this book, Vickie does the […]
Barnacles, snails, shells, rhinestones, freshwater pearls, and gilded alligator feet … It’s as if Neptune proposed to a Sea Witch on a full moon. New York artist Emily Miranda has a neoclassical flair for the decadent and macabre. With a degree in painting and another in combined media, Miranda has found her calling in sculptural […]
This excellent but very experimental cube by Thingiverse user Nudel_P is part of the outpouring of uploads to the ‘verse since the announcement of our MAKE/MakerBot Contest. I just downloaded Blender and and tossing around some ideas — you should too!
I seem to find myself saying something like this a lot these days: “We’ve seen this idea before, but, dang, this person is good at it.” Well, here goes again: We’ve seen this idea before, but dang, Andrea Petrachi (aka Himatic) is good at it. Andrea’s junkbot figurines are made from, well, junk, but he seems to have a particular flair for the use of old camera parts.
I’m loving these thread and found object sculptures from Jimmy Miracle. Check out his web site for pictures of all his works. I’m fascinated by the volume of threads used in such an interesting way. [via NOTCOT]
