How-To: Painted Parasol
A sweet parasol can be the perfect spring accessory, and Alisa Burke shows how to transform a paper parasol into a stunning work of art with nothing but a sharpie and some white acrylic paint.
Month: April 2010
Hexidecimal Scrabble tiles
NYC Resistor‘s Matt Joyce lasercut these neat unicode-compliant hex scrabble tiles. My new scrabble tile set provides game players with a fully international character set through the miracle of character set encoding standards. By using my entirely hexadecimal tile set you can deploy your scrabble words in full unicode, or simple ascii. I think however, […]
Reblown bottle glasses
Glassblower Nick Paul of Chicago drinks beer. (Hopefully, he has some friends who help him out with it, from time to time.) Then he takes the empty bottles and blows out their necks to make flat-sided tumblers. Then, in a stroke of packaging/marketing/recycling genius, he puts them back in their original six-packaging and sells them through his online storefront, Windy City Glass. The tumblers have smooth, rounded rims and are annealed to relieve internal stresses. No part of the original bottle is wasted. I love the green-on-green simplicity of his Heineken glasses, above, but the gestalt awesomeness of his Arrogant Bastard Ale tumblers, pictured below, may prove irresistible to me. If I know me, you folks have about an hour after this post goes up before I cave in and buy them for myself.
How-To: 70s String Art
Meg at Decor it Yourself shows us how to make this vintage-inspired 70s style string art wall piece to bring a little math graph style into your home decor!
Algorithmic synth uses swappable chips
Niklas Roy’s “Vektron modular” is a unigue approach to experimental synth hardware. The main device is essentially a control interface + display, capable of accepting a variety of digital chips as its core – The device plays compositions which are stored on microcontroller modules. The modules in this presentation are based on the Atmega family […]
Coffee Can Yarn Cubbies
I love these snazzy yarn cubbies from Lee Meredith. Better yet, they are recycled from coffee cans! See how she did it over on her blog.
Doubleplus clever dentist office flyer
Have I ever mentioned how much I love it when people post awesome stuff to the web with no background information? Like, just a picture with no annoying words about who took it or where or when? Yeah, that’s my favorite, as it enables me to commit timeless acts of journalism like this: “Somebody, somewhere, made this brilliant tearaway-teeth flyer for some lucky dentist, somewhere, and then somebody else from somewhere took a picture of it. You know, sometime.” [via Somebody-or-other]
