photo by Hello Craft Thursday was the longest day of the Summit of Awesome, kicking off with breakfast at 8:30 and winding down with the final afternoon session at 5:00. I taught two sessions myself midday (Jewelry Making and Craft Writing + Publishing) but spent the rest of the time checking out as many other […]
Inexpensive to make, and a lot better looking than the generic “tin can” variety.
Ask any knitter for his/her motivation, and you’ll get a wide variety of responses. It’s a great stress reliever, as the process can be very relaxing and therapeutic. Some knitters are “process” knitters and some focus on the end object. Well, some folks at Cardiff University in the UK are performing an anonymous survey, and […]
Perpetual Storytelling Aparatus by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus: The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus†is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references […]
The annual DMY Festival exhibits the work of more than 400 designers and is extended by over 40 satellite events around Berlin. This year the event hosted an international group of designer-hackers who brought in a factory’s worth of machinery to set up a Maker Lab. CNC milling, laser cutting, thermal forming, bioplastic molding, physical computing with Arduino, custom circuit board design and etching with Fritzing, RepRap and MakerBot 3-d printing, stop-motion animation and just about every other means of prototyping was in house
Jessica of How About Orange points us to these amazing paint chip art pieces created by Matthew Sporzynski (of Real Simple paper sculpture fame) for Sherwin Williams. I wonder if these are too awesome–Sherwin Williams might end up with a massive paint chip shortage as everybody rushes out and attempts their own creations. And by […]
I spotted Jared Rusten’s walnut and oak California table in the CRAFT Flickr pool this weekend, and I couldn’t resist sharing it! It’s four feet long and the wood was salvaged from a local CA source.
