Check out Elisa Strozyk‘s awesome pixelated textiles made with castoff wooden veneering. The wooden textile intends to look at the new ways wood can be manipulated from its hard physical property to a fluid form when combined with fabric. Providing flexibility to wood allows us to connect with it in new ways. Utilizing wood veneers […]
I just spent the last 30 minutes clicking through the etsy page of sewingmomma. She creates lovely fabric storage bins as an alternative to hideous plastic ones. These containers are sturdy and interfaced with your choice of traditional stiff interfacing, or organic interfacing. Plus, you can select from a practically endless selection of fabrics. Cute […]
John Baichtal @ MAKE writes: With GPS units shining from dashboards and Google Maps just a click away, maps have never been more of a part of our culture than they are now. Joshua Huyser‘s cartographical explorations embrace such concepts as travel, movement, paths, and directions.
The DIY mavens at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made this tabletop playable Pong game and very thoroughly documented the build and functionality. What is PONG supposed to represent? Our answer to this question is a game somewhere between pinball and ping pong: Two players each have a single knob that controls the position of a […]
Brooklyn-based lighting designer Lindsey Adelman has published a great tutorial on the construction of this cool spidery brass light fixture from various commercial bits ‘n’ pieces. [via Readymade]
I love the look of these fascinating jewelry pieces made from colored pencils by Italian designer Maria Cristina Belluci. [via HAUTE*NATURE]
Alex’s Emergency Excuse Generator (aka ‘EEG”) uses custom code fed with random input to determine word choice, resulting in convenient untruths so lifelike – you’ll swear it actually happened! … maybe the device uses the immense computational power and the 8K words program memory of a PIC16F690 microcontroller to demodulate an advanced lexico-semantical matrix and […]
