The New Domestic shows you how you can easily create your own modern large scale painting for non-artists. With some painter’s tape and acrylic paint, you can easy make a colorful and bold piece of art for your home. [via How About Orange]
On July 10th, we’re organizing a Mini Maker Faire in Aspen Colorado, in association with the Aspen Big Ideas Festival. We’ll have some folks from SparkFun, SF’s Exploratorium, the Denver Mad Scientists Club, Lynne Bruning’s wearable technology, the Cellbots project, MAKE writer John Maushammer, and a lot more. We’ll be at Gondola Plaza from 10am […]
Heidi Adnum gives some fantastic photography pointers in her two part series on Etsy. Learn to use backgrounds, props, and scale in part 2, and color, light, and reflection in part 1.
Nick Starno’s 3D-printed Makerbot watch case (can haz STLs in Thingiverse?) is pretty neat, but it also made me think it would be super cool to have a version of the PCB with a compass module included — pocket watch slash compass? [Via clothbot]
Here’s a drool-worthy summer ice cream recipe from Bridget of Bake at 350. She’s created a Drumstick-style ice cream cone with coconut almond ice cream inside. “Think of an Almond Joy candy bar, frozen.” Cold, refreshing and chocolate? My kind of dessert!
Jessica at Nervous System writes: I created this design yesterday for the Shapeways SIGGRAPH competition which asked designers to submit any design that costs less than $200 to 3dprint. Our submission is a sculptural vase generated by reaction diffusion, a process which simulates how chemicals diffusing across a surface react with one another to produce […]
Over on Coroflot, Alexandra Peters writes: This project was a collaboration between Herman Miller and Pratt students. Students were asked to design a product that demonstrated a deep understanding of a culture. They call this comfy Celtic knot “Knot Lounge,” but I can’t help from referring to it as a “noodle chair.” [via the CRAFT […]
