From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
The cardboard toilet paper tube is a great crafting material: cheap, upcycled, and full of possibility. Check out these 12 fun crafts to use up that bag of toilet paper tubes you’ve been collecting in your craft corner: [make_slideshow slug=”12-awesome-toilet-paper-tube-crafts” title=”12 Awesome Toilet Paper Tube Crafts” link=”Start the Slideshow”]
Do you have a party coming up? Make your own party hats with this tutorial, and free template download, from Alison of The Alison Show. You can make the pony version featured at her party or try make your own design with her blank template. (Photo by Heather Mildenstein)
Book Review: Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess Review by Meara O’Reilly I recently experimented with using the oxalis plant (more commonly known as the weed sourgrass) to dye some towels a bright yellow. It was such an easy and rewarding process, I wanted to look around and see what other colors might be within reach! This book […]
Everyone seems to be overflowing with zucchini at this time of year, and while I’ve made zucchini bread, zucchini fritters, zucchini chips, and zucchini roasted every which way, I have never tried zucchini pickles!
ITP resident researcher and sound artist Nick Yulman has expanded his Bricolo modular music system to now include melodies.
Hands down, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and Instructables user Tatterhood has got me all inspired to get started on my costume with her jaw-dropping Ryuk costume tutorial. (Ryuk is a character in the anime series Death Note.) The mask and feather shoulder pieces are rad, guaranteed to scare the living daylights out of both […]
Artist and designer Yuri Suzuki created a working AM/FM radio on a PCB, with the copper tracks and silk screening influenced by the iconic London Underground map, drawn by engineering draftsman Harry Beck in 1931. In fact, Beck specialized in drawing electrical schematics, so his map of the Tube is more of a schematic, since, in […]
