Craft & Design

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.

Hacked Oyster Card Ring

Hacked Oyster Card Ring

Anyone who’s spent time in London probably has an Oyster card sitting in their wallet or a miscellaneous drawer somewhere, but digital designer Dhani Sutanto has devised a more stylish way to access the London underground with this Oyster ring. The project basically consists of taking the chip and antenna from an Oyster card and […]

Topstitching Tips

Topstitching Tips

Topstitching lends a crisp, beautiful finish to sewing projects, and it’s my favorite way to add a splash of contrasting color to hems and necklines. Do your skills need a refresh? Check out these tips for better topstitching from Carol Ahles on Threads! More: Why Use a Topstitching Needle? @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Sew a Reversible […]

Telepresence Zen Garden

Telepresence Zen Garden

Harford Hackerspace’s Telepresence Zen Garden looks awesome! Such a great idea. For this year’s RedBull Creation competition, we had to incorporate a ‘Bullduino’ into the project of our choice. What is a Bullduino? It’s essentially an Arduino Uno shaped like the RedBull logo. So, we came up with the idea of creating a Telepresence Zen […]

Embroidered Newspaper Pictures

Embroidered Newspaper Pictures

These splendid embroidered newspaper images were created by artist Lauren DiCioccio. The tedious handiwork and obsessive care I employ to create my work aims to remind the viewer of these simple but intimate pieces of everyday life and to provoke a pang of nostalgia for the familiar physicality of these objects. [via mymodernmet]