Craft & Design

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Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

These are are just a few of architect and artist Gregg Fleishman’s amazing “panel puzzle” designs. To left, a 2002 chair called Nebula II, and to right, a timeline showing stages in the evolution of his 1979 Lumbarest design, the first prototype of which dates to 1975. Besides furniture, Gregg also designs buildings and model vehicles using a similar body of techniques.

Math Monday: Prime Wardrobe

Math Monday: Prime Wardrobe

By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics Although Math Mondays has featured mathematical clothing before, it turns out there is an entire subgenre of clothing and accessories featuring those indivisible nuggets of the arithmetical world, the prime numbers. These range from the most basic, a list of prime numbers on the front (and composites […]

Details of C64 Bass Guitar Hack

Details of C64 Bass Guitar Hack

The always inspired Jeri Ellsworth outdid herself at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area. Jeri is known for the phrase “Did you bring a hack?” and she lives by such sentiment — Jeri always brings a hack. This year, at Maker Faire, it was a Commodore 64 Bass “keytar” that makes use of the original […]