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.
Joel Miller of Massachusetts wrote in to share this great blog post on the importance of sketching up a design prior to booting up the computer. I have been struggling with the design of an enclosure for my CNC mill that would allow me to use flood coolant and contain the mess of metal and […]
You know how you’ve been looking for a map with all of the best places in the world to be an artist marked on it? And remember how you wanted it to be knitted by hand? Well look no further because Bonnie Kate Wolf has knitted just such a map. I am hand knitting a […]
Here’s another great designer-inspired DIY by A Pair and a Spare. The best part of these handmade Burberry-inspired embellishments can go on any pair of shoes!
Lauren Steeper (Sheffield, UK) has a cross-stitch game, Lottery Words, and I want to play! It is just the sort of highly ordered and yet completely unnecessary ritual that I love. And it combines crafting and words? So awesome! To start, she cut every word out of the dictionary and threw them in a jar. […]
My old friend and cohort Nate Heasley sent me this announcement for a cool summer opportunity available through his non-profit org, Goodnik
I wish I had the patience and hand-eye coordination to do intricate paper-cuts, so I am always blown away by people who make it an art. Stuart McLachlan is clearly a master of paper-cut; his stunning kid’s party hats and elaborate installations are incredible. I love the way he immerses people in the paper. (Via […]
Textile artist Ferret (Harrow, UK) made this impressive quilt, “Bad Rain,” inspired by an illustrated spread in the graphic novel Cancertown. She then brought the quilt to a comic show, and scored a photo with the graphic novel’s artist, Stephen Downey, and the author, Cy Dethan (below). Unfortunately the 629 pixel width of this blog […]
