Craft & Design

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Embroidered Telephone Conversations

Phil writes: Artist Louisa Bufardeci made these embroidered telephone conversations, she writes… Warrantless, wireless, telephone tapping – how does it affect the home-sweet-homeliness of the domestic space? 13 captured telephone conversations – all one minute long captures the sense of paranoia generated by the idea that anyone could be listening in, anytime. These particular thirteen […]

Weather explorer umbrella

Weather explorer umbrella

Peter writes – At the installation “Weather Explorer Umbrella” s user can walk with a umbrella over a big worldmap – hear, see and feel the weather of a certain place of the world. The umbrella contains a small speaker, different color-leds and a handfan. A camera-tracking recognize the position of the umbrella with a […]

Sockphones

Sockphones

Randofo writes – After making a few Telephone Handset Microphones I came to realize that all of these handsets had perfectly good speakers that were not being put to good use. I set out to correct this problem. This is the natural solution. Sockphones are socks that are headphones. The sound quality isn’t the best, […]