Holiday Gift Tags
Ashley of Kitty Genius has made some cute gift tags of her illustrations (love them!) in PDF format that are free to download and use on your gifts! Check out her cute Etsy store too. Link.
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.
Creative MuVo V200 flash memory upgrade
Pablot shows you how to upgrade the flash memory from 512MB to 1024MB on a Creative MuVo V200 mp3 player – Link.
HOW TO – Fluorescent face art (highlighters and blacklights)
Jesse writes – “You should give this a try! Glowing makeup? Sorta, its highlighter! It works great when your playing lasertag. Nate totally went beyond the prerequisit level or cunning when he made a mobile way of doing the effect…” – Link & Glowing veins with a head-mounted UV blacklight. Related: Ultraviolet Acquiescence – Link.
11 Spring street – Graffiti, street art, urban canvas
11 Spring street in NYC is about to be demolished turned into condos, so over the weekend there was a huge graffiti art exhibit with some amazing works from artists around the world. Here are some quick pics of the outside we took and more info. More: Last Hurrah for Street Art, as Canvas Goes […]
PCB pictures with a scanner
David writes – “An image scanner can make great pictures of circuit boards. Not only are the pictures clear, they are very high resolution and have nearly perfect scaling. Perfect scaling means that you can actual make measurements from the image. Try that with a digital camera!” – Link.
Realistic Flies – Fly tying
Clive makes amazing insects, he writes – “I enjoy creating artistic and realistic flies, which are not designed primarily for fishing, just having fun trying to imitate insects and striving to make them look as alive as possible. Some of these flies have been acquired by collectors and placed on display, others used for product […]
Largest published book in the world
If you thought the Worldchanging book was big… Check out this one, it’s huge, 133 lbs! “According to Guinness World Records, at over five by seven feet (and 133 pounds), this staggeringly beautiful photographic book is the largest published book in the world–about one of the world’s smallest countries. Bhutan is the last intact Himalayan […]