Gwon Osang’s sculptures from photos
Artist Gwon Osang makes sculptures from photos of the original subjects, most of them seem to be life size and have over 300+ photos! [via] – 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.
Telecalculograph – Victorian era PC mod
Jonny5rd has an awesome case mod… he writes – “A few years ago, I purchased a bare-bones PC from Ebay. The internals were nice, and the case seemed pretty cool–at first. I quickly to grow tired of it’s cheesy, 1337-wannabe aesthetics; and even more so of my purely-functional mods. I wanted something new, and I […]
Art Of The Can – Art made from Red Bull cans…
If you’re looking for ideas on what sculptures to make from cans, the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis is hosting the Red Bull Art of the Can exhibition from November 4 to 12 – [via] – Link (Flash site, but click around the gallery is there). Pictured here: In an homage to the once popular […]
103 hours * ski gloves = unique jacket
This jacket designed by Martin Margiela took over 103 hours to make, all from ski gloves (I bet it’s really warm!)… – “Ski gloves are used as the raw material to create a blouson with or without sleeves. Over dyed in dark colours the gloves are unstitched and laid flat so that all original detailing […]
HOW TO – Tote Bag to Messenger bag
DuganJ writes – “My buddy went to a SolidWorks conference last fall and got a tote bag. He was going to throw it out and it was made of halfway decent rubberized nylon material. I was looking for a small messenger to use around campus and don’t have the dough for a Timbuk2 Classic Messenger […]
Conference tote bag refashioned to messenger bag
MAKE Flickr pool member duganj got an old tech conference tote bag from a friend and transformed it into a cool-looking messenger bag. Link.
Best of CRAFT
Here are a just of a few of the great projects, posts and articles Natalie is rocking out on the CRAFT blog. Pictured here, our CRAFT Pattern Podcast (PDF) pattern on making Felt Pillows from the new book Craftivity by Tsia Carson. We started sending out thousands of patterns via RSS/iTunes since launch, it’s a […]