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.
Ken sent in this hand painted band-aid skateboard, he writes – “I had an urge to put together a skateboard and had this idea for deck art. Irony comes together with a cheap blank deck and some paint. “ – Link. SKATE @ MAKE: Spotted on the Playa – Self-balancing skateboard – Link. Skateboard Slingshot […]
Retro Thing has the history and some links to these amazing animated records, seems like you could do this with a CD player if you modded the heck out of it (would be worth it!) or just get a record and start experimenting… – “These were cardboard children’s records with the animation printed right onto […]
Pat sent in this week’s “Cool stuff being made” – Trumpets! He writes – “When you hear the greats like Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Al Hirt, not everyone thinks first about manufacturing, but they should. After all, these folks are all playing on a manufactured product, the trumpet. This video […]
Nice blankets from CRAFT photo pool member Nuxievomica – Link.
Adding this to the crafty/makery/wedding dress collection… – “Baker Valentyn Shtefano and his bride Viktoriya show off her wedding gown, which Shtefano made out of flour, eggs, sugar and caramel in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod in Aug. 27, 2006. The edible dress, made of 1,500 cream puffs and weighing in at 20 pounds […]
Post up ideas for other images/text for the back of my business cards! – Link.
Stepping inside this suit by designer Matali Crasset gives you your daily dose of sunlight, it also looks like a lot of fun, relaxing, suspended, inflatable fun… I think I saw something like this in a Sons of Kypton comic book… – “”Energizer” – is a room which is flooded with light and invites visitors […]
