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.
Street Use points to an interesting site ‘Future perfect” (Nokia) that has a large collection user-research, repair culture type posts and observations from around the world … Like this one, the ink refilling services in in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City above and Delhi – [via] – Link. Related: Refill ‘er up – […]
From last months Pincushion challenge comes a crop of some very inspiring work based on the theme of Recycle. Pictured here is a bird pincushion wristlet from Natalie of keeping me in stitches and a mini-recyling center pin cushion by Daria of glittergoods. [ via ] Link.
Melissa says, “A complete tutorial for turning a pair of old corduroys and a sweatshirt into a lined sleeve for a 12″ iBook or Powerbook. Great step-by-step instructions (with photos!) and a brilliant recycling idea.” Link.
Artist Sylvie Reno makes incredible sculptures of out cardboard, everyday objects, detailed replicas to a huge works like this bank safe… [via] – Link. Related: Art on MAKE – Link.
Here’s a full tutorial on how to make easy button snap cuffs that are 2 sided. We love the one with Ms. Pac-Man! Link.
MAKE Flick photo pool member Svofski built a steam engine without needing the usual expensive tools… – “I’ve been long fascinated with steam power. Using some spare time I’d been lucky to have, I started building my model. There are plenty of succesful examples of homebuilt steam models on the net, however all of them […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Aaronazz made a really interesting adaptor for his camera, the footage shot with it is beautiful (A DOF is a “depth of field” adaptor to get film-like results from a camera) – photos, link & video.
