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.
The Smithsonian has a great collection of industrial drawings, doodles and sketches, like this Electro-mechanical fly catcher from Everett Huckel Bickley (1943) – “Drawing is a key element in the process of working out ideas. Drawing moves an idea from the “mind’s eye” to paper, the first step along the path from thought to three-dimensional […]
Artist Alexander Laner has a couple neat transportation-playing-art pieces, this motor was slowed down to play a record (33 rpm) mounted to the engine block, and this bicycle plays a record too! [via] – Link. Related: Papercone record player – Link. HOW TO – Copy a vinyl record – Link. Walk that vinyl – Link.
Boston area Makers, glass pumpkins this weekend @ MIT! – “”The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch came to MIT in 2001 after a residency in the Glass Lab by 14 members of the Bay Area Glass Institute. Visit us this Friday evening to preview the complete installation of 1,000 handblown glass pumpkins, created by artists from […]
Check out Zaphod Beeblebrox’s awesome homemade ultra-wide medium format camera (and the photos it takes!)… – “My home-made 6×9 super-wide camera. Rigid-body, 47mm f/5.6 Schneider MC Super-Angulon in a No. 0 shutter. With a Mamiya RB67 back…The helical focusing mount is made by Schneider – the distance scale is calibrated for the 47mm Super Angulons. […]
Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen made a modular light system for architecture, which reacts to the electromagnetic fields generated by touch. [via] – Link. Related: HOW TO – Make LED Throwies – Link. Make “light” graffiti with a disposable camera – Link. Embedded conductive, magnetic paint driven LEDs – Link. Maker made graffiti art – […]
CRAFT is now on sale (pre-order) at Amazon, so if that’s how you order books/magazines/etc you can get it there too… Should ship in a few weeks! CRAFT is the first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, Craft’s goal is to unite, inspire, […]
David writes in with the latest “Cool stuff being made”, he writes – “In this fifteen minute video it becomes obvious that saxophones are a work of art that combines experience, concentration, patience and manual dexterity. Some 500 parts go into the saxophone with 3000 separate operations. You’ll see how the parts get cut out […]
