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.

Shopping cart art

Shopping cart art

Sparkyfaisca writes – “Artist creates ‘shopping trolley art’ to highlight RiverCare and spearhead recruitment campaign. Anglian Water has commissioned the world’s first river creature sculptures made entirelyfrom shopping trolleys. These amazing creations highlight some of the rubbish pulled from rivers in the region by RiverCare volunteers every week.The sculptures are being used to head an […]

Royer’s “One Man Band”

Royer’s “One Man Band”

Eric writes – “I invented and built the first Guitar Machine in Tucson in 1994 and since then have built three more versions, each time making it more playable and more portable (for playing on the street, in subways, etc…). The machine, often compared to a Rube Goldberg sculpture, consists of an acoustic guitar, a […]

HOW TO – Canon EOS remote

HOW TO – Canon EOS remote

Samer writes – “I made a remote for my new Canon Digital Rebel XT/350D. It’s a wired remote, cost about $10 in parts, and works pretty well. A friend did the soldering, cause my skills are lacking in that department. The plans are from Camera Hacker, and I ordered the electronics from All Electronics (cheaper […]

Hyperbolic Ring

Lindsay, who likes “sciences and making art”, added these pictures of her new creation, the hyperbolic ring to the CRAFT flickr pool. I asked Lindsay just what was her inspiration in creating this. Here’s what she said: “A couple of weeks ago I saw the crocheted coral reef featured on Design Sponge, so I spent […]