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.
Tim Hunkin is a British inventor who recently made a solar powered sign that wiggles. His design for it was to run it by wind. His solar solution is a great read. The letters of the sign sway up and down as if they are bobbing about on the waves. There’s nothing very complicated about […]
Professor Yury Gitman teaches at Parson’s Design + Technology Program and has a great photo montage of various electronic toys he’s made and what’s inside. What’s fantastic is that he and his students also break apart electronic toys that are on the market now in the toy store, aptly called “toy autopsies”. Link.
Here’s a great tutorial on transferring a design from the computer onto a fabric pillow. In this case, it’s the cool drawings by Roy Lichtenstein. Link.
The Institute For Figuring is at the LA County Fair this month showing the hyperbolic crochet cactus garden and kelp under the sea. See all the amazing photos! Link.
By Arwen O’Reilly I stopped by the SF zine fest this weekend, and it was a blast! There were definitely a bunch of traditional zines (photocopied comix etc) but a lot of overlap in the Craft and Make space as well. I noticed a lot of zinesters brought along a crafty spouse to share a […]
Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls debuts chapter one of her Make-a-Long story. The story tells about the first day of 3rd grade for Olive and Archie. Following the story is a set of patterns for sale via PDF so you can make your own Olive and Archie dolls. Link.
Hurrah! The Fall issue of Knitty is out and there are lots of fun projects you can start on. These knit dishtowels look like a fun, quick project and you can welcome in the back to school days of “Study” and “Party”. Link.
