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.
Michelle @ Retroblast has an interview with 8-Bit artist Chris Olian – “Mastermind of pixilated pop art, Chris Olan AKA 8-Bit Artist, has made a name for himself in the realm of video game-inspired art. COIN-OP TV and RetroBlast take an inside look at Olan’s talents and inspiration.” – Link. More: 8-Bit artist Chris Olian […]
Bruce Gardner has a galley of hikaru dorodango a Japanese schoolyard pastime where kids polish clumps of mud to create these amazing little nuggets of shiny – [via] – Link & how-to
OK Crafters, you’re in for a treat, we’re testing out something really new – delivering patterns over iTunes! That’s right, you can click this link and (hopefully) the CRAFT Magazine channel will be added to iTunes and soon, each week you’ll get audio, videos and PDF sewing patterns you can print out. Our sibling MAKE […]
OK Crafters & Makers, you’re in for a treat, we’re testing out something really new – delivering patterns over iTunes for our new zine CRAFT! That’s right, you can click this link and (hopefully) the CRAFT Magazine channel will be added to iTunes and soon, each week you’ll get audio, videos and PDF sewing patterns […]
The San Jose Museum of Art has a collection of globes with all sorts of info-graphics on them, here’s one with life expectancy – “Exploring how maps mediate between the known and the unknown, Ingo Gunther’s WorldProcessor presents more than 25 illuminated, modified globes to engage audiences into journeying among alternative worldviews, from “refugee currents” […]
This project looks like a lot of fun to weave different color ribbons into a bag. Link.
One of my favorite “Maker-made” films of all time is Claude Lelouch’s “Rendezvous” – “On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. No […]
