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.

Art in a petri dish

Art in a petri dish

Stunning photos of “Billions and billions of bacterial landscape architects” – spotted on kottke.org and pruned – here’s a round up of all the ones I could find. Gardens-in-a-Petri – Link. More More Gardens-in-a-Petri – Link. Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of the Tel-Aviv University – Link. Magnetic Liquid Weirdness (metal, not bio) – Link. Symmetric Science […]

Knitted Boombox Bag

Knitted Boombox Bag

Shannon Okey of knitgrrl.com says, “This is the knitted Boombox Bag from my first book, Knitgrrl. It’s got a set of cheap Radio Shack speakers built into the interior that can plug into an iPod or other portable music device in the front pocket. The next version of this pattern will have the speakers actually […]

HOW TO – Kite aerial “panography”

HOW TO – Kite aerial “panography”

Andrew writes – “I noticed a bunch more recent posts on KAP (Kite Aerial Photography). I don’t know if you have discovered Scott Haefner’s site, yet. He has combined KAP with panoramic photography to get some impressive images.” Kite Aerial Photography by Scott Haefner – Link & how they’re made. Noted panographer and maker Philo […]

Telescopes ‘worthless’ by 2050

Telescopes ‘worthless’ by 2050

Get outside and see some stars folks – “Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says. Aircraft condensation trails – known as contrails – can dissipate, becoming indistinguishable from other clouds. If trends in cheap air travel continue, says Professor Gerry Gilmore, […]