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.

Teensy Ninja Pins

Teensy Ninja Pins

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Liquid Paper’s Mod Dots Shop has a new take on the ever trusty straight pins. She’s created a line of teensy lovable objects atop pins like birds, kitties and my favorite “Teensy Ninjas” shown here. I imagine they can safely protect your crafting area from harm. From the site, “Ninjas are handcrafted from polymer clay. Each ninja stands about 1/2″ high (not including pin). Set contains 1 ninja armed with shuriken (throwing star), 1 ninja armed with nunchucks and 1 ninja armed with a sword and a Mod Dots pincushion.Link and Flickr.

Tao of motion control…

Tao of motion control…

Bssis1 200I met Bruce from “The Tao of motion control” he makes incredible X,Y machines “The purpose of this site is to suggest that motion control is also an emerging medium for artistic expression. Despite the universal use of motion control in industrial settings, its use by artists has been hampered by the enormous cost of commercial equipment. Because access to the tools of this medium is crucial for its exploration, one strategy open to motivated artists is building their own equipment from scrapped components flowing out of industrial sources.” This one moves a metal ball over sand to make a zen garden. Link.

Newton MP3 player…

Newton MP3 player…

91374328 5Eb0A1312B MMAKE Flickr photo pool member MH2 made an Apple Newton MP3 player, he writes “I download carefully prepared mp3 files to my outdated Newton MP 2100… I set up the 2100 to shut down after 10 minutes. Ten minutes each night, then I sleep. Of course the 2100 is no iPod. Music can’t be cut up as conveniently in two minute pieces as large audio book files, but above 900 KB (which is approx. 3,5 min @ 22050 Hz mono 32 kbps) transfer to the Newton gets complicated. Of course the internal speaker has only poor audio quality compared to an iPod. Or any other decent mp3 player, that is.” Link.

Cross Stitch Pac-Man

Cross Stitch Pac-Man

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Here some really great cross stitch action of a Pac-Man game. If you are looking to do the same thing, just get yourself some blank cross stitch canvas, plastic canvas or fabric canvas from Joann.com. Then print out some of the cross stitch patterns from here (note files are large/high-res). You can also just find an image you like on the web and send it through Dark Lilac’s Cross Stitch Chart Generator to generate a pattern for yourself. Link.

HOW TO – Stretch a canvas…

HOW TO – Stretch a canvas…

Stretching 011 ThumbQuick and easy how to on Apartment therapy “Stretching a canvas is easy. You take four planks of wood, make a rectangle and pull the canvas over it. (Or pay framing stores a lot of money to do it for you…). Before you get frustrated starting from scratch get ready made heavy duty stretcher bars (best & cheapest:Utrecht Art Supplies). Their ends fit together so precisely that you don´t need glue or nails. Asembly time for the perfect rectangle: 60 seconds.” [via] Link.