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.

Creating A Magical Wizard’s Study With Nerdforge

Creating A Magical Wizard’s Study With Nerdforge

Martina and Hans at Nerdforge really keep upping the quality and scale of their work and they’ve really blown us away with this one. The concept sketch looks very incredible. If someone showed me that concept, I’d probably recommend they scale back their expectations. Nerdforge, however, delivers absolutely. The spiral staircase and fire place stand […]

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The Quest To Make Player Piano Rolls Using lasers

The Quest To Make Player Piano Rolls Using lasers

I’ve found player pianos fascinating since I was a kid. The first time I saw a player piano was at the Mall of the Bluffs in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a grand piano playing away with no one around. A player piano seems like something out of fiction, a dream imagined by someone in the early […]

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Read This Before 3D Scanning In A Museum

Read This Before 3D Scanning In A Museum

Scanning in museums is the perfect challenge for the photogrammetry hobbyist. Not all museums have in-house scanning programs, but it’s important to archive and share these objects with people all over the world. You can help make it happen. Photogrammetry is the process of converting hundreds of photos into a 3D model. The principles of 3D scanning […]

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Accessibility Hacks In Music: An Instrument For Henar

Accessibility Hacks In Music: An Instrument For Henar

Music is such an integral part of the human experience. A musical chord can evoke emotion faster than a paragraph. The desire to make music is overwhelming for many of us. Unfortunately, for some, there are obstacles in the way. This project aims to make a modular percussively driven midi interface. This design makes it […]

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Becky’s Mermaid Hair Is A Delightfully Illuminated Wearable

Becky’s Mermaid Hair Is A Delightfully Illuminated Wearable

Becky Stern is back with another interesting project that really goes outside the box. This LED wearable is meant to be worn in your hair and pulls inspiration from the mermaids that she saw as a child. It really is interesting how she managed to wrap and shape the wire in a way that this […]

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This Tiny Orrery Fits In Your Hand And Has A Web Interface

This Tiny Orrery Fits In Your Hand And Has A Web Interface

I’m a fan of orreries. These little models of our planetary bodies and orbits are truly fascinating and have captured my mind ever since I saw the big mechanical one featured in the movie The Dark Crystal. Give me any orrery and I’m happy. Big mechanical ones, tiny electronic ones, I don’t care. The Illusionmanager […]

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This Portable Loom Lets You Weave on The Go

This Portable Loom Lets You Weave on The Go

If there’s anything the modern day maker needs, it is the ability to pop out some weaving when they have a spare few minutes. Imagine you’re taking the subway for your hour long morning commute and you reach into your bag and pull out a fully functional weaving loom. Well, that’s totally possible. This 4 […]

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