Handmade Gift Idea: Diamond Napkins
Tis the season of making gifts for your loved ones and these DIY diamond napkins are a great idea from Whimseybox.
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.
Inkimals: 2D Hand Drawings Become 3D Personal 3D Prints
AMINIMAL Studio is a Brooklyn-based design company focused the use of emerging technologies as an approach to designing 21st century products. They recently wrote MAKE about their Kickstarter for the Inkimals project, a new 3D printing platform and web based app that enables the creation 3D toy designs from either 2D (hand-colored and scanned or computer modified) templates. The design is then 3D printed in one of several figure designs.
Watch It: HGTV Handmade
The creative folks at HGTV have just made a ton of crafty folks very, very happy. How? They’re launching an awesome new YouTube channel just for the DIY set: HGTV Handmade!
How-To: Bottle Brush Trees in Custom Colors
Stylish bottle brush trees in modern colors have been popping up everywhere this season. Bummed because your local craft store only carries more traditional supplies? Don’t worry–DIY it!
How-To: Felt Mercat Brooch
If you’ve been looking for a method of displaying your mercat enthusiasm on your person, then look no further because Lauren of LD-P has devised a technique for doing just that.
Smart Gifts: Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, & Math Toys for Kids
What are maker-loving parents giving this season to turn their kids into the makers of tomorrow? In this list we focus on gifts at the intersection of Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, & Math (STEAM).
Build a Camera with Bigshot
An interview with Shree Nayar, creator of the Big Shot camera kit, at World Maker Faire New York.