alt_quilts at the American Folk Art Museum
A few weeks ago, I visited the alt_quilts exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, and I was totally blown away by what I saw.
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.
Blown Glass Terrarium Sculptures
These amazing terrariums made from massive pieces of blown glass by landscape designer Paula Hayes really illustrate how a little bit of the outdoors can brighten up the indoors, especially in the approaching winter months.
New Series Debuts: How Does Nature Make It?
How Does Nature Make It? is a collaboration between MAKE and the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute, a non-profit dedicated to equipping innovators with the tools to solve sustainability challenges using nature’s designs and core principles. The most popular of those tools is AskNature, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of nature’s solutions to human design challenges. By understanding how these adaptations work, makers can mimic ideas that have thrived in balance with Earth’s complex systems. This series explores these adaptations.
How-To: Reclaimed Wood Card Table Makeover
Have an ugly card table? You’re going to love the look of this gorgeous reclaimed wood card table makeover!
From DeArmond to Photoresistors, the Optical Tremolo Box Looks and Sounds Great!
The Optical Tremolo Box was inspired by Charles Platt’s “Stomp Box Basics” article (MAKE Volume 15, page 82), which theorized using a light sensor to read patterns on a rotating disk to create a tremolo effect. Taking the project from theory to reality, MAKE Technical Editor Sean Ragan used a cadmium sulfide photoresistor to provide us with our light sensor. Watch the video to see – and hear! – this project in action.
Monogram of branches
Hello Little House shows us how to put a rustic spin on the monogram game by creating one with some of the many sticks her sons collect, and included it in their room make-over.
LitteBits and Korg Release Synthesizer Kit
Combine snap-together electronics gurus littleBits with Korg’s synthesizer mastery and you get an impressive kit for creating modular synths.