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.

Space Station in a Shed

Space Station in a Shed

Excerpt from the article: To the casual passerby, Christopher Jacobs’ backyard shed appears nondescript. But beneath the worn white exterior exist hundreds of switches, blinking lights, computer screens running animations, and a green-screen viewport — all part of a space station movie set Jacobs built himself.

Experiments in  3D Printed Fashion

Experiments in 3D Printed Fashion

Excerpt from the article: Fashion and technology are the perfect pairing. Fashion’s constant need for newness drives designers to continually seek novel materials and innovative ways of making garments. Emerging technologies provide designers with fresh inspiration and opportunities to innovate and create radically new garments that don’t already exist.

Computers in the Mist

Computers in the Mist

Carl Helmers was designing spaceships in kindergarten. He “lucked out” by learning computers in high school in New Jersey, where he eventually got a summer job programming at Bell Labs. Then, as a NASA contractor in Houston, he installed compilers and even wrote a landing program for the Apollo Lunar Module. Computers were big, expensive […]

Hot Bots

Hot Bots

Excerpt of the article: British artist Giles Walker has been making provocative art robots and kinetic sculptures for more than 20 years. His Peepshow installation features two metal and plastic life-sized pole dancers with CCTV heads who gyrate as the bullhorn-headed DJ drops beats between them.

Twist of Fate

Twist of Fate

Excerpt from the article: Los Angeles-based artist Mike Ross is fascinated with power in all its forms, be it physical, political, economic, or the power of humanity to make its own world. In 2007, Ross’ vision manifested in the awe-inspiring form of a 50′-tall, 25-ton sculpture constructed from two discarded tanker trucks, one precariously perched […]