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.
Canadian graphic designer and animator Ben Barrett-Forrest has created an enchanting and informative paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. In total, Ben used 291 paper letters, took 2,454 photographs, and put in 140 hours of work to create this 5-minute history that takes us from blackletter to pixel type and custom scripts.
Artist Giles Oldershaw makes iconic portraits of celebrities from nothing but pieces of cardboard by simply carving into them and peeling the layers away.
Who need Disneyland when you’ve got the Orange County Mini Maker Faire in nearby Irvine, Calif? With more than 70 maker exhibits on tap, about 3,000 attendees expected to come, and big support from event co-sponsor Edtric, it should be a big day. Here’ a preview of some of the makers who will showing their stuff.
Minted Strawberry made a sweet geometric tutorial that you can use to make a hair pin OR a rad necklace. Two-in-one!
Need a fun, flattering foundation garment to go under sheer tops? Check out this DIY cage bra!
Bowling, garden gnomes, recycling – what’s not to love about this project? I have seen various incarnations of this lawn bowling game, but since it is summer, I thought it best to go with a gnome theme.
Connecting the dots between the last two installments of Math Mondays, the team got to see mathematical string art taken to a new level at this year’s Bridges conference. Here are three recent works by David Press, which lift string art off of the (card)board and into the third dimension, using families of endpoints in different planes to create ruled surfaces embedded in three dimensions.
