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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.
Made on Earth: Split-Flap Storytelling
In a nod to Eadweard Muybridge’s contribution to the early development of motion pictures, Wendy Marvel and Mark Arnon Rosen’s Mechanical Flip Books tell a very short story in just 24 frames. These hand-crafted boxes use a motor-driven spindle that flips through distressed pages of an animation in under four seconds. MAKE Volume 33 features […]
Made on Earth: Glittering Cloud
Inspired by light, communal art, and cloud-gazing, artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett created Cloud, an interactive sculpture composed of around 6,000 new and used light bulbs donated from local homes, businesses, museums, and eco stations. The sculpture stood for a single night in September as part of the Nuit Blanche late-night arts festival […]
Animated Amigurumi GIF
Anna Hrachovec of Mochimochi Land creates animated GIFs from her amigurumi projects, like this one called Free Unicorn Rides, which she chose as her best GIF of 2012.
Fusion of Fashion and Fire at The Crucible
Our friends at nonprofit arts education facility The Crucible are celebrating their 14th anniversary by hosting a sizzling show titled “Hot Couture: A Fusion of Fashion and Fire” next weekend, January 11 and 12, in Oakland, Calif. From their site: Ten artist and designer teams will create as many as forty haute couture concepts, illustrating […]
Make Something Daily in 2013
How many of you make resolutions for the new year? Do you ever make crafty resolutions?
Pom Pom Sweater
I Spy DIY has all kinds of fabulous DIYs to share, and this pom pom sweater is one of my favorites. It’s a great way to add some fun to an old sweater OR even save a favorite piece of knitwear. I have a sweater or two that have a bad pull or a tiny hole, and this would be a great way to hide the problem and create a solution!