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.

“Tesla Gets His Due: Building a Museum Through Crowd Funding” at World Maker Faire 2012

“Tesla Gets His Due: Building a Museum Through Crowd Funding” at World Maker Faire 2012

World Maker Faire 2012, “Building a Museum Through Crowd Funding”

Tesla Gets His Due – Jane Alcorn, Slava Rubin
Let’s Build a Tesla Museum: The story behind how $1.3+ million was raised to save Wardenclyffe, Nikola Tesla’s last remaining laboratory, and what we plan to do. Tesla gave us formative patents for radio, alternating current, robotics, and remote control.

Epic Knitted Illustrations

Epic Knitted Illustrations

Tracy Widdess of Brutal Knitting recently completed and exhibited these amazingly huge knitted illustrations that she produced with her Brother knitting machine. More: MAKE | Boar's Head Balaclava MAKE | Hacked Knitting Machine Depicts Cosby's Face (video) MAKE | Heavy Metal Quilt in San Francisco