Tealight Decoration from Paper Towel Cardboard Tubes
Patricia of A Little Hut fought her insomnia by continuing on her amazing and beautiful recycled paper projects. This time she makes a tealight decoration from old paper towel cardboard tubes.
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Jennifer Collier Paper Clothing Art
UK artist Jennifer Collier makes beautiful paper clothing and shoes and was featured in the Curio section of CRAFT:04. Take a look at her gallery for some really inspiring works of art. Pictured above is the Stamp Dress made with used stamps and machine emboridery, below is the Pattern Packet Shoes made from sewing pattern […]
HOW TO – Make an Origami Mobile
Derek and Lauren on design*sponge show you how to make this nifty origami mobile!
Plantable Cards
Etsy seller Recycled Ideas makes these plantable cards, handmade paper cards with flower seeds embedded in them. Just plant the card and flowers will later bloom in it’s place. A perfect green gift for Mother’s Day! [ via CasaSugar ]
Fly without booking a flight
Yves Rossy, a former Swiss military pilot, spent 5 years developing these foldable carbon fibre wings that each hold two kerosene-powered jet engines allowing him to fly, literally, like a bird, horizontally. Pretty amazing project that looks like it came right out of the next James Bond film. Yves Rossy – Photo Gallery of the […]
Stanford Cool Product Expo
Tom writes – The Cool Product Expo (CPX) is a showcase of products at the intersection of manufacturing, design, and “cool.” This year’s CPX will feature innovative cleantech products from BMW’s hydrogen 7, a solar car, the Tesla Roadster (all-electric, 0-60 in 4 seconds), and Wrightspeed X1 (all-electric, 0-60 in 3 seconds) to portable fuel […]
Sierpinski Cookies
The Evil Mad Scientists are at it again, fractals, that is: These cookies, made from contrasting colors of butter cookie dough, are a tasty realization of the Sierpinski carpet, producing lovely, edible fractals. As with our earlier project involving clay, you can make these by using a simple iterative algorithmic process of stretching out the […]