How-To: Convert Spool to Button Stamp
Maximum Rabbit Designs shares the clever way she transformed a used spool into a snazzy button stamp, using craft foam and a small hole punch. Adorable!
Month: February 2010
Math Monday: Balloon polyhedra
Balloon polyhedra By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics For making mathematical models of polyhedra, a convenient and inexpensive material is the long clown balloon. This dodecahedron (made of ten balloons) and icosahedron (made of six balloons) are two examples from a study of Mathematical Balloon Twisting by Erik Demaine, Marty Demaine, and Vi […]
CRAFT weekly recap
This week on CRAFT we saw: Articulate Matter – A Sculptural Web Comic The Making of David Ellison’s Tables Photoshop Cooking DIY Play Laptop
“Artist in residence from outer space” dies
Images from the McCall Studios website. Sadly, famed science fiction and space exploration artist, Robert McCall, has died. He passed away on Friday, of a heart attack, in his Scottsdale, Arizona home. Anybody who’s paid even passing attention to sci-fi, the space program, or postage stamp art has seen Bob McCall’s work. He painted the […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Plushie Lichen Brooches by ELINtm DIY Scratch Off Cards by Giant Eye, DIY Chain Sleeve Top by A Merry Mishap blog, and Embroidery on Tulle by even-star.
Free shipping in the Maker Shed ends today
Today is the last day to take advantage of free shipping in the Maker Shed. So what’s the catch? The offer is available on orders of $125 or more, shipped to an address in the continental US.
Remixed Ikea bar
Portuguese design students Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto built a temporary bar out of Ikea bins for the annual Queima das Fitas celebrating the end of exams: Year after year, the students of Oporto School of Architecture are invited to think on a temporary bar to represent their institution with the expected dignity, as an […]