Month: September 2007

Japanese Craft good-ness

Belinda writes: Leslie a Canadian married to a Japanese living in Japan. Has just opened an Etsy shop selling fabric, books and trim etc. What I love about Leslie’s shop is that she only stocks what she loves. As a result the fabric she is listing has often never been seen before. She seems to […]

Ikea hacking

Ikea hacking

“Ikea hacking” seems to be an emergent meme these days. Etsy’s The Storque did a piece on it recently, linking to last week’s New York Times article. And it came up at last night’s Dorkbot DC AfterDork, in this case, the idea of using Ikea fixtures and enclosures as handy and handsome electronics project boxes. […]

Comparative Morphologies

Comparative Morphologies

Comparative Morphologies by artist Stephanie Syjuco, she writes – What looks like vintage natural history studies turns out to be, on closer inspection, images of computer and technological cords and peripherals, each slightly manipulated to take on organic characteristics–a fused or sprouting growth from a stem, a viral infection, or a radial symmetry. I used […]