Geeky Aluminum Can Sculptures
Japanese artist-maker Makaon turns trash into treasure, making papercraft-like sculptures out of discarded aluminum cans.
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Embroidered Records
Artist Rose Eken created this beautiful series of embroidered records, called “Singles,” then framed them and hung them on the wall like gold records.
Artist 3D-Prints Skeletal Self-Portrait
Dutch sculptor Caspar Berger is known for the series of self-portraits he’s made over the past few years. Most recently, for a piece aptly titled Skeleton, he’s used data from a CT scan of his body to 3D-print life-sized replicas of his bones in translucent resin, which he then used to make silicone molds to […]
Biomimicry Through Papercraft
Artist Julie Dodd has decided plunge headlong into the medium of paper. Almost all her work uses it, and often to express issues of environmentalism, with the topic of reuse folded into the pieces themselves as she works with discarded materials.
Tiny Fairy Doors
Sometimes you need a little magic in your life, and that is what Kate Benbow created when she made this tiny fairy doors appear in her home. I saw this on Design Sponge and was delighted to see a non-functional project that was made for the sole purpose of creating a splendid moment of joy for someone. How lovely and fun.
Bzzz! An Arduino-Controlled Electrical Sound Sculpture
Cécile Babiole’s Bzzz! The Sound of Electricity sculpture seems to embody the promise of the Arduino as being a microcontroller that artists can use to develop an idea without a lot of technical gruntwork: The sculpture has a radial form, arranged around a sound wave generator at the centre of a room surrounded by a […]
Make: Believe HOA: Puppet Making: From Clay to Play
Lex Rudd will be joining us tomorrow for our Make: Believe HOA on Google+, 1 PM PST. She’ll show us various stages of her puppet design and fabrication techniques, including early sculpture, pattern making, molding, casting, prototypes, raw materials, and finished products. Lex will talk about her methods, how she learned her craft, and how […]