FabSugar reports on a recent design challenge in NYC. Yesterday’s News, a brand of cat litter made from recycled paper had few fashion designers create dresses made from recycled newspaper. Brooklyn based eco-fashion designer Samantha Pleet made a cute pleated strapless dress (pictured left) and you can watch the video below to see her make […]
Following in line with today’s 3D Thread Illustrations project, Michele Made Me shows you how to roll up strips of denim to create a tree which she then used as the design in her denim pencil cases. [via jean repair]
By Wendy Tremayne My friend, textile artist and blogger Heather Cameron of True Stitches, says of crafter Gretchen Elsner, “Writing about Gretchen is like trying to remember a dream that keeps slipping away the more you try to capture it.” The dream that I am having of Gretchen Elsner is one populated by archetypal creatures. […]
Scott over at What I Made shares his latest project for turning a tin can into a cool tea light holder. His hand-drawn illustrations of the step-by-step tutorial are spectacular and really worth checking out. Enjoy!
Instructables user whamodyne made a self-watering planter from a rag and a 2-liter plastic bottle: I have a black thumb due to my forgetfulness on the watering of plants. By the time I remember and rush over with the wattle bottle, the plants have croaked and moved onto the next plane of existence. I was […]
I’m in awe of this art installation in a library’s garden that’s comprised of more than 40,000 discarded books. Even more fascinating: the books are being used as a growing medium for mushrooms. Designed by a Berlin-based team of Canadian artist-designer Rodney LaTourelle and landscape architect Thilo Folkerts, the Jardin de la Conaissance (Garden of […]
The chain look is in for fall and I’m loving this recycled fashion option to make a soda tab belt by Tiffany of RePlayGround. This project is featured in her upcoming book that’s coming out in April 2011!
