I’m leaving for a 3 week trip bright and early tomorrow morning, and in preparation, today I gathered the supplies for a fun travel art kit. I went to Art and Soul, my local arts and crafts shop in Sebastopol (where our Craft Intern Lindsey works!). I found some great things there. All the kit […]
The scrub together table and lazy stool furniture pieces by designer Jason Taylor are pretty neat looking, but is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? Thats right, they are just a motor away from becoming giant bristlebots!
Flickr member davesbit built a globe by making a mold from a beach ball, and designed a map for it using the open mapping tools.
This giant Mona Lisa sculpture is made of motherboards. Reportedly conceived of and built by Asus engineers, it is on display at their headquarters in Taiwan.
Spotted in the online portfolio of design firm Martus & Silvio, of Grand Rapids. It’s a sculpture, technically, entitled “Early Tools,” but I’d have a hard time not using it at least once, Office Space style, on something that really made me angry.
The Cabaret Mechanical Movement book is packed with diagrams, information and useful tips on making your own automata. The book uses machines and automata from Cabaret Mechanical Theater to explain levers, shafts, cranks, cams, springs, linkages, ratchets, Drives and Gearing and even coin-op control, this is a great introduction for those inspired to go and make their own work.
If you are inspired by the use of everyday objects as art, then Scotch Brand wants to see your creativity come off the roll and into the art space. The Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest, sponsored by 3M, is inviting creative minds to submit photos of their unique tape sculpture — constructed from […]
