Dale posted a tweet about the Chris Ware cover of the latest New Yorker magazine. I think the cover is a brilliant commentary on our mobile-connected, interrupt-driven, Twitter and FB-obsessed lives, and maybe on some of the “phoned-in” parenting that goes on. It instantly reminded me of an incident at Maker Faire Bay Are three […]
Can’t decide on a typeface for your next project? Why not choose them all, with Michael Flückiger and Nicolas Kunz’s Laika, the dynamic font generator.
Scott Jarvie made this Clutch Chair using more than 10,000 drinking straws. This one is apparently an art piece rather than an actual chair, but it seems like it should be possible to make a functional one using this method as well.
Book publishers use banner ads on flies in Germany… via Wired. Jung von Matt/Neckar lässt für Eichborn, den Verlag mit der Fliege, 200 mit Bannern bestückte Fliegen auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse starten. To promote their exhibition stand at the Franfurt Book Fair, Eichborn the publisher with the fly prepared 200 flies with an ultra light […]
Judy Castro and Michael Shiloh run a series of classes called “Teach Me to Make” on a variety of subject such as electronics and arduino, mechanical sculpture, and electromechanics.
Dutch designer Jelte Van Abbema recently won the €10,000 Rado Prize for promising young designers.
Here’s a channel NY1 report on the recent Pop!Tech conference in Camden, ME. The piece profiles three MAKE contributors, Reuben Margolin, Zach Debord, and Mike Gould. Reuben has shown his work and spoken at Maker Faire, Zach Debord’s BEAMbots have been featured in MAKE (and on the cover of The Best of MAKE), and Mike […]
