We’ve covered Jon Sarriugarte and Krysten Mate’s Golden Mean snail art car on the Make: Blog and in MAKE magazine before. But now, they’ve posted an Instructable of the build details so you can create one yourself! How many takers do you think they’ll have? I wished we lived in a world in which this, […]
Jenny @ CRAFT found these little gems in the CRAFT Flickr pool: soap made to look like dentures! These wouldn’t be too hard to make yourself using a mouth-safe alginate to make a mold, then cast two different colors of soap into it! I’ll keep this one in mind for next Halloween.
It’s a sad time for those of you who appreciate the high-tech of yesteryear. QRS has decided to stop manufacturing player piano rolls. It’s actually amazing that they were still making them up until early 2009. Luckily for us there will always be plenty available on ebay. The halt in production comes 108 years after […]
Hanna von Goeler’s “My Money, My Currency” via Land-o-links… The artist’s statement- The interstitial quality of money as it travels from person to person is the point of departure for “My Money, My Currency”. THis ongoing project chronicles my struggle and relationship with money. It also explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic questions that surround […]
This “green” cellphone concept by Je-Hyun Kim takes the dilemma of getting a new phone every two years (which most of go through constantly) into account by integrating a biodegradeable body into the phone. Made to disintegrate when the two years are up, the phone will make you feel a bit better about wanting the […]
Designer Jaebeom Jeong built this lovely chair with stainless steel, and walnut, yet it looks like the wireframe 3D NURBS model that you’d see in your design software. It’s not the concept, it’s the final product. I would love to get an entire dining set done in this style, so that people think we’re just […]
From BB: Lisa Jones’s Symbiosis chairs start to get at the potential of cheap and ubiquitous laser-cutters — the backs are and seats cut with highly intricate designs inspired by human anatomy. Shown here, the Venus Chair from 2006.
