design

How-To: Handwritten Recipe Tea Towels

How-To: Handwritten Recipe Tea Towels

Handwritten recipe cards are treasured objects that can be passed down through generations. Though they’re often beautiful and full of fond memories, they’re also fragile, so they’re generally hidden away for safekeeping, and brought out only on special cooking occasions. Or, at least they were until now. Get your recipes out of the box and […]

Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

These are are just a few of architect and artist Gregg Fleishman’s amazing “panel puzzle” designs. To left, a 2002 chair called Nebula II, and to right, a timeline showing stages in the evolution of his 1979 Lumbarest design, the first prototype of which dates to 1975. Besides furniture, Gregg also designs buildings and model vehicles using a similar body of techniques.

High-Fashion Dress in Gummy Bears

High-Fashion Dress in Gummy Bears

Have you ever looked at an Alexander McQueen gown and thought to yourself, “I wonder how many gummy bears it would take to recreate that?” Well apparently Hissa Igarashi and Sayuri Marakumi did, and it turns out that it took 50,000 gummy bears to create this ambitious dress for the debut issue of TWELV Magazine. […]