Matryoshka knives
I am normally immune to high-design tomfoolery, but if I lived in a universe where I could justify spending hundreds of dollars on a set of nesting kitchen knives, I would snap these up in a second.
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DesignScene iPad App: Inspiration Explorer
If you long for design inspiration and have an iPad, pick up this new app called DesignScene. (Watch the video trailer on the homepage.) It’s a real-time inspiration app that is visual! That’s right, now you can surf visually through curated sources that cover everything from art to architecture, illustration to fashion, and photography to […]
Ghostbusters Wedding Cake
Photo by Charm City Cakes Star Wars‘ themed wedding cakes are practically a dime a dozen, but how often does one see a Ghostbusters wedding cake, complete with the Stay Puft Marshmallow man and light-up proton streams shooting out of the newlyweds’ proton packs? Charm City Cakes of Baltimore created the masterpiece. Wow! Photo by […]
Foot-operated elevator button
I’ve wanted a door “knob” that worked like this for years. Would’ve been especially nice in some of the large chemistry and biochemistry labs I’ve worked in, where the “gloves on or off” protocols for opening doors between rooms were not always clearly established and/or followed. [via Gizmodo]
FerroFelt Magnetic Wearables
Noah Waxman, a student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, has been playing with felt and magnets and has developed some playful garments he calls Fe Wearables. [via Cool Hunting]
Gingerbread Fallingwater
Melodie and Brenton from Garden Melodies created this incredible gingerbread recreation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Fun facts: It took over 12 hours to design It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that’s […]
Best of CRAFT 2010: Photography and Design
We love covering design and photography projects so here’s a roundup of our best Design and Photography projects from this year. Pictured above is Andrew Lewis’ tutorial for printing on fabric with an inkjet printer. How-To: Create Great Kids Photos and How-To: Create Beautiful Baby Photos by Susannah Bothe How-To: Build an Amateur Photography Rig […]