design

AIDG: water solutions

AIDG: water solutions

AIDG is a NonGovernmental Organization (NGO) that helps provide low technology solutions to help address environmental and health needs to people living in communities without great access to the systems that many of us consider requirements. Here are a few of their water-based initiatives: Solar Hot Water: XelaTeco, with support from AIDG’s wonderful interns, recently […]

DIY Baby Book

Sara of Party Perfect is a former art director for Martha Stewart’s Babies and Kids magazines. In this weekend project, Sara made a baby book for her son Gram by taking photos of objects and spelling out the words with wooden letters. She then took all the photos into iPhoto and had her own book […]

Flashback: Crafty Fabric Masterpiece

CRAFT Volume 02 hit newsstands back in January of 2007, and one of the featured major projects was the above-pictured lovely “Crafty Masterpiece” by Tricia Mills Gray. And oh-so-crafty it is! Ironically, Trish never fancied herself a “crafter,” per se, but rather was just coming up with a solution to a problem. You see, Trish […]

Nature Crafts

Though CRAFT Volume 10 has just hit the stands, we’re already working hard on the next issue, which will focus on crafting with nature. I’ve been combing through magazines and blogs looking for inspiration and found the works of this self-taught German photographer Maditi, who contributed to Lines and Shapes. The photos inspire me to […]