Amazing Laptop Steel Guitar Made from Skateboard Deck
A NY design and architecture duo turn a wooden skateboard deck into a laptop steel guitar
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Visions of a Victorian Future: Steampunk Makers Compete for $100,000 TV Prize
Whether you are already into steampunk, or just curious, you should check out the new TV show ‘Steampunk’d’ on GSNTV.
50 State Mottos Come to Life
We just got the numbers back, and so far there will be 526 Makers from 33 states in attendance at the upcoming 2011 Bay Area Maker Faire! In honor of this excellent display of diversity I wanted to share with you the super cool 50 and 50 project — 50 state mottos illustrated by 50 designers, one per state.
Be Cycle & Fashion: Custom Bikes for Charity
Introducing, Be Cycle, a customization project where twelve great names in fashion and design modify and decorate twelve Peugeot fixed gears for auction. The proceeds will benefit ACT Responsible, a non profit dedicated to promoting environmental and social causes. As a cult object and symbol of a responsible attitude, cycling made its comeback in many […]
Chair suggests recycling without actually doing so
That’s perhaps a bit unfair, as the PET from which designocrat Marcel Wanders’ prototype “Sparkle” chair is made may well come at least partly from recycled sources, for all I know. What I should say, really, is that the chair suggests direct recycling without actually doing so. It looks like it’s made from actual bottle parts, even though it isn’t. Which is a rather strange kind of eco-marketing, IMHO. Still, I like it as a purely aesthetic object. Is it because I’ve been programmed to desire bottled water, and thus respond favorably to an object that mimics its form even in a totally irrational way?
Ana Kraš Lamps
I am thoroughly in love with the simple forms and retro style of Serbian designer Ana Kraš and her beautiful lamps. Her handmade Bonbon series attires steel wire frames with colorful knit yarns, while the M Lamp remains naked, waiting for you to dress it up in a garment lampshade. (The M Lamp was inspired […]
Flooring from reclaimed leather belts
Shown above is actually an (absurdly overpriced) mat available from Branch, but designer Inghua Ting also makes permanent-install tiles based on the same idea. Clever idea, but will it really hold up over the years? Would be an easy remake. [via Dornob]
