Food and drawing … It’s a beautiful combination. Johanna Kindvall, of Sweden and New York City, keeps a recipe blog called Kokblog, where she includes a drawing with each recipe. I like how free form it is. Sometimes it’s a drawing of the finished dish, or one ingredient. But other times it might be a […]
Continue ReadingIn response to Collin’s DIY iPad stylus video, I-Wei created his own version that’s even simpler to build, using a metal-tipped mechanical lead holder as the conductive barrel (and the same type of conducting foam for the nib). I love that he was able to repurpose his favorite (all-metal) lead holder that he hadn’t used […]
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Fingertip input is great for most touchscreen usage like typing, web-browsing – all sorts of virtual button-pushing tasks. But for many people, drawing remains an activity best approached with a pen, pencil, brush, etc. With a bit of conductive foam and wire, it’s surprisingly easy to make your own conductive stylus, suitable for use with […]
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I’ve always been a big fan of artist Jim Woodring, and I’ve been keeping Moleskine Cahier sketchbooks for the past four years. So, I was completely jazzed to see these pages from one of Jim’s Cahiers. [via Boing Boing] The Salt-Blarsted Moleskine In the Maker Shed: Pick up The Maker’s Notebook ($19.99) for all your […]
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Too lazy to actually get out and take pictures? Then you might want to check out Photosketch, an interesting research project by researchers at Tsinghua University.
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In engineering, fabricating, and all-around making, it is very useful to know basic drawing styles. This will help you get your ideas out of your head and onto that napkin, or into your notebook so that you can bring them into the world. Architects, planners, designers, engineers, and others use drawing to help communicate their […]
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Windell has created a new free snowflake drawing program. He writes: A new application to draw your own snowflakes and save them in PDF format. Clean, cross-platform, open-source, and able to generate closed-polygon vector shape output. Oh yeah. …while there are some nice snowflake program out there, we didn’t actually come across any that were […]
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