Craft & Design

From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.

The Oona: Versatile Smartphone Stand

The Oona: Versatile Smartphone Stand

There are many, many phone mounts out there. This Kickstarter project called The Oona, seems more versatile than most. The designers set out to solve these use cases and more: • A GPS on the windshield of your car • A reference device on a white board or Refrigerator • The ability to mount your […]

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Noah Beasley’s innovative business approach to open source 3D jewelry

Noah Beasley’s innovative business approach to open source 3D jewelry

From the Shapeways blog: Congratulations to Improbablecog whose Kickstarter project has already reached 101% funding with 7 days still left to go. This is a win win win win situation where: The backers get a little something from Improbablecog, depending on their level of investment from a sticker to a custom designed piece of jewelry. […]

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Open Retail panel tomorrow at Eyebeam in NYC

Open Retail panel tomorrow at Eyebeam in NYC

Tomorrow some MAKE friends will participate in a panel discussion called Open Retail at Eyebeam’s Summer School series in New York City. The event will also be live streamed, for all you out-of-towners. Moderated by Dustyn Roberts, Eyebeam Disscussants: Bre Pettis, MakerBot; Giana González, Hacking Couture; Becky Stern, CRAFT and MAKE Magazines, Sternlab Using Re:Group […]

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Maker Business: Jenny Hart’s “Crafting a Business” column

Maker Business: Jenny Hart’s “Crafting a Business” column

Illustration (by Alicia Traveria) for “The Many Arms of Promotion,” by Jenny Hart, Venuszine. Our pal, Jenny Hart, of Austin’s Sublime Stitching, has a monthly column called “Crafting a Business with Jenny Hart” over on Venuszine. There’s a lot of information here that’s applicable to any type of crafting/maker business. It seems to me that […]

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