David Haaz-Baroque is an amateur puppet maker and puppeteer from Oakland who performs with his creations under the name Shadow Circus Creature Theatre. His love of theatrical puppeteering has lead him on a unique artistic path, with showsย throughout the Bay Area and beyond, including several guest appearancesย on the television show Creepyย KOFYย Movie Time, and yearly stage […]
Thousands of kids are engineering their own toys and science projects โ and learning how they work โ thanks to Howtoons. Created by comic artist Nick Dragotta, toy designer Ingrid Dragotta,ย inventor-polymath Saul Griffith (a MacArthur Fellow and former Make: columnist), and self-described “big kid” Joost Bonsen, Howtoons are instructional comics that show how to make […]
Amaranthus palmeri, commonly known as pigweed, has long threatenedย cotton and soybean crops in the southern United States. More recently, it’s begun to develop a resistance to glyphosate, a common agricultural herbicideโposing a problem so grave that farmers in Texas lobbied the EPA last year to let them deploy the severe chemical propazine to fight the […]
Now in his 40th year of blacksmithing, San Francisco Bay Area blacksmith James Austin has spent a lifetime researching little-known or lost metalworking techniques, and developing his own. Unable to deny his love for metal fabrication, James apprenticed to a blacksmith in Germany in the early 1980s after receiving his degree and a brief […]
Arrister has created a custom furniture service that makes creating furniture to your exact dimensions as easy as ordering a pizza online.
With theย currentย Pitch Your Prototype challengeย submission period now open, let’s takeย a look at aย winning team from a previous round. Design that Matters is a nonprofitย founded by a team of MIT students to create tools to help meet basic needs in the developing world. In 2013, they’d developed a barebones phototherapy system they called Firefly, meant toย treat […]
“Blue-Yellow-Red” is a transmedia installation created by Nashville, Tennessee, interdisciplinary artist and transmedia performer, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger. The exhibit was created for the Frist Center as part its 2014 Kandinsky exhibit.
