Maker Spotlight: The Whimsical Creations of Maria Venegas
Maria Venegas makes adorable 3D-printed animal nightlights that look hand-carved.
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It Took Two Years For This Man To Sculpt This Massive Fire Breathing Steel Dragon
Game of Thrones was an immensely popular TV show for much of its running. There were very few people who didn’t gaze at the gorgeous dragons on screen in the later seasons and wonder what it would be like to stand in front of one of these beasts; to feel the blistering heat as they […]
Uri Tuchman’s Hand Automata Is A Work Of Art
I really enjoy Uri Tuchman’s sense of humor that he mixes with fine manual making skills. Take for example, his latest build, this automata of a pair of hands tapping their fingers. There is fine skill and craftsmanship on display here with the gorgeous brass cams and levers. The wooden hand-sculpted hands look like they […]
Surreal Sculptures Branching Through The Natural and Modern World
Henrique Oliveira never knows exactly how his sprawling sculptures will take shape, which is, perhaps, a contributing factor to their organic look and feel, bridging the natural world with the modern, resulting in the surreal exhibitions and installations he’s been creating around the world for over a decade. “It was not something planned, like had an […]
A Maker Family in Lockdown Helps to Engineer a Memorial Covid Artwork
In A Crack in the Hourglass, a media artwork by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, people are invited to submit a photograph and story of a loved one lost during Covid. Over a period of about 40 minutes a modified robotic plotter draws the image of the loved one using hourglass sand. Once the drawing is complete […]
Designing Intelligent and Adaptable “Plants”
This fantastic project of Nicole Hone may be a few years old but is still downright mesmerizing and inspirational with the possibilities. Hydrophytes are futuristic aquatic plants created with multi-material 3D printing with multipurpose potential! It is hard to believe that they are A not alive or B the video did not use CGI but […]
The Star Wars Cantina Bar Creature Project: ‘Hammerhead’
Follow along as Robert creates an iconic sculpture from Star Wars
