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.

Knit a Nautie

Knit a Nautie

We’re ready to knit ourselves a Nautie. This free pattern up on Knitty states, “For almost 500 million years, nautiloids were the coolest kids around. They ate trilobites, had shells in a variety of fantastical shapes, and ranged from bite-size to 12 feet long. Every scary prehistoric beast should be made into a huggable toy, […]

Fabric Yo-Yos

Fabric Yo-Yos

Doc writes – “This man has done some amazing yo-yo projects in the past, including molding a leather yo-yo, and making yo-yos out of old yo-yo string, but in the linked project he took scraps of fabric and molded them into yo-yos. Damn, I’d love to have an argyle yo-yo.” – Link.

Tension Thing

Tension Thing

Judith Fegerl’s haie raising ceramic sphere – “20cm long human hair is embedded into the ceramic sphere. The object is charged by a high voltage generator (about 120-200kVolts) and the embedded hair is standing upwards due to the electromagnetic field. Rhythmical it slowly charges and discharges.” [via] – Link.

Nabaztag dashboard widget

Nabaztag dashboard widget

Gravity Girl writes – “Well, I first saw a nabaztag here, and had to have one. When it finally arrived, I cracked open the API and started playing with it. Here, after a weekend or so of work (because javascript isn’t my language of choice) is a dashboard widget for macintosh users to put in […]