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.

Print Gocco Tutorial

Print Gocco Tutorial

Print Gocco comes from Japan and is one of the best alternatives to silkscreening. You can easily print on paper or fabric with professional quality with this little machine. Here The Small Object shares their recent Gocco purchase with a tutorial on how to get started. We love the final result! Link. Related: Save Gocco […]

Carriage of War

Carriage of War

Pillowcase writes “I made a baby carriage for warwalking, because I had no car… It has (had) a boombox and car battery to power it all, so that it would announce the found nodes with text-to-speech (and play some of the fight club soundtrack)…” – Link & photos.

Hand-Drawn Soundtracks

Hand-Drawn Soundtracks

Check out these handmade “soundtracks” from 1936 – I’d like to know if there are any still around and what they sound like… “”Sketches” Sound; Files It For “Talkies” – SYNTHETIC musical notes that can be filed away in a card index have been developed by a group of Soviet musicians and scientists. The hand-sketched […]

LED POV helmet

LED POV helmet

MAKE Flickr photo pool member Elemenoh writes “This is my “Light Emitting Diode Persistence of Vision Helmet”. I made it for my Gizmology class this semester. On the end of the black arm is a vertical row of 8 red LEDs that are attached to a chip which controls the rate at which they flash. […]

SWITCH Interviews JF Magic

SWITCH Interviews JF Magic

MAKE friend Alison of SWITCH interviews JF Magic founder Lee Wainwright about light up clothing and textiles. In Alison’s interview “they discover shoes that light up with your every step, skirts that make kissy faces, purses that light up when your cell phone rings and much more.” We heart SWITCH and now the SWITCH site […]