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.

Crochet Grocery Bag Tote

Crochet Grocery Bag Tote

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Here’s a fun way to recycle those pesky plastic grocery bags that are piling up in your kitchen. Instead of recycling them back at the supermarket, make yourself a cool tote bag. Here’s the full step-by-step on how to take regular o’ plastic grocery bags, cut them up, and crochet them into a tote! Find bags with a variety of colors for cool stripe patterns. [via] Link.

Cool Origami Paper

Cool Origami Paper

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The art of origami is something so beautiful and yet so fragile. Most of the time it’s hard to find hip or interesting patterns on traditional origami paper. Never again! With the Printable Origami Papers site you’ll be able to download and print out on your computer some of the freshest patterns around. You can also check out the flickr gallery to see what others are making or sign up for the origami forum. Link.

Super-simple DIY synth plans

Super-simple DIY synth plans

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“From Ray Wilson, inventor of the Soundlab Mini Synth comes the Wacky Electronic Noise Maker Thingy. It’s a much simpler circuit, which produces surprisingly cool pulsing, bleeping type noises. You can hear sound clips here. It’s made with a handful of components, a few pots and switches and a 9v battery. There’s a very clear schematic, a PCB design and a stripboard layout.” Thanks Tom! Link.

Food embossing…

Food embossing…

Wpizza200I’m not sure why I like this, perhaps it’s because I’d like to put text/code on edible things at all the conferences – then eat them. This company makes food embossing gear, I really like the pizza roller, you roll it along and it makes text in the dough, then you bake it. You could automate it, and put RSS feeds or stock prices on them, but that might be going too far. Link.