If you long for design inspiration and have an iPad, pick up this new app called DesignScene. (Watch the video trailer on the homepage.) It’s a real-time inspiration app that is visual! That’s right, now you can surf visually through curated sources that cover everything from art to architecture, illustration to fashion, and photography to […]
Photo by Charm City Cakes Star Wars‘ themed wedding cakes are practically a dime a dozen, but how often does one see a Ghostbusters wedding cake, complete with the Stay Puft Marshmallow man and light-up proton streams shooting out of the newlyweds’ proton packs? Charm City Cakes of Baltimore created the masterpiece. Wow! Photo by […]
I’ve wanted a door “knob” that worked like this for years. Would’ve been especially nice in some of the large chemistry and biochemistry labs I’ve worked in, where the “gloves on or off” protocols for opening doors between rooms were not always clearly established and/or followed. [via Gizmodo]
Noah Waxman, a student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, has been playing with felt and magnets and has developed some playful garments he calls Fe Wearables. [via Cool Hunting]
Melodie and Brenton from Garden Melodies created this incredible gingerbread recreation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Fun facts: It took over 12 hours to design It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that’s […]
We love covering design and photography projects so here’s a roundup of our best Design and Photography projects from this year. Pictured above is Andrew Lewis’ tutorial for printing on fabric with an inkjet printer. How-To: Create Great Kids Photos and How-To: Create Beautiful Baby Photos by Susannah Bothe How-To: Build an Amateur Photography Rig […]
The original idea came from the work of several of my students in the Fashioning Tech class. Sam and Brooke were cutting images that they found online, and saw that the heavy black lines made image contours, which cut as a continuous line. What they saw as a horrible mistake, I thought looked really neat, and suggested they carefully glue the image outline to a backing sheet. They were hand cutting the background sheet, but it looks much more polished if they use the laser to cut the outline shape on the laser
