Everyone who knows me knows I’m always looking for an excuse to talk about snowboarding, yes, even in June. Designers, artists, crafters, makers: here’s a competition after my own heart. Core 77 design mag and Nidecker snowboard company are challenging designers to create the next generation of snowboard graphics. Designers can submit designs of any […]
Designer Leigh-Anne Mullock created cross-stitched cover illustrations of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice as well as Mansfield Park. The illustrations feature imagery about their relationships the novel’s protagonists might have been inspired to stitch. Can all Austen books be like this please?
Drip.Dot.Swirl. by Von Glitschka Vonsterbooks.com Artist Von Glitschka has a new book out called Drip.Dot.Swirl. 94 incredible patterns for design and illustration. The illustrative pattern book features a large collection of patterns to inspire you in your design work. In fact, the book comes with a companion DVD of all the vector patterns so you […]
Nice story about the Open Source Embroidery exhibition and movement over on Wired.com: The movement brings together knitters, embroiderers and quilters who see parallels between the way they create their crafts and how open source software creators share their ideas. At the BildMuseet (art museum) at Umeå University in Sweden, an exhibition — also called […]
I love new takes on old classics, and this one definitely caught my eye at the Bazaar Bizarre at Maker Faire Bay Area a couple of weeks ago. Pictured above is Binary Winter’s Wise Robots design, a futuristic twist on the old Japanese proverb sanzaru. Binary Winter definitely has a style all their own. From […]
Gail at Can’t Stop Making Things has a tutorial on how to make an accordion wedding album / flip book. [ via Twitter @SisterDiane ] Our DIY Wedding theme starts in June! If you have any handmade wedding stories or crafts you’d like to share, contact us!
Take a look at this June 1, 2009 cover of The New Yorker and you’d never know that the artwork was created digitally on an iPhone. Artist Jorge Colombo created this piece with nothing but his fingers and the Brushes app on his iPhone. From The New Yorker site: “I got a phone in the […]
