Painfully-cute papercraft
C’mon, tell me that doesn’t make you go “awwww” and wanna cavort with butterfly swarms and woodland creatures. Get the hi-res template here. [Via the MAKE Flickr pool]
Green
Repair is the new recycling
The Platform 21 manifesto: Platform 21
How-To: Refashion a Crochet Tunic into Shopping Tote
On Teen Vogue, fashion designer rogan gregory shows how-to recycle a crocheted tunic into an eco-chic shopping tote.
Trash Into Treasure contest
Here’s a really interesting-looking remake art contest announcement we received, with decent prizes, even. To show how discarded items can be redesigned into works of art as well as functional everyday items. Prizes First Place • $2,000 Cash Award • Future exhibition opportunity in a highly visible San Francisco venue or museum • Featured in […]
Checkin’ In: Green Girl Wendy Tremayne
Wendy Tremayne has graced the pages of CRAFT magazine since Volume 02 with her column Re: Fitted, exploring a different instance of creative reuse or green art in each installment. In Volume 03, she showed us how to use nature’s bounty to create natural boundaries, like this fence: And in Volume 06, she introduced us […]
MAKE @ GreenerGadgets!
Woo! We’re here all day @ Greener Gadgets! Stop by! The first ever Twittering power meter (Tweet-a-Watt) is working and on display too!
Easy, cheap homeless dome
Young maker Max Wallack designed this system for using plastic, wire, and packing peanuts to construct a shelter for homeless people and disaster victims, and he won a hefty design prize for it. Keep up the good work, Max! Via Geekologie. Update: Chris Connors covered this event in more detail, and even gave Max a […]
