Peter Sid made this beautiful chandelier out of chemotherapy bottles and entered it in Apartment Therapy’s design contest. He got the idea to transform the chemo bottles from the Bottles of Hope project, which cleans, decorates, and gives out the bottles to cancer patients. What’s even more, he used CRAFT friends Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories‘ […]
FabSugar reports on a recent design challenge in NYC. Yesterday’s News, a brand of cat litter made from recycled paper had few fashion designers create dresses made from recycled newspaper. Brooklyn based eco-fashion designer Samantha Pleet made a cute pleated strapless dress (pictured left) and you can watch the video below to see her make […]
Following in line with today’s 3D Thread Illustrations project, Michele Made Me shows you how to roll up strips of denim to create a tree which she then used as the design in her denim pencil cases. [via jean repair]
By Wendy Tremayne My friend, textile artist and blogger Heather Cameron of True Stitches, says of crafter Gretchen Elsner, “Writing about Gretchen is like trying to remember a dream that keeps slipping away the more you try to capture it.” The dream that I am having of Gretchen Elsner is one populated by archetypal creatures. […]
Scott over at What I Made shares his latest project for turning a tin can into a cool tea light holder. His hand-drawn illustrations of the step-by-step tutorial are spectacular and really worth checking out. Enjoy!
Instructables user whamodyne made a self-watering planter from a rag and a 2-liter plastic bottle: I have a black thumb due to my forgetfulness on the watering of plants. By the time I remember and rush over with the wattle bottle, the plants have croaked and moved onto the next plane of existence. I was […]
I’m in awe of this art installation in a library’s garden that’s comprised of more than 40,000 discarded books. Even more fascinating: the books are being used as a growing medium for mushrooms. Designed by a Berlin-based team of Canadian artist-designer Rodney LaTourelle and landscape architect Thilo Folkerts, the Jardin de la Conaissance (Garden of […]
