Category: Craft
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Adorable Tiny Animals Embroidered By Chloe Giordano
Chloe Giordano, a talented illustrator and embroiderer in Oxford, England, creates tiny embroidered animals that are full of texture and life. What’s striking about her embroidered pieces, besides her painstaking attention to these animals’ rich colors, is their size. Most of these animals are not much larger than a thimble, which puts the amazing detail…
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Spectacular Industrial Flying Machines Made From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag
If you want to create detailed and imaginative flying machine sculptures that look like they’re about to take flight, cardboard is hardly the material to use. Unless of course you’re Australian artist Daniel Agdag, who has been toiling away creating a series of new works each more detailed and fascinating than the next. Agdag doesn’t…
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Artist Turns Everyday Objects Into Playful Characters
With a creative eye, the casual observer can espy characters or faces in the everyday objects all around us. French artist Gilbert Legrand takes this a step further by painting and otherwise modifying totally mundane objects to turn them into cute characters and give them new life. Legrand lets his active imagination soar by painting…
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Spectacular Stitched Leaves by Hillary Fayle
We love these stitched leaved by artist Hillary Fayle who is currently working on a MFA in Craft/Material studies at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. You can see more examples on her website, and custom pieces are available on request. Photos by Natalie Hofert Photography. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a…
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Artist Creates a Bikini Top in Support of #FreeTheNipple
Head to a beach this summer and you might see a bunch of women walking around with their nipples on show. But, before you drop your ice-cream cone on the floor and gawk, know that all may not be as it first seems. The women may very well be sporting the new TaTa Top –…
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Beautiful Vases Constructed from Hundreds of Pencils by Studio Markunpoika
Amalgamated is a new series of vessels by studio markunpoika constructed from assembled pencils. Taking advantage of the pencil’s unique hexagon shape, the pencils are first tightly glued together at each facet to form a solid block. The final pieces are then carved on a machine lathe to reveal the insides of each pencil. Via…
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Beautiful Embroideries of Landscapes and Plants by Ana Teresa Barboza
Using embroidery, yarn, and and wool artist Ana Teresa Barboza creates landscapes and other imagery that exists in the space between tapestry and sculpture. Mimicking the flow of waves or grass, each piece seems to tumble from its embroidery hoop where it flows down the gallery wall. Most of the pieces seen here are from…
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Super Creative Rolling Pins Create Super Cool Baked Goodies!
Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska creates amazing laser-engraved wooden rolling pins that print a multitude of different designs onto cookie dough. She has a number of standard designs available over on Etsy, but creates customized pins to order. Do you love them as much as we do? And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art…
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Amazing Color-Matching Pen Can Write in Any Color on Earth!
If you’ve ever wanted to capture the exact color of something, now you can. The amazing Scribble pen makes it possible to match any pigment you see by using an RGB sensor and a five-color ink cartridge, and it will allow you to translate the beautiful hues of real life onto paper or your digital…
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A Mini Book of Major Events by Evan Lorenzen
Trying to compress the history of Earth into a single book is an especially daunting task, the difficulty is compounded when the book you’re writing is the size of a nickel and is limited to just a few pages. Oh, and it needs lots of pictures. Lucky for us, illustrator Evan Lorenzen was up to the task…