Tag: craft
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After Breaking My Wrist, I Turned My Plain Cast Into Thanos‘ Infinity Gauntlet
I broke my wrist recently and decided that rather than walk around with a plain white cast, I’d pimp my cast. With the ‘Avengers: Endgame’ just released, it seemed like the only logical thing to do! [zombify_post]
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Designer Creates 3D-Printed Press That Allows Anyone to Print Art From Home
Printmaking has been making a bit of a comeback in recent times, as it allows a contemporary artist the ability to achieve a traditional, embossed aesthetic. However, printing presses are expensive and extremely heavy, making them inaccessible to a lot of people. That’s why Martin Schneider is on a mission to make basic printmaking machinery…
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Playful Paper Masks by Lobulo Studio for Barcelona’s Grec Festival
For the 2018 marketing of Barcelona’s long-running Grec Festival, which includes dance, theater, circus, and music, the London-based Lobulo Studio was tapped to create a series of unusual paper masks. Using the prompt “new species,” Lobulo explains on their website that they were “playing with the concept of new rare species that nobody has seen before” in order…
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Artist Turns Found Stones Into Animals That You Can Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
To me, stones are not simple materials or canvases for painting pictures on. Among all those numerous stones on a river bank, one stone, looking like an animal, catches my eye. When I find a stone, I feel that stone has found me too. Stones have their own intentions, and I consider my encounters with…
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A DIY Dad Builds His Son a Wooden Highchair Modelled After a ‘Star Wars’ AT-ST
If you've recently had a baby and consider yourself a bit of a handyperson, this post is for you. Matthew Regonini is a designer and builder and recently documented his attempt to create a wooden highchair after an All Terrain Scout Transport (AT-ST) from Star Wars. Meant for his young son, this wooden feeding chair…
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Stunning Metallic Embroideries of Dragonflies and Other Insects by Humayrah Bint Altaf
Humayrah Bint Altaf is an England-based embroidery artist who constructs ornate insects using shimmering threads and metallic beads. Her dragonflies, bees, beetles, and butterflies take shape using carefully paired patterns and colors that form wings, bodies, and even delicate feet. While Altaf takes artistic license with the exact shapes and colors in her embroideries, her…
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Artist Comes Up With Genius Way To Use Puzzles, Sells The Result For Up To $650
Putting together a Jigsaw puzzle can be delightfully frustrating and Vancouver based artist Tim Klein wants to add in some extra pieces. Yes, Klein practices the obscure art of ‘puzzle montage,’ taking pieces from various jigsaw puzzle sets and re-arranging them to form a new stunning image. So how does it work? “Jigsaw puzzle companies tend…
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Doctor Tells This Man That He Needs To Wear A Mask To Help Him Breathe So He Turns It Into An Alien Facehugger
They say you should always listen to the advice of your doctors. After all, they have your best interests at heart. This was the case for Jared Grey, a sci-fi author, who since getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, was told he had to wear a CPAP mask every time he goes to sleep, which facilitates…
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Designer Crochets Seafood So Well You Can Almost Taste It
Knitwear designer Kate Jenkins loves to keep busy and push herself to grow and be better every day. So when she realised she was getting to cozy with her career, she started looking for new ways to express her love for wool, textile, and color. “I have always crocheted since being taught as a small…
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Artist Shows Us How to Make Your Kid a Cardboard Knight in Armor
Don’t throw away your cardboard boxes just yet. Warren King shared this amazing process on Flickr of fashioning a full suit of cardboard armor for his 6-year-old son. With creativity and ingenuity, King created each body part out of smaller cardboard cutout pieces creating arms, legs, a breastplate and a helmet. His 15th-century inspiration required…