Tag: Crafts - Page 6
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Green Gift Guide: The Pop Culture Fan
Yes, it's in the nature of a pop culture fan to be nearly impossible to shop for: Simply because he or she has seen every movie, heard every album, read every book, and watched every television show that comes to mind. That's why we've pulled together gif
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Green Gift Guide: The WeeHugger
Let's be honest: It is way more fun to buy gifts for kids. Toys wrapped in big, shiny boxes reveal dolls that must be immediately introduced to the family or games they can't wait to begin--gifts much more exciting than a tie or a cooking pan. But kids' g
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Coat Hangers and Bike Parts Make Elegant Hanging Light Fixtures
Images: Organelle DesignThey call them Hangeliers. In East Vancouver, designers Alex Witko and Courtney Hunt spend their days between the hardware store, the studio, and the city's alleys and dumpsters. Their little firm, Organelle Design, has generated
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Recycled Freitag Bags Become Compost Art During Vienna Design Week
Image: Walking Chair Gallery Freitag bags are a modern eco classic. Swiss brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag make their slick bags, wallets, iPhone cases, and other accessories from discarded tarps, the type used by long-distance freight trucks in
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Giant Whale Made of Felt Beached at Museum
Mocha Dick, a giant whale made of felt, is the creation of artists Tristin Lowe. The piece is housed at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. The purpose? In part, to send home an environmental message. The piece is a
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Take a Hambone Along for the Ride
(Image: NY Times As the world becomes a more perfect place, where elephant landmine victims walk again, streetsigns are best used as jewelry, and coal plants get the royal STFU, we're gonna need more handy little things like the VeloPocket. Along with
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MICROFACTORY Fabricates Downloadable Design On Your Desk
Image via DK Ahn Rather than ship an object to your door or local store, imagine downloading the underlying info, procuring the materials locally, and then letting a machine build it. Maybe even on your kitchen table. This technology is not ready to
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Wind-Powered Knitting Machine Puts a New Spin on Wind Socks
Talk about an easy way to make scarves. Using an old sock knitting machine and a wind turbine set-up, Merel Karhof has come up with an interesting way to knit like the wind, or rather, with the wind. From the website: With the power of
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Yesterday's Old T-Shirt, Today's Cool Reusable Bag
Istanbul's first organic market celebrated its third anniversary with concerts, dancing, and, of course, plenty of organic eats. But one of the most popular events was a workshop for sewing your own reusable cloth bag.
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Worthless Is a Shop and a Concept
Worthless was a pop-up shop that examined consumerism and art and the value of material objects. It's a take-off on the much-missed Woolworth's stores except everything is free. "Customers" are invited to bring something to the store and it will be
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Gardeners Get Back to Traditional Tools
In gardening, as in other areas, people are returning to traditional, solid, well-built tools that will last and be a thing of joy to use. For example, a father and son, John Henry Rudd and his son Graeme, are the last commercial rake makers in
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What To Do With Your Excess Tote Bags: Make Them Into Pillows
A few weeks ago Jaymi noted "Raise you hand if you have as many reusable bags coming out your ears as you did plastic bags a few years ago." We ran a poll on it and a lot of people agreed. Coming back from ICFF I had to do a little triage, keep the
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Fun At the DesignBoom Mart: Printing and Folding (Video)
Industrial design site Designboom is always a great source for us at TreeHugger; it is also a great resource and source of support for the design community. It curates the Designboom Mart, where young designers get to strut their stuff to the trades
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Green Eyes On: Herbal Remedies for Stress
Last week I did my usual segment, Living Green with Sara Snow, on CNN.com/LIVE. I answered viewer questions about herbal remedies for common ailments like stress and asthma. Reducing stress naturally is a
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Handkerchief Art is Useful Too
In praise of the humble handkerchief, once ubiquitous and now ignored. It has had a long history--from high fashion to a way of flirting, from plain white to embroidered. And always more environmentally friendly than paper
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What's New is Old Again: Traditional Food Storage in Earthenware
The poster on the wall of Barbara Taylor's booth at the Green Living Show says "What's new is old again"- a phrase I have used to discuss building technologies of a hundred years ago. Barbara is a potter, and makes clay jars that keep mushrooms fresh
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Rescuing Native Communities Craft Through Design: Caranday Quinua
As we've shown before with initiatives like Oficina Nomade, design partnerships between studios and native artisans have proved to be a great way to empower local work and materials in small communities. By using their techniques
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Must "Craftivism" (Craft + Activism) Have A Politically Liberal Bent?
Photo: Gideon Tsang on Flickr We know that the concept of the "buy and sell handmade" blog Etsy has revolutionary implications for consumer culture and what it means to be part of a creative community. But does politics have a place in crafting
