Tag: Crafts - Page 7
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Blumebox Sprouts My Monet Kids Kit For Little Artists
Photo credit: Blumebox Blumebox (which is both the name of the company and the product) has planted a new seed of an idea: A reusable, 100 percent recyclable flower vase that your pint-sized Michelangelos can decorate and then fill with cut blooms,
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Where Memory Used To Sit by Guillem Ferran
We love it when furniture can be adapted to different functions, like Catalan designer Guillem Ferran’s chair ‘Distendido’ that turns into a laundry rack. We also love it when design brings back traditional values and adds innovation to a
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Crafting: Antidote to Iceland's Economic Woes?
Thanks to the collapse of the major banks, the ongoing economic crisis, inflation of the króna and escalating unemployment, many resourceful Icelanders
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Rajboori, beautiful eco silk textiles from India
If you like it colourful and silky, eco-friendly and hand-crafted, Rajboori has just the things for you. These luxurious eco silk textiles brighten up any home with a bit of Indian colours and modern designs.
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Sneak Peek: Cooper Hewitt to Showcase Design Innovations with Local Materials
The design magazine I.D. recently had a sneak peek into an upcoming exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt museum in New York.
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Laptop Pillows, Shields and Solutions for Scorched Thighs
Log laptop pillow by Intelligent Forms (Photo: iF) The uncomfortable sensation of my laptop searing my thighs (and possibly emitting enough electromagnetic radiation to render me infertile) has led this occupational nomad to look for a suitable laptop
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Emily Pilloton Discusses the Hippo Roller and other Designs for Humanity (Part Two)
In our last conversation with The founder of Project H Design, Emily Pilloton voiced her frustrations with a design world that has lost sight of its duty. In this segment, we're taken through her latest project: a math playground in Uganda for the
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Emily Pilloton Discusses the Hippo Roller and other Designs for Humanity (Part One)
The world doesn’t need another bamboo coffee table. Design, says Emily Pilloton, should be about solving our most pressing problems. Easier said than done, certainly, but the young architect/designer is not just talk. Pilloton founded Project H Design
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DIY: Make Your Own Fabric Eco-Labels
Image via Crafting a Green World It’s true that a little fabric label can add an extra dimension of professionalism and brand recognition to your handmade stuff, especially if you run your own small business or just love the do-it-yourself ethic. We came
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Vaso 2.0, a Flowerpot Made From Cork
The Home Project, a design studio based between Berlin and Portugal, have surprised us before with their curious choice for materials; egg cups made from salt, and speakers made from cork. Wonderfully simple, fully biodegradable and renewable is what we
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Beautiful Handbags - From Your Cat's Fur
"Chatangora" — that's what Simpsonville, South Carolina-based business Catty Shack Creations is calling "cat hair yarn" — used to create affordable, one-of-a-kind handbags from Persian and Angora cat hair. Professional groomer Danelle
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Green Eyes On: Handmade Gifts for the Holidays
Photo: Cláudia*~Assad via FlickrFlip on the TV and you’ll see commercials suggesting every little thing under the sun is the perfect holiday gift. Turn on the radio, and you're sure to hear ‘round-the-clock Christmas carols. (I’ll admit, I’m one of those
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Fall One of A Kind Show Roundup
It takes years to get to be an exhibitor at the One of a Kind Show in Toronto, an institution every Christmas season where you can load up on the work of artists, craftspeople and artisans. (It is coming to New York and Chicago this year, don't miss
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Leakey Jewellery is an African Tribute
If you studied anthropology at school then you remember Louis Leakey, studying those skulls in the middle of nowhere--the Olduvai Gorge--seventy years ago...so exotic. Well, he is gone and his children are still there and have carried on the family
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Art Au Naturel
Beachcombing becomes Filiz Ateş and Christiane Alaettinoğlu--and anyone who puts on one of their driftwood brooches, necklaces, or rings.
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Women's Hands Make Nice Work for Turkish Craft Site
Call it Etsy East: But instead of hip young American artists trying to renew the crafting tradition, the hands behind the goods for sale on the online marketplace Kadın Eliyle belong to low-income Turkish women.Although there is a strong tradition of
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'Cutting Edge' Trendy Felt Rugs and Table Runners
The idea of putting felt rugs, table runners and wallcoverings around your home might bring back images of arts and crafts projects from elementary school. But the designs coming out of Selina Rose are anything but elementary.
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How to Go Green: Wine, Old School Halloween Crafts and Tasty Indian Stew
:: Toast to a sustainable future using our How to Go Green: Wine and Buy Green: Organic Cabernet Sauvignon guides.
