13Jul2010 |
Craft Social Hand Painted Glass |
Last week another successful Craft Social was held at the yaean office with the 'die-hard' crafters (Bailey, Nancy, Penny, Luo Kuan, and Arlyna; Betty was sick but she called in to let everyone know she wants to do the project on Monday), in attendance. The project was simply hand-painting glass. Playing around with textures and colurs using 2 different type of materials: Bailey - painted her glass with fishes jumping into the sea Nancy - painted a glass bowl with a Chinese goldfish kite design Penny - painted 2 drinking glasses with 2 motifs; 1 with hearts covering the bottom and 1 with a blue-tone 'ethnic' motif Luo Kuan - opted for simple and… |
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05Jul2010 |
Embroidered CMYK Type |
Why print when you can embroider? Evelin Kasikov produces these beautiful hand embroidered fonts and type faces which have been used in magazines such as Wired. Exploring the relationship between craft and graphic design - her web site is well worth a look. |
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01Jul2010 |
Make A Quilt With The V and A |
The Victoria and Albert Museum have a patchwork quilt pattern generator on their site. Above is the result of feeding the yaean logo through the system. Original is below. The generator makes a downloadable pattern complete with colour swatch guide. Marv. |
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30Jun2010 |
Craft Social T-Shirts |
Arlyna has been organizing a Craft Social once every 2 weeks in our office. On the 7th Craft Social, it was a special workshop to design T-shirts using the freezer paper stenciling method as seen on a lot of crafty sites like MADE. The finished articles are pictured below. Read on for more pics of the production process. Naomi: Likes apples and hearts; simple elements. So she combined the elements into a very nice graphic. Betty: Likes cute things so Naomi helped her find some doggy designs and Arlyna helped her cut up the stencil. Betty proudly did the painting herself. Betty actually made 2 shirts; the other one was a dolphin. Nancy: She likes cute stuff, too, and… |
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10Mar2010 |
Craft Social |
The crafty designers decided to get together to do some crafts together. It started with some googling over a Japanese craft magazine until everyone realized they shared an interest in doing some felt crafts. A lot of fun. No one wanted to go home. |
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