Art From Thread Spools
Devorah Sperber makes upside down pixelated pictures using spools of thread like this version of John Lennon's self portrait. When viewed through a glass or acrylic sphere placed in front of the piece the image appears smaller and the right…
Pencils From Old Newspapers
Since 1998 TreeSmart have been making pencils out of recycled newspapers. This is such a cool idea! The trees have already been cut down to make the paper for the newspapers - why not re-use instead of cutting down more…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
