Pants Pocket Cycling Reflectors

The inimitable Becky Stern posted this clever project tutorial for pocket sized cycling reflectors over at her blog this morning. These babies are sure to improve cycling safety and (insert pun about drawing attention to your assets here). Visit the link for the full video. Thanks, Becky!

Work.Place

Here's a project that I'd like to see go national. Portland photographer, Carlie Armstrong has been featuring the work spaces of local artisans in a project she calls work.space. My second favorite activity next to working in my own studio is looking at other people's spaces. This site is very satisfying in that way. Dig it.

via The Best Part

Royal Schmoyal

I'd way rather go to this geeky sci-fi wedding featured over at Gizmodo today. At first, I thought it was just a Firefly theme, but it looks from the pictures as if it's anything goes. Blade Runner, Doctor Who, Star Wars, The Matrix...looks fun.

Classroom-Sized Camera Obscura

Cuban-born photographer Abelardo Morell demonstrated the concept of camera obscura to college students in 1988 by turning the entire classroom into a camera. Check out the whole story over on Neatorama. Cool!

Chainring Candle Holder

I've seen tons of chainring repurposing in my travels, but I'm really digging this hanging candle holder made from a chainring that came from a Campy Record Group and a MTB pedal. Very elegant.

via Recyclart

Car Wars

Couldn't resist a post about modded cars that might have come from Star Wars. Some come closer than others, but that's part of the fun, isn't it?

via Crooked Brains

The Design File: Eric Ellis

I'm loving the retro-feeling design work of young Eric Ellis, now gainfully employed with Ogilvy & Mather. Especially the piece above. I see a bright future ahead.

via Grain Edit

Musical Painting

Oh man, there should definitely be more of this going on. Loved it!

via neatorama

The Acoustic Alarm

The alarm on my phone is fairly pleasant, but I think I would like waking up to Jamie McMahon's acoustic alarm clock even better. This thing is pretty genius.

via colossal

The Dinos Are Here!

After my fourteen hour drive yesterday, it was really nice to get home and have a bunch of packages waiting for me. Especially, since one of them was from Plaid Pigeon and contained the Dino Planter that I ordered before I left! It was wrapped with the utmost care and arrived with only the slightest dirt spillage. I gave it a little water and put it on my kitchen window sill. Pretty much plug and play. I love it. You can get yours here. Don't forget to enter the coupon code DUDECRAFT at check out for a 10% discount!

Pills and Soap

Digging this tremendous ball gown made from...pill vials. Must make quite the noise when it moves around, but it sure is a pretty piece of re-use.

via Recyclart

A Proper Post for the Day

Hey, Dude Crafters! I'm off on an 11 hour drive today, so I thought it was only fitting to leave you with some of Tim Delger's road sign re-use furniture to entertain you. Please excuse the sparse posting today. Not easy to blog from a moving automobile, dontcha' know?

via Unconsumption

Spray Can Armchair

Design-wise, I'm not entirely loving Luigi Semeraro's spray can armchair and ottoman, but concept-wise, I'm loving them. They remind me of furniture from a sci-fi movie like Moon or Outland or something. Kudos for the reuse, and I do love the color pallette.


via Design Boom

Cable Coloring

Genius at large and Make contributor, Sean Michael Ragan, has come up with this brilliant little method for dyeing any dull or uncoordinated cables you may have lying about the house. Now, as long as they are sheathed with PVC, the color choices are endless. How to here. Thanks Sean!

Whisked Away

I'm not absolutely loving the way this whisk lamp looks in the light of day, but when the lights go out...ooh la la, I'm diggin' it!

via Recyclart

Martin Pyper Does His Thing With String

frontiers of reality - test film from me studio on Vimeo.

Digging the type/string combinations of Martin Pyper's work. Reminds me of a crazy cat's cradle or something. I'd love to have one of these pieces.

via NotCot

Fred Eerdekens' Shadow Play

From wire to plants to fluffy cotton clouds, Fred Eerdekens makes words appear, seemingly from nowhere. I imagine that with an unfocused light source, these objects become meaningless, but with the right angle, these curlicues and clouds go from medium to message. Cool!

via Design Milk

Flying Origami Boxes

I fascinated by this mass of origami boxes suspended from the ceiling of a gallery in Doncaster. What does it all mean?

via Recyclart

Inked

Digging these large scale ink drawings by artist, Gerhard Mayer that I found over at Illusion. This guy has some serious flow going. I like that!

Lori Weitzel's 365 Project

I had gone over to Noah's 365 blog this morning to check out something completely different, but I ended up being mesmerized by illustrator, Lori Weitzel's project instead. Her combination of inspiration boards and color chips left me excited about making stuff, and that's what it's all about, right? You can check out all of Lori's work here. Enjoy.

Motorcycle Rococo

I'm mostly kind of bored by what shows up at Milan this time of year. It's not that the stuff is inherently boring, it's just not my scene, you know? So you can imagine that when I saw "Rococo Plan" by Taiwanese firm, Yii, I got a little excited, because, well, it's big and awesome and made out of motorcycles! The perfect antidote to yet another chair.

via Designboom

Ithaca Antiques

Well, I walked out without anything, but I darned near snapped up the Big Boy tool set. If the decal wouldn't have been scratched, that thing would have been headed for North Carolina.

All Who Wander...

I was really hacked off at my GPS app for getting me lost on my way out of Richmond at 7am the other day. That is, until it lead me straight to this building. I don't know what they make, but I'm digging the sign.

via My Stupid GPS App with the pleasant woman's voice who sometimes doesn't know where she's going.

A Clean House

I found my new motto and my new favorite website title in one fell swoop. Score!

via Homemade Crap

Hanging By A Thread

Found this crazy ceiling this morning over at My Modern Met. Beautiful multi-colored threads make up this incredible pattern. This from the site:

"The London and Mumbai-based firm Serie Architects designed The Monsoon Club at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The club is a multi-purpose performance space at the center but that's not the exciting part. Look up and you'll see an amazing installation of three-dimensional carpet that has been suspended over the main space! It was constructed out of four colored threads (white and three shades of blue) and influenced by ‘dhurries,’ a type of flat woven rug in India. This magnificent piece took over two months, 20 individuals, five staff members and 15 students to complete. The result is one you have to see to believe."

Paris Pothole Patching

In the same spirit of the razor wire crochet from the other day, adding color and pattern to an otherwise monochromatic urban landscape, Juliana Santacruz Herrera's pothole interventions are brightening Paris with a new and surprising palette.

via Design Boom

El-egg-ant

Instructables user, bbstudio is turning out some amazing pieces for the ongoing egg-bot contest over there. I found this one over at Make this morning and was blown away. There's hardly any egg shell left! Even though this was accomplished with the help of a machine, it' still pretty amazing, right?

Sk8r Twins

Check this new film directed and published by Ty Evans, featuring 12 year-old twins Pierce and Chris Brunner. These kids are s-h-r-e-d-d-i-n-g! Kudos little ones. Oh yeah, and nice film, Ty.

via Fubiz

That's How

Although I have no small children of my own, I'm still a big fan of kids books. I have probably read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus more times than most adults who are childless, but, you know, it's funny, so bug off. Swiss Miss may have a pint sized excuse to read kid lit, but not having one isn't going to stop me from buying Cristoph Niemann's new book. Looks awesome, right? Who's with me?