Hot or Not? Wire Wrapped

opinion, the crafted object

Opinion : Wire wrapped jewellery has to be one of the most abused methods of construction known to metal craft. The plethora of ugly, misshapen abominations I endured while searching for good examples to show you meant that I searched through FIFTY PAGES on Etsy...

The crafted object : Mark O’Brien {cardboard}

the crafted object

Mark O’Brien makes chickens. From cardboard. And cars,  guitars,  robots and shoes…     The Manchester-based illustrator who graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University with a degree in Graphic Arts chooses to work in cardboard for its...

Opinion : 3D printing and craft

opinion, the crafted object

Just how do 3D printing and craft fit together? Is it just a matter of using a virtual image or scanning in what you want and shoving a copy of that thing out of the printer? Or as many copies as you want out of the printer? And how is that craft?    {click image...

Precision and surprise : the 3D printed jewellery of Cinnamon Lee

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Cinnamon Lee’s first encounter with 3D manufacturing technologies was at the Australian National University, while she was undertaking her Visual Arts degree. ANU had just acquired an FDM rapid prototyping machine, and she took to it immediately; she...

The crafted object : Sim Luttin {jewellery}

the crafted object

Australian jeweller Sim Luttin grew up wanting be an inventor. Time spent watching things being created by her grandfather tinkering in his shed and her scientist father had a profound and early influence on her. “I was encouraged to do things in a more labour...

The crafted object : Sandra Bowkett {ceramic}

photography, the crafted object

Sandra Bowkett is one of those artists that the more you find out about them, the more in awe you are of them.     Sandra is a ceramicist living in pristine woodland near Tallarook in central Victoria with her partner, producing cups and bowls in porcelain...