I boycott everything that is not made by my hand!

...And if I want to I‘ll put paper trees in that street
and cardboard birds that go tweet, tweet, tweet.
And if I want to I‘ll pencil in a piece of land,
a whole farm and cardboard cows on demand....

Why actually handmade is the best thing in the world ?

Spisek żarówkowy - nieznana historia zaplanowanej nieprzydatności

Pupazzetti by Irene Pattarelli

Irene is good architect, great illustrator of books for children and awesome cakes seller. She lives and works in Barcelona. Ones upon a time she was making pupazzetti. Here you have some examples. Enjoy:)

Inge Jacobsen, Vogue and handmade photography

From the artist statement: I have created a series consisting of covers of Vogue magazines that I have cross-stitched into. The process involves making holes with a needle to prevent the paper from getting damaged when I start sewing into it. This is all done by eye. Then it’s a case of very carefully cross-stitching the whole thing. It takes roughly 50 hours to create one piece, but this does depend on the image. This process makes the covers very tactile and it creates something that is impossible to reproduce on a large scale. Each piece is unique and handmade and I feel I have taken it out of circulation and made it something of my own. (...)

Although images of these covers have ended up on many different websites around the world and have subsequently become part of the mass produced world, the originals cannot be reproduced. Experiencing this work in the flesh is quite different from looking at a scanned image. Its glossiness is gone in the flesh and is replaced with a soft cloth surface. On a conceptual level I also feel it removes the gloss and glamour from the world of high fashion and replaces it with an old fashioned homely feel.

Way of recycling old newspaper - Philippines

I can do the same, but in another language:)

Recycled toy car made in Cameroon

Afrigadget is an icredible blog written by Eric Hersman, dedicated to creativity and new inventions made in Africa. This is one of my favourite blogs and if I could I would just copy and paste some of his posts - it is sooo interesting and impressing.

In Africangadget I've found this movie about super fun car made with "discarded flip-flops (slippers), sardine tins, bamboo or raffia palm, electrical conduit (pipe), rubber and bits of string". Enjoy.

Handmade Corc Castellers

Everyone should have Cork Castellers at home. Fortunately they are easy to make.

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Louise Bourgeois "Fabrics" by Germano Celant

Louise Bourgeois "Fabrics" is a new book by italian art critic Germano Celant (Arte Povera, Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona:)

WORKS:

More about Louise:

Dzieci z Limuru czyli jak zrobić piłkę

DZIĘKI AFRIGADGET

Korehira Watanabe - handmade sword maker

Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker from Etsy on Vimeo.

Anja Markiewicz i mini origami

A tu więcej obrazków: faltsucht.de

Dzięki Say Hi! To Design.

Miyako Kanamori czyli zabawka ze starej rękawiczki

Miyako Kanamori jest Japonką, autorką całej serii książek recyclingowych, traktujących o kwestiach tak poważnych jak np. co zrobić z jedną rękawiczką kiedy zgubi się druga.

Oto jedna z nich:

Tutaj zilustrowany proces przygotowywania wiewiórki z jednej rękawiczki:

Miyako Kanamori prowadzi swoją stronę. W sieci można kupić jej książki.
Więcej recyklingowych przytulanek znajduje się tutaj.

Blahol czyli warszawska manufaktura z kurierskimi gadżetami

Blahol robi torby dla kurierów od 5 lat, ma już manufakturę, stronę, fanów. Jego torby zrobione są z materiału o nazwie cordura, charakteryzującego się dużą odpornością na przetarcia. Wnętrze jest plastikowe, zgrzewane, w związku z czym w blaholach można przewozić nawet wodę. Każda torba ma swój numer, każda wykonywana jest na specjalne zamówienie, nie ma tu serii czy gotowców leżących na półkach. Każda torba jest trochę inna. A oprócz tego - u blahola - cała reszta rowerowych gadżetów.