Category: Make

  • Hack an IKEA Ribba Frame to Make a Lightbox

    Hack an IKEA Ribba Frame to Make a Lightbox

    I recently went to the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at The Design Museum, and I came away with this transparency reproduced from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was thinking of ways to display it, and decided that it would be fun to build a lightbox. I decided to use an IKEA Ribba frame because they’re naturally…

  • Giro d’Italia

    Giro d’Italia

    Today was the start of the Giro d’Italia. The Slovenian rider, Primož Roglič, won the first stage time trial up to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca high above Bolognia. British rider Simon Yates came second, while Londoner Tao Geoghegan Hart finished 7th. There are three weeks of riding to look forward to,…

  • Screen Printing on Fabric

    Here are a few recent screen printing pieces that I’ve been making.  His Girl Friday is one of my favourite films of all time, and I’ve been meaning to make a t-shirt or two out of this for some time. I’m not sure… I’m certain that these photos don’t do the print justice. For starters,…

  • Book Making

    I spent a few hours at the Barbican attending a book making course, and ended up with these two booklets. They’re books with four-hole stab binding, with 20 pages of double-ply paper inside. Actually one of them has a couple of extra holes to allow a more complex stitching pattern in the corners. My stitching…