While there may be enough endearing puppet shows on the web waves, there are certainly not enough puppet shows that take on the build, hack, solder, crack, spark, squeeze and flow of electronics and circuitry. Adafruit is changing that with a new show airing next year called Circuit Playground. The show is set to premiere March 2013 via Ustream and Google+ tackling topics from robots to making.

Tripping among the vines past the fence row’s corner, he pushed against the cane that attached his arm to the ground. It was a peacefull corner (minus the vines) and a place that always left the heat outside its shaded surrounding. Yet, to this day, he peered into the top of that fence post, hoping once again to gaze upon these links. Michal Dziekan – So much detail in these expressive illustrations that catch you between a dream state and the reality of the story. Shroom etching – I love the art of Corey Corcoran, particularly his knack for carving the reliefs of his imagination into the surface of various…

While most of us may have picked up a ‘101 things to (fill in the blank) before you die’ book at some point or another, none of those books have had the charismatic charm of an ‘Experience Passport’. Designed by Communication Designer Alex Egner, the Passport offers the design undergrad students at the University of North Texas a way to step away from iPhones, Facebook, and Twitter, and experience the preexisting analog world around them.

As 3D Printing inches off the ground in mainstream culture more and more each day, it can be difficult for a new user to navigate the wide plethora of online 3D printing options. Perhaps it’s just me, but I see 3D Printing 2.0 as, among other improvements, involving more application-specific design and printing services. Twikit is just one of those companies…if you want a custom trophy for your annual neighborhood chili cook off.

You know the right lighting just makes the most cold, damp murder-scene of a space a warm, inviting nest of shadows and highlights. Thing is, most shapes wrapping the bulbs are just as cold and unstylish as the bloody room corners they’re illuminating. Not so with the handmade Faceture Light Shade from the fab mind of New Zealand’s Phil Cuttance. He’s created a series of faceted vessels, light-shades and table that we simply adore and he’s not afraid to tell about the craftsmanship either.

When asked to take part in the Designer Challenge in a recent issue of Computer Arts Projects centered around a new spin on the business card, designer Mikey Burton opted to omit the card altogether–creating a traveling ‘letterpress’ instead.