Essential Dividers
Unlock your creativity with this humble tool. How comfortable would you be giving up your tape measure? If that puts you in a cold sweat, I can relate. Time was when I worked only from prints, [...]
Designing With Curves
Getting off the straight path can be liberating. I can see it with my eyes shut: a curving stretch of highway snaking past Otter Cliffs in Acadia National Park. Each twist in the road opens up a [...]
Designing by Foot, Hand & Eye
Empirical, not Imperial, is the measure of the pre-industrial maker. In this article I’m going to show how I design a simple piece of furniture whilst immersed in the mindset of the [...]
Design in Wood
“The best thing about DIW is that it’s open to all woodworkers, and winning an award—especially for the first time—really encourages participants to keep at it and enter again the [...]