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I met Gal Tel Vardi about fifteen years ago when I spent a semester as a visiting lecturer at Shenkar College of Design. Gal (“Wave” in Hebrew) was the head of the advanced fabrication lab, [...]

Thoughts on Adam Savage’s Every Tool’s a Hammer Buy the book here You may recognize the man on the cover of this book, Adam Savage, as one half of the duo from TV’s “Mythbusters.” The show ran [...]

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Elizabeth Spotswood Spencer, an artist from North Carolina.  How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? While [...]

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Loni LaCour, a designer and woodworker from Missouri.  How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? It’s an [...]

Reimagining the Ball and Mallet [View the virtual gallery here] It wasn’t supposed to turn out quite like this. Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet, co-curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken, [...]

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Taryn Pratt, a full-time DBA and part-time woodworker from Arizona. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? [...]

There is no field of woodworking that puts wood - our material of celebration and choice, to the most extremes of tests, use, and abuse, as in the discipline of boat building.

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Richard Smith, a woodworker from New York. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? It was only 3 years ago [...]

Shortly after arriving in the USA Vlad began working at Thomas Newman’s studio (read part one of this story here). At first, he helped in building the designs that Tom created or that were [...]

My wife and I were walking through a Home Depot store about 20 years ago, when I noticed a small Makita tablesaw and mentioned that it would be fun to have a tool like that just to fool around [...]

Woodworker and designer Cristiane Martins has a thing for puzzles, and her journey to fine marquetry is a culmination of the pieces she has picked up along her path. Born in Belém do Pará, in the [...]

Vladimir Krasnogorov was born and raised in Central Asia and overcame his humble beginnings to become one of the most sophisticated and avant-garde furniture designer-makers of our time. He is a [...]