The Week in Craft: January 23, 2013

The Chipstone Foundation’s new Minds of Makers series features awesome videos documenting how things are made.

James McNabb makes miniature cityscapes out of wood that will blow your mind.

The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin has closed until summer while it undertakes a massive move of its printing presses and 1.5 million pieces of antique wood type, the largest collection of wood type - beloved of letterpress printers and designers - in the United States. The museum's building, formerly a factory where the type was made, has been sold. The museum, subject of the 2009 documentary "Typeface," is looking for donations and volunteers to help with the move.

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts' "End of Session Auction" begins online on January 30.

Artists can see potential material in everything. UK-based artist D*face’s “Eyebaubles” project turns discarded Christmas trees into street art by sticking googly eyeballs on the trees, turning them into characters with distinct expressions that liven up the post-holiday streetscape.

A monumental John Grade sculpture, Wawona (above), has been permanently installed at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. Standing more than 65 feet tall, the sculpture perforates the museum's ceiling and extends through the floor of the museum into lake waters below. 

The New York Ceramics Fair is under way through Sunday, bringing together some three dozen international galleries.

Do you appreciate the toaster for both its function and its form? Rest assured that you’re not alone! The Cyber Toaster Museum offers numerous visions of how the design of the toaster has evolved through the 20th century and how people are still thinking of new ways to present everyone’s favorite preparer of heated bread products. Take and look and you will be surprised at what designs pop up!

Art Palm Beach runs from January 24 - 28th, during which legendary glass artist Lino Tagliapietra will receive the Visionary Award on Friday, January 25.

According to Twitter’s own tracking numbers, there are approximately 500 million tweets per day. While one might think that tweets, much like small talk, disappear soon after they reach their audience, it turns out that the Library of Congress is cataloging all of the world's tweets. This makes one wonder if future archaeologists will believe that early 21st century humans could only think and speak in 140 characters.

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