Book description from Amazon.com: 

What happens when professional craft artists are allowed to let loose – when they get to explore their mischievous and irreverent sides? Find out in this groundbreaking book, which, for the very first time, reveals an entirely different side of “serious” craft. Hundreds of images and essays from all over the world allow you to gain insight into the creative minds of contemporary artists like never before. read more

Do you like sending and receiving snail mail? Do you like writing letters, making crafts, or putting together fun packages? You should try swapping!

Swap-bot is a online service that organizes group swaps and a community of creative individuals. Swap-bot takes the hassle out of participating in group swaps by organizing all of the participant information and doing all of the partner assignments.

On Swap-bot, you can host swaps, join swaps, and chat with other swappers from all over the world. Give it a try!

Retro resources for designers: clipart, stock photos, fonts, tiles.

Tack O' Rama has lots of retro images - especially of women. 

A gallery of Kelly Lowe Glass' "kritters". Half one animal and half another, fully hand blown and sculpted glass and good for a smile. Be sure to read their adoption papers!

Where artists and designers swap art for free. It's that simple.

This is a photo group to showcase the lunch you brought to work. The goal is to create an incentive to

1) bring lunch to work (instead of buying expensive, less healthy meals around the office) and

2) to bring better lunches to work, lunches that are worthy of not just eating, but photographing.

It's also nice to just break out the camera and use some company time to take photos and connect with a photo community.

bARTer Sauce is an experiment in trading for art and odd objects that Rosalie Gale has been running since 2006. Whatever she gets - she trades again for something else. You can send her a trade offer for anything currently available - you just need something odd and a story about anything at all (true or false).

Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta Please, began by taking knitting out of the home and into the streets. The simple juxtaposition of this woven material placed within an urban environment has inspired a new generation of knitters who no longer view function as the sole purpose for knitting. This new approach to knitting questions the assumptions of a traditional craft while adding a previously unused material to the world of street art. read more

Handmade Top 10 is a voting site designed to help sellers improve their products and to bring the very best handmade, vintage, and supply items in front of buyers. Our voting system is allows anyone to add items from Etsy and vote. There is no login or sign up required, and is 100% free. read more

A world wide button exchange, art show and benefit for community art programs.