It's been 20 years since Nan Roche published "The New Clay," and polymer clay has come a long way baby. I picked up polymer about the same time as Roche published her book, generally recognized as the first serious assessment of the material in print....
In 2009 I created two sets of retro styled rayguns. One went to the Fuller Craft Museum and the other was installed in the Raygun Gothic Rocketship. I've posted a gallery of images from the construction process to my new Polymer Clay Beads facebook page...
My book is out in paperback now, and I've been posting a lot of photos to its new facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/polymer.clay.beads (as well as to my Flickr feed, and the Portfolio page of diffendaffer.com). For the occasion, I've been digging deep into the archives, including...
I'm back from my teaching trip to Europe and have been buried in the studio producing these retro rayguns. Check out this video and come see them at the Fuller Craft Museum from August 8th to November 18th....
I'll be debuting my newest workshop next weekend in Liechtenstein, and I'm happy to announce its U.S. debut this fall in Philadelphia. Recursive Beads is coming to the Philadelphia Polymer Clay Guild October 10th and 11th. It will be my second visit to the city...
It was an innocent time when humanity's apparent path of forward progress was most purely symbolized by it's inevitable arc upward and outward to the stars. Sleek and stylish rocketships carried our imaginations in soft force fields of anti-gravity cushioned comfort to a future where...