The DIY ethos can be applied to just about anything. Doing it yourself could mean creating the perfect tool for designing more personal video games, or communing with nature to make strange new music. Or maybe it means handcrafting a terrifyingly realistic doll that looks like a vampire baby. This collection of stories seeks to explore the myriad ways that people are using that DIY mentality to make the world a little more interesting — and a lot weirder.
Creative Makers Week
Reimagining culture with a DIY ethos
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge
Pitch perfect plants
Jay Castello
Amira Virgil learned to mod The Sims 4 to combat the game’s poor presentation of Black skin
Ash Parrish
The popular deck-building video game takes on three dimensions for these gamers
Jay Peters
Artists are crafting incredibly lifelike monsters, and fans can’t get enough
Alexis Ong
It can be ‘impossible to find something that fully represents who you are’
Emma Banks
Joseph Wyman Brown captures modern people with 19th-century photography
Mitchell Clark
Come sail away with Hundred Rabbits
Alexis Ong
Craig of the Creek is what happens when DIY and imagination collide
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Alongside digital DIY tools like Twine, Bitsy has made game-making genuinely approachable
Lewis Gordon
Pitch perfect plants
Jay Castello
Amira Virgil learned to mod The Sims 4 to combat the game’s poor presentation of Black skin
Ash Parrish
The popular deck-building video game takes on three dimensions for these gamers
Jay Peters
Artists are crafting incredibly lifelike monsters, and fans can’t get enough
Alexis Ong
It can be ‘impossible to find something that fully represents who you are’
Emma Banks
Joseph Wyman Brown captures modern people with 19th-century photography
Mitchell Clark
Come sail away with Hundred Rabbits
Alexis Ong
Craig of the Creek is what happens when DIY and imagination collide
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Alongside digital DIY tools like Twine, Bitsy has made game-making genuinely approachable
Lewis Gordon