Where’s the intersection of craft and design? Online, an emerging hub is Handful of Salt, a blog turned digital magazine devoted to what founding editor Regina Connell calls “DesignCraft” – design-driven, craft-based work.

The term has a little elastic in it, but that’s the idea: Handful of Salt highlights a burgeoning group of makers who don’t fit neatly into a single category. People like St. Louis-based glassblower Amber Marshall, whose cheerful works put form and texture first, or Sarah Thirlwell, a U.K.-based woodturner who incorporates reclaimed materials like plastic cups and yogurt containers into her vessels for a fresh effect.

Connell started HoS in 2009 as a blog. “I realized there wasn’t a whole lot being written about or exposing things that were more design-oriented in the craft world,” she says. Then, perhaps the inevitable happened: “I fell in love with the people who are practitioners of DesignCraft,” she says. A blog no longer felt adequate; she wanted to create a resource, a reference point, a hub. Last April, Connell re-launched HoS as an online magazine with expanded coverage, including more idea- and topic-based writing (such as “Craft of Curation” Q&As), more international scope, and an even broader view of the field (for example, covering designers and makers of responsible fashion).

It’s an impressive product for a core team of three, plus regular contributors (none of whom, including Connell, are full time), but it’s not hard to see that HoS is a labor of love.

“We really want people to bring the artisanal and the hand into their daily lives,” Connell says. “That’s really why we started – trying to figure out: How do we create that connection?”