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Ben Wilson Design did this awesome F1 race car model entirely out of red Puma shoe boxes (for a Puma promotion). [via DudeCraft]
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Can't wait to cozy up to the new Apple iPad? Why not try your hand at constructing this handsome papercraft surrogate? Here's links to the front and back. It may not have access to your iTunes or eBooks like the real thing, but it does share its good looks and lack of multitasking, GPS, and camera. [via MacRumors]
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Matt Cottam, founder of Tellart, presented Wooden Logic: In Search of Heirloom Electronics at interaction10 yesterday. Here are my running notes on his discussions of sketching with tangible objects, physical interfaces to the iPhone, and heirloom technology.
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YouTuber 36AM3B has lots of cool deployable-structure models in his channel, including an expanding frame (visible to the rear in this video) made from 5 of the 6-bar linkages shown here. I got interested in Bricard linkages because of this recent model from Thingiverse user raju, which purports also to be a 6-bar Bricard linkage but looks, to me, an awful like what I've always called a kaleidocycle or flexahedron. And I don't really know enough about any of them to understand the fine distinctions. Can somebody help me out?
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Rob Ryan makes papercuts. It's an art, and he's good at it, and maybe it's slightly unfair that it took the gimmick of mounting one over a piece of electroluminescent sheet for me to sit up and pay attention. Still, it looks great. Kudos, Ryan! [via Dude Craft]
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Yesterday, engineer Takuo Toda, president of the Japan origami aeroplane association, set a world flight record for a traditional-origami paper plane of 26.1 seconds. He's had longer flights, but they involved the use of scissors, tape, or other non-traditional materials. [via Neatorama]
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There's something simple and beautiful about the construction of this paper city from Australian design firm Qube Konstrukt. The paper city was built entirely from folded paper to fit within a 2.5 meter square. It looks a modernized version of a model train city.

You can see the paper city come to life in this clever 30-second animated TV spot, which advertises what you can do once you have your own piece of paper -- that is, your diploma.
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I love this downloadable Matryoshka calendar from A Print A Day. She's omitted dates so the calendars can be used again and again, and each month has a different color scheme.
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Sean @ MAKE points us to this amazing video of an origami master making a lifelike mushroom from one piece of paper.
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I'm not sure if this isn't more rightly called "paper sculpture" than origami. True it uses only one sheet of paper and there are no cuts, but, well...watch the video and you'll see what I mean. Besides getting to see the mushrooms themselves, which are almost photo-realistic, it's worth it to see how a master with 20 years of experience moves his hands. [via Boing Boing]
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Paul from Dude Craft has created a wonderful, thorough video tutorial for creating these cool papercut portraits. I can't wait to try it!
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These new kits from Lego combine two of my favorite things: Lego and paper crafting.
MUJI partners with iconic building-block company Lego on a super fun new concept. Together they're encouraging us to think outside the blocks ... by punching Lego-sized holes in paper... Available November 27th at MUJI Japan - just in time for the Holiday season. US and European MUJI locations have yet to confirm stock.
I'll be coveting these until they reach the States! [via @allthingspaper]
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Interesting article from MacArthur fellow Erik Demaine covering the history of origami-style models that include curved folds. Shown above is "Concentric Circular Tower" by late UCSC Professor and noted computer scientist David A. Huffman (Wikipedia), whose curved-origami work was covered posthumously by the New York Times in 2004. The Flickr curved fold pool is chock-a-block with fascinating models of this type. [Thanks, Jon!]
More: Curved tetrahedron origami
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Eric Testroete, a 3D character artist from Vancouver, sent us this awesome self-portrait costume, an homage to Big Head Mode in videogames.
Papercraft Self Portrait - 2009
Eric's Flickr set
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Grant Thomas, of Making Visual Narratives, pointed us to this free, printable papercraft Zoetrope, featuring the famous motion photos of Eadweard Muybridge.
Free Printable Papercraft Eadweard Muybridge Zoetrope
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Laser cut & animated Muybridge horses
Grotesque Menagerie
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Johan Hybschmann made this amazing work in paper:
One of Johan's student projects, in particular, continues to astound me. What you're looking at in the images reproduced here (alongside Johan's answers to a series of questions I had posed over email) are painstakingly precise laser-cuts made into the pages of a blank sketchbook. As the book is opened and its pages begin to turn, these cuts work together to form a spatial representation of the single, highly choreographed 90-minute shot that is Alexander Sokurov's film Russian Ark. The book's "content" is thus a three-dimensional, perspectivally accurate space.
Find out more on BLDGBLOG. (Thanks, Tatia!)
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Michelle Osmond has posted a thorough step-by-step for this tiny paper Blue Leader by Alex Crosse.
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I love this elaborate cardboard dragon posted by Creativeman on Instructables. In fact, upon further inspection you'll see that he's got about 11 cardboard projects uploaded to the DIY site. Fun stuff!


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This pizza box is making a clear play at eco-design by calling itself the Green Box, but really, it's just more sensible and convenient than a normal pizza box. All it took was a few extra perforations.
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Boring day at the office? Here's a cardboard frisbee to throw around.
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This mushroom bunny template by Scherenschnitte is so adorable. It would be cute paper cutout to frame for a nursery or kids room. [ via CasaSugar ]
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I had a real retro-techno moment seeing this software box from 1986. I remember it well. It's Broderbund's The Toy Shop, a collection of papercraft models you could print out and cut n' fold to create everything from a catapult, to a carousel, to a steam engine (which used a balloon as its power source). Everything worked: cars rolled, catapults shot, zoetropes spun and flickered. Papercraft fanatics Mike and Lacey have put up all of the image files and build instructions for all of the models in the original Toy Shop collection. No C64 needed to access these awesome paper models.
The Toy Shop - 20 Marvelous Mechanical Models that Really Work!
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Here's my photoset of Hiroshima and the Peace Park museum, today is the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima... I've been there a few times, it's an amazing city, vibrant, modern - and a reminder that we are the only species that we know of that has developed the means to completely wipe itself out, it's a lot to think about.
The United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada designed and built the first atomic bombs under what was called the Manhattan Project. The scientific research was directed by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
The paper birds above are for Sadako Sasaki...
Ten years after the bombing, a young Japanese girl called Sadako Sasaki died from leukemia caused by radiation from the blast. Before she died, however, Sadako folded almost a thousand origami paper cranes. Sadako began her project because of a legend that said anyone who folded a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. She wished to healthy again so that she could run and play like before, and she pursued her goal with such determination that, although she died of her disease, she succeeded in transforming the paper crane into a symbol of peace for children all over the world. After Sadako's death, children joined together to raise money for a peace park in Hiroshima, and a statue of Sadako holding a crane. Today there is also a small peace park with a statue of Sadako in Seattle, Washington, and children everywhere fold origami paper cranes in her memory and send them to Japan and Seattle threaded on long strings to be draped over the statue. Sadako's story is used to teach children about the consequences of war, and the power of individuals to bring about change.
Also, check out...
Boston.com's photoset.
A review of Dr. Atomic, a opera about building the first nuke.
Hiroshima: Memoir of a Bomb Maker ... "The Gadget"
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This video from the awesome British toy store Grand Illusions demonstrates a cool collapsing mechanism, which involves only paper and elastic bands, and allows a rigid display to be set up in about a second and easily folded away again for storage. The French company that makes these is called Marin's. (Beware, their site is flash-based.)
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Amanda and Jenn of kind over matter have teamed up with a handful of bloggers to create this downloadable affirmation kit.
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Instructables user piaferre shows us how to slice up a 3D model of an object an recreate it in cardboard and putty. It looks very labor-intensive, but what amazing results!
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By way of fellow papercraft enthusiast Cory Doctorow comes images of this incredible castle, posted on Tokyobling. Tokyobling explains:
I had the immense opportunity to see this wonderful paper craft art installation by a genius of the name of Wataru Itou, a young student of a major art university here in Tokyo. The installation is hand made over four years of hard work, complete with electrical lights and a moving train, all made of paper! Clearly, this man must have created one of the most stunning examples of Paper Craft in the world? At the exhibition you will also have the chance to see a video showing Mr. Itou at work in his studio, cutting and folding piece by piece. The exhibition is called Umi no Ue no Oshiro (A Castle On the Ocean ), 海の上のお城. It is exhibited at Uminohotaru, a place which in itself is a major attraction: a service area in the middle of the ocean, right between Tokyo City and Chiba Prefecture.
A Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean [via Boing Boing]
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Spruce up your snail mail with these free wrap-around envelope mailing labels (dot pattern or mulitcolor pattern) by Melissa of A Very Chocolate Wedding. [ via iDiY ]
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With summer vacations, trips, and occasions either being planned or in full force as we speak, you're sure to end up with an external hard drive's worth of images from your adventures. There are certainly no shortage of crafty ways to display and showcase those money shots, and one super fun way is by making your own custom coloring book with a batch of images. This week's flashback feature comes from CRAFT Volume 06, the Play issue. "Color Your World" by Summer Block Kumar shows you how to make coloring books with your images in 7 easy steps. All you need is a computer (I know you have that one!), Adobe Photoshop software, digital photos of your choosing, a color printer, acid-free heavy-stock paper, a binding machine (or check out the plethora of binding DIYs online), and crayons or colored pencils. And besides the coolness factor, they make great souvenir gifts.
Check out the full tutorial here in our Digital Edition and start sifting through your pics.
You can also still get the feel of a back issue of Volume 06 in your hands by heading to the Maker Shed. Our 30 fun-packed projects include mix and match monsters, a flashy LED hula hoop, super cute Japanese "otedama" juggling toys, a thumb piano from found objects, a reversible wrap-around skirt, solar jewelry, fig wine, a tablecloth skirt, and cardboard chairs … and that's not even the half of it!
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Sarah Hodsdon re-gifted me a Cricut at Maker Faire last month and I'm excited to test it out sometime soon. Mrs. Penguin on Weddingbee has a great tutorial on how to create your own monogram stationery using the Cricut Expression -- a great way to DIY your own Save the Dates, invitations, thank you cards, and more. She's also got a video of the process along with her step-by-step tutorial.

Coming up next week with our DIY Wedding month, you'll learn how to create your own wedding logo!
Update: Since posting this I came across a review of the Cricut by Patricia of A Little Hut. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here.
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories show us how to make this rad geometric sculpture:
Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Paper Crafts | Digg this!George W. Hart is a professor at Stony Brook and is one of our favorite artists, making a wide variety of stunning geometric sculptures. On his of his many works that has particularly captivated us for some time is a sculpture called Frabjous.
When we realized that George had posted a template for this sculpture we dropped everything, grabbed the cardboard and hot glue, and raced to build our own.
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Matt Cottam, CEO of Tellart has posted his thesis from his degree work (Masters of Arts in Interaction Design) at the Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University. The thesis explains his "process of sketching and swatchmaking (prototyping) with both digital and analog tools, using both electronic and organic materials":
This hands-on journey in search of "heirloom electronics" uncovers several possible relationships between the digital, material and natural through a series of working sketch models. Through these sketches and swatches I have sought to explore a harmonious intersection between tradition and technology, and between natural materials, high craft and digital functionality. I have consistent evidence that the emotional value of handling wood as an interface brought delight to people, and I believe that these studies suggest many possibilities for product, material use and manufacturing techniques.
A link to the PDF is available at: Wooden logic: In search of heirloom electronics
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Joan from Nini Makes shares a template and instructions for making these cute fabric scrap ship cards that would be fun for Father's Day, or even for a kid who loves pirates!
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Helen Dardik of Orange You Lucky! is celebrating a "blog reader's appreciation day" by offering up three adorable bookplates for download. Check out her blog to see the other two!
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I grew up around newspapers (my dad was in the business) and I always loved the smell and feel of newsprint and ink. Jessica from How About Orange has a great tutorial for transforming bits of newspaper into adorable flowers to adorn just about anything. I think it could be fun to do this with a scraps from a paper from a significant date or event as a gift.
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No longer do I have to be homesick for my beloved Chitown thanks to the fine folks over at Wurlington Brothers Press, who publish the Build Your Own Chicago series of scale model postcards. Each card can be cut and assembled into a miniature paper model of a prominent Chicago landmarks. Inspired by the "Micromodels" designed by Geoffrey Heighway in the 1950s, all the Wurliington Brothers Press postcards are designed and drawn by Matt Bergstrom. Pictured above is the Red Line and the El Tracks. Check out their awesome selection. They even offer some as freebie PDFs. If you're of the NYC persuasion, they also have a Build Your Own New York selection.
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Thanks to all those who wrote in to share their love for origami and entered to win one of three copies of Paper Yachts by Nic Compton and Nick Robinson. The winners are commenters w15p, verticalfuzz, and Sixth Grader (who will donate the book to his/her school library). Congrats! Email becky@makezine.com to claim your prize.
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No longer do I have to be homesick for my beloved Chitown thanks to the fine folks over at Wurlington Brothers Press, who publish the Build Your Own Chicago series of scale model postcards. Each card can be cut and assembled into a miniature paper model of a prominent Chicago landmarks. Inspired by the "Micromodels" designed by Geoffrey Heighway in the 1950s, all the Wurliington Brothers Press postcards are designed and drawn by Matt Bergstrom. Pictured above is the Red Line and the El Tracks. Check out their awesome selection. They even offer some as freebie PDFs. If you're of the NYC persuasion, they also have a Build Your Own New York selection.
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Amanda Hawkins create an Illustrator template for DIY wedding invitations that fold up easily so you don't need an envelope!
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Download this free template for the Eat, Drink and Be Married Napkin Wrap from Style Me Pretty.
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