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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/constrained_ball_-_concept_line_mak.html
Constrained Ball...
People not only write with pen. Other than writing, often we draw lines with pen. Most time people use ruler to draw a straight line or free hand which results winding line. This invention is regarding a method to draw straight line without using ruler. Normally, ball point pen freely rolls in accordance with a ball that located at the tip of pen. This device is to apply a controlling condition to a ball in order to rolls to only one direction. Let’s draw a straight line with a ball that has restrained with directivity. With added ruling device feature, the length of line will be measurable. Even people can draw an exact length of straight line as desired. The total length of line will be indicated on the product by installed measuring wheel. The mounting area is made with a flexible rubber material to provide the best tightness. This product can draw horizontal and vertical lines in addition to 45 angled lines. By using this product, people can draw under lines, tables and desired length of straight lines.
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David Graham's Move-it prototype is an elegant and efficient way to move large boxes without the need of heavy equipment. Entered to win a James Dyson Award, Move-it is comprised of corrugated cardboard wheels and an adjustable handle that adheres to almost any box under 45 pounds with a bio-degradable adhesive. [via Geeky Gadgets]
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The quality of craftsmanship and the attention to detail on these papercraft models of the band Queen are truly stunning. [via DudeCraft]
We Are the Champions
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Disaster Dioramas! via jwz.
All your favorite disasters.... now in smaller paper form! Welcome to Disaster Dioramas (brought to you by Office Warrior - the first in your cubicle fun needs). Spitefuls is proud to soon present the first of hopefully many dioramas to spiffy up your cubicle and help alleviate work boredom through a fun activity using common office supplies! Perfect for your cubicle, office, or desk... it's sure to bring lots of hours of conversation and quizzical looks from fellow coworkers. And who doesn't want quizzical looks from their coworkers.
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SherwiniWilliams hired Matthew Sporzynski to make these paint chip paper sculptures for their ads. I noticed the same papercraft aesthetic in their video ads, but those appear to me to be virtual papercraft. It's interesting to see effects artists and animators getting into the "crafty" aesthetic, like in Viva Piñata and Little Big Planet, too. A few more Sherwin-Williams pics after the jump. [via CRAFT]
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/06/cool_free_cut-and-fold_block_font.html
Punched Out is a freely-downloadable TrueType font from Tobias Sommer. Cut on the solid lines, fold on the dashes, and glue on the striped tabs to create dimensional block letters of your text.
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Production took two weeks of eight-hour days and cost 5,000 yen. [via BoingBoing]
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/06/joel_coopers_amazing_origami_masks.html
Believe it or not, Delphus, the mask pictured above, is folded from one solitary sheet of elephant hide paper (don't worry, no elephants were harmed or used). Delphus is just one of Joel Cooper's incredible origami creations. Check out more of his work on his Maker's Market page, which includes a tutorial on making a grid, the foundation for making mind-blowing paper tessellations. You can also see more of his work on his Flickr stream. Below is Alberich, also meticulously folded from one single, uncut piece of paper. Stunning.
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/05/tessellated_kirigami_sculptures.html
Daniel Wyllie L. Rodrigues of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created a series of beautiful cut-paper sculptures using what he calls "polyflaptiles". Daniel, who holds a PhD in Design Science from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), packs his Flickr page full of cool geometric papercraft projects including these excellent nested rhombic dodecahedrons I wrote about in March.
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/a_whole_lotta_polyhedra.html
From the MAKE Flickr pool:
We at MAKE love Flickr user fdecomite, who specializes in beautiful handcrafted papercraft polyhedral. Mostly we get to see his creations individually as they're produced, but this time he's gathered all his creations together. Lots of good work! Click on the pic to make it big.
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Benjamin Parker will blow your mind with his origami tessellations. Pictured above is his Light Blue Tessellation, folded from one hexagonal sheet of dyed Zanders Elefantenhaut paper and sewn to a piece of mat board. Based in Connecticut, Benjamin has been making origami since he was 6 years old, and it shows. Check out the rest of his offerings in his Makers Market shop online and for more eye candy, check out his Flickr photostream. The detail on these pieces is astounding. Here's a closeup of another of his pieces:
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Rainbow in Your Hand is the work of Masashi Kawamura. It's merely a flipbook -- but when you flip through it quickly, a rainbow appears. [via Dornob]
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I posted to blog.makezine.com
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/geometric_kirigami.html
Kirigami is kind of like origami except you get to make cuts, too! Check out Daniel Wyllie L. Rodrigues's excellent kirigami geometric shapes. The top image is called Five Spheres of Persistence. Each of the five spheres consists of a cube, an octahedron and a rhombic dodecahedron on top of each other.
The bottom image is a rhombic dodecahedron with a papercraft sphere inside that Daniel made as a gift to his father.
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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]
PUMA F1 CAR-D
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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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http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/11/downloadable_matryoshka_calend.html
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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http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/11/paper_mushroom_sculpture.html
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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http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/11/how-to_papercut_portrait.html
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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http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/11/lego_for_muji_paper_and_block.html
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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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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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/how-to_make_an_origami_x-wing.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
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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August 20 2009, 2:00pm | More »
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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.
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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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