Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
Lenore of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows you how to make an elegant Japanese Paper Box. Lenore writes: Kits for Japanese boxes like these are often given in Japan as gifts to foreign vistors. Here in the states, you can sometimes find the kits in stationery stores starting at about $6. Alternately, you can make […]
Congrats to Cat Morley for launching her redesigned site, Cut Out + Keep. I love the new look! Here’s a great tutorial from Cat on how to make a simple needle holder matchbook that keeps all your needles safe and portable. Link.
Photojojo has a post on how pinhole cameras and how to make one out of paper, an altoids tin, as well as a Spam can. – Link. Related: MAKE Video Podcast – Bre teaches you how to make a Pinhole Camera and Darkroom – Link. MAKE – Tons of pinhole camera projects – Link.
Created by Nicola Enrico Stäubli, Foldschool has downloadable patterns and a manual to create cool DIY cardboard furniture for kids. – Link.
Sylvie at Chez Plum who has contributed to our CRAFT Pattern Podcast here and here, has also created a cute set of paper dolls named Lola,Tom, and Nina. Sylvie writes: I made them so you can move the legs, arm and heads by attaching them to the body either with a bit of scrap yarn […]
Hacks Editor Brian Sawyer has a fantastic bookbinding links roundup on his personal blog. We’ve featured a few of them before but this is a great resource of the top ten ones, including Brian’s own tutorial pictured above. Link.
DIY Maven on Curbly tries her hand at creating paper bead art which is perfect to create unique cards for friends. She says, “When we were kids, my sister Joyce and I rolled paper beads; little did we know we were doing something girls a hundred years earlier had done. Although Joyce and I made […]
