How-To: Keep a Pen with Your Sketchbook
Have you ever pulled out your sketchbook, only to spend several frustrating minutes digging around your pockets and bag for a pen?
Paper Crafts
Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material
You might not be aware of it but your home has an infestation of the most abundant, versatile, free and under-utilized crafting and prototyping material ever made. A gift from the consumer driven economy we overlook everyday.
This material is sitting cluttered in scattered piles in the basement and in crawl spaces, is buried within dusty mounds in the garage and is waiting to be discarded while overflowing in the recycling bin.
The material I am referring to is good old grade-A cardboard!
DIY Light-Up Marquee Letter
Design Sponge provides a rad tutorial showing us how to make our own light-up marquee letter that is perfect for a weekend home decor project.
Enter the (Paper) Matrix
Math Mondays is back from summer vacation with a brief break from all of the goodies discovered at the Bridges conference (more later) to highlight another must-visit site in the world of making with a mathematical bent. Today’s shout-out goes to PaperMatrix, an incredible compendium of all things made by weaving paper. In the mix are spheres and ellipsoids and polyhedra galore
Grab one of the First 1,000 Origami Folded Robots
Dash Robotics launches a fundraising campaign at Dragon Innovation for their bio-inspired origami folded robot.
Pineapple Party Invitation
Oh Happy Day makes me want to throw a party every week! This DIY pineapple invitation to a tropical picnic party is the newest of their fun paper party crafts.
Hyperrealistic Hummingbird Sculptures From Paper
3D illustrator Jose Suris IV creates elaborately constructed hyperrealistic sculptures from painstakingly cut pieces of paper, including this series of hummingbirds.
