Paper chair, a chair carved from paper
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Here’s a neat idea from designers razy2. Instead of casting a chair out of foam or silicone, they decided to build one up layer by layer out of what looks like a giant Post-It pad.
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How-To: Holiday Fabric Placemats
Looking to add a personal and crafty touch to your holiday table? Be sure to check out this tutorial from the folks at ReproDepot. I love the effect of the trim around the edges. See how they create it here.
Big Papercraft Head
Gareth @ MAKE writes: Eric Testroete, a 3D character artist from Vancouver, sent us this awesome self-portrait costume, an homage to Big Head Mode in videogames. More photos at Eric’s Flickr.
Notebook based on “Jacob’s Ladder” principle
You kind of have to see this thing move to get the point. The brand name is RevolveR and apart from novelty, the “floating spine” binding seems to serve no particular function. Still, it’s pretty delightful, and seems to operate on the same principle as the toy commonly known as a “Jacob’s Ladder”
Transformers Soundwave costume
Pretty amazing costume build tutorial from Instrucables user Incrxtc.
WoW spellcaster costume with health and mana bars
It has LED health and mana bars, LED magic power in the gloves, and an LED, er, “touch-sensitive fairy companion.” There’s one Arduino for the gloves and status bars, and another for the companion.
How-To: Vintage Photo Gift Tags
The folks at Nice Package have a new tutorial showing how to turn plain metal-rimmed gift tags into stylish, more personalized tags with simple supplies you likely have on hand. They’ve even provided a free download of vintage images and prints in case you want to save time or don’t have images of your own […]